Clemson Connect
Clemson Connect is designated for new Clemson students and is an integral part of your transition to Clemson life and the Clemson family. Clemson Connect is a series of activities and programs taking place before classes start to help you make academic and social connections, which will contribute to your success here. At the heart of this program are Clemson’s core values: integrity, honesty and respect.
Clemson Connect contains CU 100, a pass/fail zero-credit course that all new Clemson students are required to take. Each new student should have registered for CU 100 during orientation course registration. Your Welcome Leader, a current Clemson undergraduate student, will be your mentor for this extended orientation. A schedule will be posted when available.
The required components of CU 100 are:
- Freshmen: Convocation and Summer Reading are the formal beginning of Clemson Connect and the academic year. At Convocation, President Barker, University administrators, and student leaders welcome you to Clemson. Following this program, the author of the Summer Reading book will speak and students will break out into small groups for discussion of the book.
- Transfers: Convocation and Mission: Transition are the formal beginning of Clemson Connect and the academic year. At Convocation, President Barker, University administrators, and student leaders welcome you to Clemson. Following this program, you will participate in a transition program presented by Undergraduate Studies Transfer Programs and Transfer Council.
- Freshmen: Clemson Educational Profile is a proctored, written survey; students answer a series of questions that establish a baseline profile of their academic skills.
- All Students: Library Tutorial is a series of online research tutorials which introduce students to available library services and resources.
- All Students: New Student Dialogue Workshops are workshops comprised of 25 students, where students explore and process the significance and salience of social identity.
- All Students: MetaTiger is an online tutorial that shows the connection between development of metacognitive skills and academic success, and how to construct your ePortfolio.
- All Students: TAAP or Teaching Alcohol Abuse Prevention are peer-driven sessions where trained student facilitators discuss risks and high risk situations associated with alcohol consumption, laws and policies at Clemson that impact students, and skills students can utilize to reduce their risks associated with alcohol.