Program directors and faculty should contact new students prior to class, just to welcome them and set up excitment for the first day. During the first week, admissions and the program directors should contact new students and ask how it is going.

Faculty should introduce self and novel way to have students introduce and share with class to start the class support system quickly. Syllabus, class rules, should be spelled out clearly. You can discard items from the first days instructions, but difficult to add sometimes.

While the idea of having a traveling Orientation is great. Going from department to department. Great care should be given that bottlenecks, delays and space issues are brainstormed prior to orientation.