Student Orientation Of New Student Analysis

Orientation of New Students: ETSU understands the importance and usefulness of orientation as they make sure that new students’ orientation precedes start of classes in the school. This is used to properly welcome new students as they learn more about the school’s academics, values, support programs, and other resources. The students are new to the school and eager to take every information needed to make them successful in the school which includes the dos and don’ts. Tristan Rettke is a freshman student at ETSU who may not be well aware of what diversity and inclusion is all about. Orientation is a good avenue and period to address the importance of diversity on race, religion, gender, age, ability, culture, personality, socioeconomic status and its …show more content…
ETSU administration should encourage faculties to infuse diversity in their classes to talk about this existing problem for better understanding of topics as they have better direct contact with the student more often. Faculties can use their referent and expert power to influence student’s differing feelings, beliefs and behaviors by infusing diversity topic in their classroom courses and giving time for conversation on it (cite). This will allow the faculty to be able to access the student’s level of ignorance and find a way to impact the needed knowledge to get the students on right track to understand the need for diversity and inclusion in the university and the country as a veritable tool for globalization. Increase in the level of faculty to student interaction have a great impact on students’ way of resolving problems, general way of thinking and interest in several life goal. Effective use of this means could have prevented the occurrence of what Tristan Rettke pulled off instead of being reactive to