Efforts to welcome incoming students has been an ISU tradition for decades. What’s changed is the type of activities that get students connected before classes begin in the fall.
Appears InThe Index yearbook documents that freshmen in 1955 had a convocation and box lunch, campus tours, a watermelon picnic, and church receptions. The highlight was an all-school mixer, left, where new students mingled with upperclassmen.
Welcome Week activities today are organized through the Division of Student Affairs. Events range from take-and-make activities and transfer student socials to live band karaoke on the Quad, video gaming, movies, live entertainment, an ISU spirit picnic, and glow-in-the-dark black light fun.
