Overview • Students Who Commute • Planning Your Commute • Building Your Community • Additional Considerations
Who Commutes • Commuting students are those who do not live in universityowned housing: across the street or an hour away. • 35% of first-year students • 80% of all SIUE students live off campus
Plan Your Commute: The Basics • The Crosswalk Culture: buses, pedestrians, and geese, oh my! • Getting to Class on Time • Leave early • 30-45 minute buffer • Consider time to park, walk, wait in line at Starbucks
Plan Your Commute: Get Help Motorist Assistance Program (MAP) offers assistance with:
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Dead batteries Escorts Lockouts De-icing
If services are needed, call University Police at 618-650-3324. Services are provided 24/7.
Plan Your Commute: Parking
Parking Services Office Rendleman Hall, Room 1113 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. parking@lists.siue.edu
Plan Your Commute: Parking • Know which lots you can park in depending on your pass • Red: Lots 4-12 • Brown: All red lots, Lot F • Silver: All red lots, Lots A and E after 3 p.m.
• After 3 p.m. with permit • All current tags can park in Lot F, 1, 2 and 3
• Open Parking • Monday-Thursday after 8 p.m. • Friday after 4:30 p.m., and all day Saturday and Sunday • Lots A-G and 1-12
Accessible Parking • Students who have state-issued permanent or temporary disability hangtags, parking cards, or plates are also required to purchase and display SIUE parking permits in order to use parking spaces for individuals with a disability on University property
Pay-by-Space Parking • Lots B and C are both pay-by-space lots • Additional pay by space parking spaces • Lot A • Lot E • Lot F
Building Your Community: SIUE Experience
August 20-23, 2020
Building Your Community: SIUE Experience Our Values Excellence in Action: Academic Convocation Wisdom in Action: Learning from faculty, staff, peers Citizenship in Action: Class-wide community service day Inclusion in Action: Photo at the Cougar Statue Integrity in Action: What's It All About?
siue.edu/experience
Building Your Community: SIUE Experience Your Challenge: Step 1: Get Yourself to Campus Step 2: Get to Know People Step 3: Get to Know Resources
Building Your Community: First Semester Transition (FST 101) • Working through the transition to college with peers • Faculty focused on your success at SIUE • Focus on: • Preparation for college-level academic work • Becoming an engaged member of the SIUE community
Building Your Community: Student Involvement
Visit getinvolved.siue.edu to learn more!
Building Your Community: Student Employment • More than 1,500 student employees @ SIUE • Why do students like it? • • • • • •
Essential skill development Flexible hours Department and faculty interaction Position related to major Opportunity to learn about workspace norms Skill building
Building Your Community: Student Employment • How the system works • 7/29, first day to view jobs
Additional Considerations: Academic Support and Success •
Tutoring Resource Center and Supplemental Instructions • • • •
Math Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Chemistry Biology
• Physics • Statistics • Economics
• Writing Center and Speech Center • One-on-one guided sessions • Assistance with speech delivery