1. Welcome Exercise Science Majors

2. A few facts about your peers Total Current Exercise Science Majors: ◦206

3. A few facts about your peers Total Current Exercise Science Freshmen: ◦36 Average Freshman GPA ◦3.14

4. A few facts about your peers Total Current Ex. Science Sophomores: ◦35 Average Sophomore GPA ◦3.24

5. A few facts about your peers Total Current Exercise Science Juniors: ◦65 Average Junior GPA ◦3.29

6. A few facts about your peers Total Current Exercise Science Seniors: ◦59 Average Senior GPA ◦3.32 Overall Average GPA: 3.26

7. Things I might want you to know about? Faculty Quality Program Difficulty Opportunities for Professional Advancement Classes you’ll love, classes you’ll...like Social Life

8. Things you might want to know about? Social Life Classes you’ll love, classes you’ll...like Faculty Quality Program Difficulty Opportunities for Professional Advancement

9. GPA requirements to stay in ES Don’t go below 2.5 ◦Probation ◦Trying to get readmitted…internal application process

10. Honors Program GPA 3.5+ (then keep it at 3.3+) Early registration Honors classes Honors designations (many of them, including “honors in the major”) Research and other awards

11. Exercise Science Club Contact Me (faculty advisor) ◦Or one of the student officers (see bulletin board outside ES suite of offices)  Hayley Marlier  Lindsey Klein  Tom Atiyeh  Pat Ignarski  Eric Walsh ◦It’s on facebook – one of the officers will add you if you ask ◦$20 for the year (last year anyway) ◦Site visits, paintball, student/faculty socials, etc… Learn more at the “KNR kickoff” Date TBA (MCH Instructional Gym)

12. Study Abroad opportunities Contact person: Dr. Barb Schlatter (beschla@ilstu.edu)beschla@ilstu.edu ◦Limerick Exchange  Full semester, spring each year.  Spring 2016 will be the fourth year. We sent two students each previous year. ◦Poland, Russia, others  A few weeks at the end of the spring semester.  See Dr. Schlatter for details

13. Academic stuff… Bone scholarship ◦Highest academic accolade at ISU ◦Goes to those with high GPA, but also high university/community service ◦If you want it (of course you do) – think about how you can increase your service – now.

14. Your advisors and faculty Advisors: ◦Mindy Kinney (A-K), Daphyne Walker (L-Z) Faculty – from the web. Many photos very old!