Thompson Rivers University is set to welcome new students — as well as those returning — with its annual orientation.
This year, the Tuesday, Sept. 8, event’s theme is Bring Your Thing, a focus designed to celebrate the collective community on a campus that includes students from dozens of countries and with various interests and talents.
It’s expected 1,300 new students will gather that day at 9 a.m. at the Tournament Capital Centre Fieldhouse for a formal welcome and introduction to university president Alan Shaver and the deans of each faculty and school.
Academic open houses will follow for students to meet first-year faculty members — and others taking their courses — before classes start the next day.
Orientation includes a free barbecue lunch, handouts and prizes, grass volleyball, spikeball and music. Campus tours will be held at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.
There is also a back-to-school barbecue with a resource fair on services, clubs, athletics, recreation and other campus opportunities on Friday, Sept. 11.
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