Welcome to the Freshmen Success Conference information site!

The Freshmen Success Conference is an annual conference hosted by the University of Maryland Orientation Office which addresses the needs of new and seasoned First-Year Experience (FYE) course instructors and the students they instruct. Specifically, the Freshmen Success Conference focuses on initiatives at the University of Maryland such as UNIV100/101, however FYE instructors and coordinators from around Maryland are invited and do attend the conference. This conference is FREE for all University of Maryland, College Park instructors and there is a nominal fee for non-UMD instructors.

This year's conference will cover the topics of:

Diversity as the 'root' of UNIV
Using online resources in UNIV (Blackboard)
If I knew then what I know now! panel
Participant programming

Registration deadline: July 18
Program Proposal deadline: June 15

On this site you can find out more about the program offerings, register for the conference, and submit program proposals. Please click on the links at the top or bottom this page.