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First

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Experience
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Program’s Mission Statement:
The mission of the First Year Experience Program is provide support to first year students in a cohort structure to increase student success and retention.

Program’s Description:
The First Year Experience (FYE) program is to aid first-year, degree-seeking students in their transition to Los Angeles City College, to expose students to the broad range of educational oppotunities, and to integrate new students into the college community in order to enrich their first year experience.

Program’s Learning Outcomes:
The student will:

  1. Be familiar with student services and academic resources on campus; actively use those resources and interact with staff.
  2. Interact effectively with peers in social settings and through educationally purposeful student activities.
  3. Refine short-term and long-term academic goals; learn about career management; establish more specific career goals.
  4. Achieve a higher competency in writing, note-taking, active reading, critical thinking and quantitative reasoning to be able to master college-level work.