First Year Experience & Family Programs

The Student Success program is dedicated to ensuring students’ smooth transition into Longwood and through their Student Success. This is accomplished through summer orientation. Complimenting summer orientation is an extended August orientation program (New Lancer Days) that partners new students with a Peer Mentor, an upperclassman well-versed with Longwood University’s resources and are trained to support students tackling transitional issues, and a Student Success Coach, a faculty or staff member who is available to help students navigate campus resources and transitional issues beyond the capability of the Peer Mentor. Both the Peer Mentor and the Student Success Coach continue to support students throughout the fall semester.

The major thrust of Student Success is to facilitate student development toward independence and civic responsibility. The Student Success program also provides an exemplary leadership opportunity for over 60 student peer mentors to facilitate topical programs on subjects which impact new students.