Welcome back, everyone!
If you’re new to the College of Southern Nevada, or just like free food and good times, check this out: We’re planning all kinds of fun stuff for this week.
We’re going to have music and barbecue and student clubs and dudes in ties cooking things at all three main campuses just for the heck of it.
“We’ll be serving food with a smile and a few kind words to help everybody off to a great start to the semester,” said Darren Divine, CSN’s vice president of academic affairs.
Divine and others will be hanging out at all three main CSN campuses this week in a meet and greet event we like to call CSN Connections.
There will be booths and tables where students can meet their deans, department chairs, and student government reps, get information about student clubs, and learn all about the services CSN offers. Services like free tutoring, for example. Childcare. Stuff like that.
Students at last year’s CSN Connections event explore what’s available at the college.
Also, did we mention free food?
“We’ll give away some free swag, too,” said Dave Morgan, the college’s director of marketing.
The point of the event is this: Students who like their college, who know a thing or two about the services and clubs it offers, are more likely to do well in that college.
Make sense? Of course it does. Here at CSN, we’re all about making sense.
“It should be one big good time,” said James McCoy, CSN’s associate vice president for academic success.
He said there’s plenty of research out there showing that students who feel connected to their college tend to stick around that college. Students who stick around, of course, are a whole lot more likely to graduate.
That’s what we want: you graduating.
“We’re trying to create a sense of community,” McCoy said.
To that end, here’s what we’ll be doing. From 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, we’ll be at the main entrance on the Cheyenne campus with free food and all the other cool stuff. We’ll do it again Wednesday at the B building on the Henderson campus, and again Thursday at the D building on the West Charleston campus. Students should stop by, learn about the clubs and services, and meet some cool people.
Each time a student stops at a booth and chats with someone, we’ll give the student a stamp proving that he or she did it. Get a few stamps – which cost nothing, remember – and we’ll give you a bunch of free food.
“Students are the reason for our very existence,” Divine said. “I can think of nothing more important than welcoming them back to a new semester, and helping them connect with our college community.”
Deal?
Here are the times and locations again:
- Tuesday: 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., the main entrance on the Cheyenne campus
- Wednesday: 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the B building on the Henderson campus
- Thursday: 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the D building on the West Charleston campus
We hope to see you there.