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Welcome to Western Colorado University!

Transitions are both exciting and challenging. As you get ready to send your student off to college, we're sure you have lots of questions. This year the Orientation Team has crafted an "Online Orientation for Parents and Families" designed to empower you with information to best support your student's transition to Western.

We have designed this Canvas Course to consist of seven modules, which range from introducing you to Western and our campus values to what Western students need to do to help keep our community safe & healthy. We hope this self-paced course will allow you to take your time so you can retain as much information as possible, and even reference it later.

With that, we invite you to sit back, engage with this material, and feel free to reach out to us via email at orientation@western.edu if you have any questions.

A few notes about this course:

If you are using an iPhone, this course is best viewed in "light mode."
Most of this orientation is shared with the new students in their online orientation, so some of the content may be addressed to "students."

Feel free to reach out to us via email at Orientation@western.edu if you have any questions. Congratulations on your student's acceptance to Western. We cannot wait to meet you!

Cheers,
Myia Dantzler, Cami Carmody, & Brody Leetun
Your 2025 Orientation Coordinators

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