Source: Carla Jones, Assistant Vice President-Student Life
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You have selected a report on the adjustments new college freshmen must make when they go away to college. The wrap and three sound bites follow in 3,2,1. . .
WRAP
1: A K-State expert explains how to make the most of that first
year in college
TIME :59
SUGGESTED INTRO: Many students find the transition from high school to college difficult. An expert at K-State tells us what new college freshmen and their parents can do to help new students get the most out of that first semester away from home. Lanice Thomson reports.
A WHOLE NEW SET OF RESPONSIBILITIES AWAIT NEW FRESHMEN WHO GO AWAY TO COLLEGE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. K-STATE’S ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT OF STUDENT LIFE CARLA JONES TELLS US WHAT THOSE NEW STUDENTS SHOULD DO FIRST IN ORDER TO MAKE THE MOST OUT OF THAT FIRST YEAR IN COLLEGE. . .
(Jones :24 “First, getting oriented to campus and finding out where the buildings are where they’re supposed to be and getting there. With that comes taking more responsibility for themselves, getting up and choosing the type of food they're going to eat, or when they’re going to eat or if they’re going to eat, and acclimating themselves to being more responsible for their daily lives than they were at home.”
JONES ALSO SAYS SHE CAN’T STRESS ENOUGH THE IMPORTANCE OF REACHING OUT AND BECOMING INVOLVED IN CAMPUS ACTIVITIES. . .
(Jones :09 “even if it’s just an intramural football team, softball team, etc. The more involved student is going to be one that is more satisfied with being here and being successful here.”
LANICE THOMSON, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY.
ACTUALITY
1: Parents can expect to see changes in their child after they
go away to college
TIME :36
The beginning of the school year is almost here, and thousands of students everywhere will be going off to college for the very first time. Carla Jones, assistant vice president of student life at K-State says first-year college students are very changed individuals when they finally make that first visit back home. This sound bite is 36 seconds and the outcue is “. . .trying to stress.”
(Jones :36 “They are sent to college to learn independence and when they get back home, they’re independent people. I think parents can expect a different child in several forms. One, is the child may or may not be home to study. They may be home to drop their belongings off and go be with friends. That could be friends from high school or new friends from college. We find that the end of that first semester people make different decision about when they go home, if they go home, and who they go home with -- which is part of the independence that we’re trying to stress.)
Jones suggests that parents be understanding and try to remember what they were like when they were at that age. She recommends making their child feel at home, but also giving them their own space.
ACTUALITY
2: What can parents to help their child adjust to college?
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Jones says parents should help their child get ready for college with physical supplies they’ll need such as money, housing and books. She said they should also help them adjust emotionally as well. She said it’s important for the child to still feel connected to the family, even though they may have moved away. The sound bite is 9 seconds and the outcue is “. . . they are changing.”
(Jones:09 “Helping them to feel they are still connected to them, they can still come home, that the connections will be strong even though they are changing.”)
ACTUALITY
3: New college students have a better time adjusting by remaining
on campus during the weekends
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Jones says she does not recommend students go home every weekend and says physically being on campus helps the student in many ways. This sound bite is 23 seconds and the outcue is “. . on the weekends.”
(Jones :23 “One, it gets them acclimated to the college environment. I believe the college environment is different from living at home. I believe the college environment provides a lot of interesting stimulation with different kinds of people, developing new relationships, developing a sense of what the campus is about, what’s offered here and they can’t do that if they’re not here on the weekends.”)