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InroaDS
News from the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies

Volume 2 Issue 4 December 1, 2016

In This Issue Hundreds of Students, Parents
Get to Know UNO
• Hundreds of Students, Parents

Get to Know UNO

• Five Ways to Celebrate Winter They began arriving as early as 8 a.m., though events weren’t sched-

Break in Louisiana

• Moving On uled to kick off for another two hours. Potential students and their par-
• In the Spotlight: Dr. Robert ents, all eager to learn what the University of New Orleans could do for
them, began migrating toward check-in tables just before 9 o’clock. Dr.
Dupont Gerard Williams, former IDS academic advisor and current Director for
• Dan’s Depot First Year Advising, manned one of the tables.
• Pathways to Interdisciplinarity
• Our Top Event Picks for “It looks like it’s going to be a good turnout,” Williams said between
directing students to the UC Ballroom and handing them schedules for
December

the day’s events-open house day, Get to Know UNO Day.
Brett Hornsby, Assistant Director of Orientation and Communica-
tions, agreed.
“Sign-in officially started at 9 o’clock,”
Hornsby said. “By 9:05, 77 students had already
checked in.”
According to Hornsby, more than 2,200 stu-
dents and their guests had pre-registered.
“They’re coming from New Jersey, Cali-
fornia, Colorado, Alabama, Mississippi, Flori-
da, and . . . Oh, I can’t remember all the states,”
Hornsby said, smiling.
He had plenty to smile about. Compared
to last year’s numbers, his efforts and those of
others involved in recruiting were paying off. In
2015, 1, 115 people registered for the event, and
Photo courtesy of UNO Admissions/Facebook. 277 actually attended. Hornsby credited several
Hundreds packed the UC Ballroom new recruiting approaches for this year’s dou-
for the Get to Know UNO welcoming ceremony. bled registration-from a revamped email noti-

fication and confirmation system to recruiters who “crisscrossed” the country getting the word out to increased
focus on attracting local students.
“I think a lot of students from the New Orleans area think that they know UNO because it’s a household
name,” Hornsby said. “But I challenge those students to come to campus and bring their parents and see what
UNO has to offer.”
Hundreds accepted the challenge. A sea of people sat in the UC ballroom for the welcoming ceremony.
Throngs of them visited tables set up by academic, administrative, and athletic departments and student organi-

See ‘Get to Know’ on page 4