{"id":3723,"date":"2026-07-01T10:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:23:32","slug":"mandatory-new-student-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/mandatory-new-student-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory New Student Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to OWU! Fall semester is approaching quickly, and so is your arrival on campus. Please take note of the following dates\/times for new student mandatory events!<\/p>\n<p><em>Thursday, Aug. 20<\/em>:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/becoming-a-bishop\/move-in-day-schedule\">Move-In Day<\/a>* \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/becoming-a-bishop\/opening-convocation\/\">Opening Convocation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Friday, Aug. 21- Sunday, Aug. 23<\/em>:<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.owu.edu\/camp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.owu.edu\/camp&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1747274034550000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3uez8XfS8bZqkLIkyDJbsJ\">Camp Oh-Wooo<\/a>** (Mandatory Orientation Event\u2014click the link for more information.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Monday, Aug. 24 &#8211; Tuesday, Aug. 25<\/em>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/becoming-a-bishop\/orientation-programs\/camp-oh-wooo\/monday-tuesday-schedule-all-new-students\/\"><strong>Mandatory\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Schedule for All New Students<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Wednesday, Aug. 26<\/em>:\u00a0<strong>First Day of Fall Semester Classes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Some students will have earlier arrivals (Summer Bridge, Marching Band, Fall Athletes, etc.). The person coordinating each of these programs will contact you later this summer with arrival information.<\/p>\n<p>** Camp Oh-Wooo is mandatory for all new students. That said, NCAA Fall Athletes do not participate in Camp these days due to their fall sports camp schedule, but will have mandatory programming on Monday and Tuesday before classes begin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong>\u00a0Orientation<br \/>\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong>\u00a0Brad Pulcini at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:newatowu@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newatowu@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to OWU! Fall semester is approaching quickly, and so is your arrival on campus. Please take note of the following dates\/times for new student mandatory events! Thursday, Aug. 20:\u00a0Move-In Day* \/ Opening Convocation Friday, Aug. 21- Sunday, Aug. 23:\u00a0Camp Oh-Wooo** (Mandatory Orientation Event\u2014click the link for more information.) Monday, Aug. 24 &#8211; Tuesday, Aug. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-students"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}