OUR GOALS
Provide first-year students with opportunities to forge connections
with other students, faculty, staff, and with CSU, Chico’s rich
resources and facilities.
Give first-year students the tools to help set clear academic, career,
and personal goals, and to develop strategies for achieving them.
Build foundational intellectual skills, including critical thinking, verbal and written expression, and quantitative reasoning.
Engage first-year students in a coherent learning experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and moral and intellectual virtues that form the basis for life-long learning and personal growth.
Lead first-year students toward new and diverse ideas, viewpoints, and people, and to help students explore a variety of opinions and values.
Make opportunities available for service to the community, thoughtful citizenship, and environmental awareness that can enrich first-year students’ personal identity and relationship to the world.
Our Philosophy (PDF)
First Year Experience
Welcome to the First Year Experience homepage! The FYE program is designed to help first-year students succeed academically and socially, and make a smooth transition to university life. Life on a university campus presents many challenges for new students, from balancing academics, work and social life, to balancing a checkbook.
California State University, Chico has a number of programs in place—in the classroom, in the residence halls, and through advising—to help students set clear academic and career goals, manage their time wisely, and become active, engaged members of the University and wider community.
A hallmark of the Chico experience is a residential learning environment where faculty, staff, and administrators work together to support student success, further academic excellence, and promote a spirit of community service and engagement. Explore this Web site to find out more about what we offer first-year students. Welcome to our community!
William M. Loker
Dean of Undergraduate Studies