First-Year Programs

• Text - Our common summer reading for all first-year students.
• Essay Contest - Opportunity for first-years to reflect and write about the Text, and compete to win free textbooks for Spring semester, AND be the speaker at the March Lecture Series.
• Lecture Series - Four lectures given throughout the school year focused on the themes of the Text.

Loyola 360

This First-Year Student Retreat is held at the Loyola University Retreat and Ecology Campus (LUREC)

Dates for 2012-2013 TBD

Loyola Seminar 

Unique academic seminars are offered for first-years in the Spring semester.

First-Year Council

Our Unified Student Government Association first-year senators make up this council liaise with FYE to help promote the success of all first-year students.