The New Student Center

Angela Kavanagh, Director Namm Hall, room N 104 300 Jay Street

Phone: 718.260.5013

Website: http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/nsc/

The New Student Center offers a program of academic advisement and career and transfer counseling for new students. Carefully trained advisors and career guidance counselors encourage students to see the connections between courses taken in their first semester and their chosen careers or professions.

Students are encouraged to act on their strengths and solidify plans for the future. They are guided through the registration process and given information that will help them with not only their first-semester registration but subsequent registrations at City Tech as well.

Academic Advisement is one of the first offices a student will visit on his or her registration path. Here, students are provided with expert assistance in selecting courses for their first semester. A professional advisor meets with each student individually and explains the connection each course has with that student’s major area. The registration process is not treated as a simple exercise in course scheduling, but rather a process designed to encourage student growth and development. By relying less on the mechanical aspects of advisement, the broader context of a student’s needs are addressed and discussed by the advisor and the advisee. Both transfer students and freshmen come through Academic Advisement in the New Student Center.

The Career and Transfer Services area guide students along a path of understanding and exploration of life and career goals and translating these insights into a viable plan for academic success. By integrating a student’s goals and aspirations into the registration process, career counselors allow students to realistically assess their first-semester needs.

These needs are then synthesized into the broader context of their educational career. Once students can really understand their goals, they can begin to explore the options open to them.

In keeping with this holistic approach to advisement and registration, both advisors and counselors also fulfill the role of referral agents connecting students to the many other offices within the Enrollment Management umbrella and the rest of the College. In recognizing the New Student Center as the starting point as well as a source of continuing information, students view it as a point of stability and reassurance throughout their years at City Tech.