New Student Orientation: Get Started

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Get Started
 

• Hooray! I've just received my admission letter! What should I do now? 

• • Check out the student handbook.
    
    
• • VIDEO: How to find it and why it's important (Rhonda Filipan, M.A.,M.L.S., Academic Program Coordinator, M.L.I.S.
    
    
• • Subscribe to the listserv for course updates, cancellations, job announcements and more.
    
    
• • VIDEO: How and why you should sign up for the listserv (M.L.I.S. student Kevin Steinbach)
    
    
    
• • Get your official Kent State FLASHcard.
    
    
• • VIDEO: How to get your FLASHcard (M.L.I.S. student Kevin Steinbach)
    
    

• • Get a parking permit for the Kent Campus. (You only need this if you're attending classes on the Kent Campus. Parking is free at the State Library of Ohio where the SLIS Columbus classes are held. And no parking permit is needed if you are enrolled in online classes, of course.)
    
    
• • Kent Campus students: go to http://www.kent.edu/parking/ or visit Parking Services in Room 123 of the Schwartz Center.
    
    
    
  • VIDEO: How to get your parking permit (M.L.I.S. student Kevin Steinbach)
    
    

• • Find the M.L.I.S. forms page. (P.S. You'll be coming back to this page a lot.)
    
    
• • VIDEO: A brief tour of some forms you'll need as a SLIS student (M.L.I.S. student Kevin Steinbach)
    
    

• Apply for financial aid.
  
  

• Apply for scholarships.
  
  

• Apply for a graduate assistantship.
  
  
• • VIDEO: How to apply for financial aid, scholarships and/or a graduate assistantship (Elizabeth Kudravy, SLIS Student Services Secretary)