These Jump Start opportunities will enable you to meet other new students, explore the scenic beauty of the Pacific Northwest, and lend a helping hand in your new community in a smaller, more intimate setting before the Opening Days orientation involving all new students.
Quick Facts
- Who: All incoming first-year students and transferring students
- What: 4 days of student-led activities planned around an identity and/or affinity theme designed to get you connected at WU before classes begin
- When: August 18–21, 2023
- Where: All programs start and end on campus
- Steppin' Out activities and accommodations are off-campus.
- linQ+, Ohana and S3 will live on campus and activities will be in/around the Salem and Portland metro area
- Why: Begin before the beginning!
- Build a COMMUNITY to rely on when you’re a Bearcat
- Establish the CONFIDENCE in yourself to accomplish hard things
- Develop more TOOLS to support your well-being at Willamette
- Examine your new CULTURE of Willamette Bearcats
- How: Registration opens June 1, with financial assistance requests available through June 19. Registration closes June 26 and acceptance notifications are delivered by June 29.
- Cost: Varies by program. Financial assistance may be available and participants may pay in installments