Posted by Douglas Fisher on Thursday, September 1, 2016 in News.

The 2016-2017 academic year has started and our faculty and staff has been eager to get to know the residents of Warren College.  With over three hundred residents living in Warren College this year there certainly are a lot of people to get to know, but that’s part of the fun of living here!

In our first week, we have had several events to help our residents to get to know the Warren and Moore community.

On move in Sunday a Welcome Back Warren open house was held in Dr. Fisher’s apartment.  This was a chance for residents to stop in and say hello and check out the space where many more events will take place this year.  Moore College has a similar event, organized by Dr. Lovensheimer and the Moore Graduate Fellows – Brooke and Valencia.

Then, on Wednesday night we had a large scale event, an ‘orientation’ of sorts for the residents of both Warren and Moore Colleges.  After the first day of class, the faculty and staff also felt that it was important for our residents to get a crash course in who we are.  This was a chance for our residents to get a quick introduction to both faculty directors – Dr. Doug Fisher and Dr. Jim Lovensheimer; the four graduate fellows – Brooke, L, Laurel, and Valencia; the Area Coordinator, Courtney and the Graduate Area Coordinator, Chris; the College Halls admin assistant, Jordan; and the RAs.  Residents were expected to attend one of the two thirty minute sessions.  After the information session was over, students enjoyed a dessert spread provided by Vanderbilt Dining and mingled with their peers.

Between Tuesday and Wednesday night, Dr. Fisher, L, and I also made our rounds to all of the floor meetings being held in Delbrück and Elliston Halls.  This was our chance to interact with our residents in smaller settings and introduce them to what we do here in the College Halls system.  With this opportunity we reminded our residents that we are here to help put on the programs that they want to see (and have the budget to help make that happen!).  We hope that this is the start of a fantastic year with lots of resident participation in and interaction with the Warren community.

This blog post was written by Laurel Hogan, the Graduate Fellow of Delbrück Hall.  The opinions expressed herein are Laurel’s, and do not necessarily represent those of Vanderbilt University.