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First Year Experience Program

Department Chair: Dr. Federico Velez

E-mail: FYE@auk.edu.kw

The First-Year Experience strives to integrate all first-year students into the University’s liberal arts environment by empowering them with essential academic, personal, and social skills. Students learn through holistic and experiential methods that encourage self-assessment and reflection.
 
Ultimately, students in the FYE program are encouraged to become empathetic leaders and active agents of change within their communities.

FYE Core Values:

  • Individual evolvement in academic, social and personal development
  • Holistic development
  • Collaboration and teamwork
  • Creating a safe, constructive and stimulating campus-wide environment
  • Active and experimental learning
  • Integrity, empathy and responsiveness 
  • Professional growth and development
  • Community service

The FYE program hopes to add more campus-wide programs as well as work in partnership with other departments and campus organizations. We aim to develop more community-based opportunities for students to apply interdisciplinary course concepts. By offering more professional development opportunities in the future, we aspire to inspire faculty and staff to promote campus-wide learning.

Faculty Statistics

Department: First Year Experience Program

Term: Spring 2015

Date of Report: 6/25/2015

Please note that the data in this report is accurate as of the above reporting date (unless otherwise noted), which is typically run one week after grades are posted for students following the Fall & Spring semesters.

Faculty Members - Academic
Count
%
Full-time 2 50.0%
Part-time 2 50.0%
*Administrative Assistants support multiple departments and are not included above

Student Statistics

Department: First Year Experience Program

Term: Spring 2015

Date of Report: 6/25/2015

Please note that the data in this report is accurate as of the above reporting date (unless otherwise noted), which is typically run one week after grades are posted for students following the Fall & Spring semesters.

Student Enrollment in Courses
Initial*
End of term
Sections
Enrollment
Sections
Enrollment
UNIV100 12 247 12 242
Grand Total 12 247 12 242
* Data as of census date
Administrative Grade/Override Processes
Count
Change of Grades**
Instructor Correction 5
Grand Total 5

**Please note that the above items provide the data available at the time the report was ran. It is expected that additional data for this category may be added until the Grade Appeal timeframe has passed.