Journal of College Orientation, Transition, and Retention

Student Satisfaction With Orientation

A Program Assessment and Cultural Stratification

Daniel P. Nadler

Michael T. Miller

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/jcotr.v5i1.2466

Keywords: Transition, campus environment, Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS), Standards for New Student Orientation, academic students, collegiate students, vocational students, nonconformist students, populations, programming needs

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Abstract

The Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) provides a valuable benchmark for orientation effectiveness, and this case study was subsequently conducted to develop an understanding of how a relatively traditional four-day orientation program addresses the 20 CAS purposes for an orientation program. Making us of the 1996 entering class at Tulane University, the case study provides an heurisic and useful method for evaluating an orientation program.