Welcome! We're really excited for you to
join us.
I'm excited for you to be part of our community.
Wooo! Welcome! Welcome UNCG
we're glad you're here.
Welcome to UNCG. Find your growth here. (*laughter)
Welcome to the G!
First generation
college students, welcome to UNC Greensboro.
We are thrilled you are here.
Congratulations! Welcome home! Can't wait
to see you on campus.
The growth it's provided me and the
growth it provides the students it
serves.
Everyone on this campus is just
so excited about being here and the
opportunities that they have.  And they
really are willing to take on anything
you throw at them. So I love seeing
students grow, seeing them get to
graduation, seeing them take on new
challenges, take on new leadership
opportunities. I just love the 
chances that you get here at UNCG.
What I love most at UNCG is definitely their culture of care. Coming here, I
definitely felt like my professors and
all the faculty around campus are here
to help me. And I've never once felt like
I was going through college alone.
I've been here for 11 years and each year I'm so excited to meet new students.
I love to hear what they're excited about
learning. What they're passionate about,
what they want to become, and what they
already are. We have so many students
that have such different interests and I
like hearing from them about the things
that they do and that they care about.
UNCG is a great community. It's really
diverse in a lot of ways so when you get
here chances are you're going to find a
group of people that you just connect
with that kind of makes you feel at home.
There's more..it's more diversity and I feel
like my differences are appreciated more.
People are happy to be here. I love that.
I want to be around people who are happy.
I'm very happy so I think you'll really
enjoy that.
UNCG has given me every single
opportunity that I've ever wanted.
Anything I ever could have thought I
wanted to do, they've given me the chance to do it.
Entering college I definitely
felt nervous mostly because I was the
first person in my family not only to go
to college, but also leave home to
follow higher education so I definitely
felt like I was doing everything on my own.
It was excitement... nervousness... I had a
lot of questions that I didn't know who
to ask and what to ask. But I was excited
to figure it out and really put my best
foot forward and make sure that this was
going to be the best experience possible.
I remember being so excited and so
overwhelmed.
This is a new journey for
all of us. When I went to college my
parents certainly didn't know what
questions to ask or how best to help me.
And it took them asking me every day: 
"What do you need? How can I help?"
and through their questions I was able
to figure out how I needed my parents to
support me through this unknown, scary
and exciting journey.
Be aware that your students are learning
new things. That they may or may not be
able to articulate to you.
Try not to worry too much because there are so
many good support systems in place at
UNCG and they'll never they should never
have the opportunity to feel alone
unless they want  to. (*laughter)
Showing that you're
interested in what your college student
is doing is definitely going to help
them and motivate them to continue following on this career path.
I would have liked a
lot more care packages throughout my time here but in regards to making sure
schoolwork and things like that were
going well and making sure I was doing
great with my self-care and all those
kind of things they did pretty great in,
so just more, more money always helps.
We encourage them to reach out and utilize
the vast majority of resources that we
have on our campus from tutoring to
evening and weekend programming to clubs and organizations.
My parents were very
supportive. They were excited for me to
follow my passion and to go to college,
but they weren't always sure what that
meant. So they gave me all the support I
needed verbally and tried to help
connect me to the right people on campus.
If you don't know about it, just ask
what's going on. What are they going through?
How's class? How's everything going on
in their life? Just ask them about it even
if you don't know, because they want to talk about it.
You're surrounded by people who are
there to help support and empower you and so
ask questions, get involved, try things
out.
The best advice I would give would
be to take advantage of the resources we
have available to you and at UNCG there
are many of those.
To ask questions no matter how dumb or silly you think the
question is there's never anything too
silly to be answered.
You can totally be
a new person when you get here. This
can be the first time that you've ever
explored parts of your identity. Been
able to express yourself in a way that
feels most authentic and comfortable and
know that that's not disingenuous or
inauthentic that's a very natural
experience and lots of college students
go through that and experience that for
the first time when entering the college
setting. So come, be your fabulous
magical self, and be as authentic as you
feel comfortable being.
Explore and to learn about the opportunities that are
provided to them, and once they know
about those things
take advantage of them.
Reach out to anything. If you need
help with something, there's something to
help you.
See you soon!
Students, welcome to UNCG. We're so glad to have you here
and to be working with you. And parents
we hope you'll come back and visit and
see all all that we have to offer.
Remember, find your way here!
We can't wait to see you.
We are so glad you're here.
You belong here and we're excited to see you in the fall.
We're so happy that you chose UNCG and
we can't wait to see you this fall.
Go Spartans!
Go Spartans! YAY!
(*music)
