University College serves as the academic home for students entering IUPUI. Its academic offerings and support resources have been developed expressly to ease new students" transition to college-level work, encourage student engagement with learning and with the IUPUI campus, and enhance student persistence and success. With 64 appointed faculty members drawn from every undergraduate academic unit on the campus, UC oversees IUPUI"s First-Year Experience programs, sponsors a number of pre-college programs, coordinates major campus initiatives to improve undergraduate retention and learning, and collaborates closely with such units as the Office for Professional Development, the Office of Information Management and Institutional Research, the Office for Student Life and Diversity, and the 21 other IUPUI schools.
Today, University College sponsors student and parent orientation programs, houses a branch of the University Writing Centers and is home to the following units:
