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The First-Year Experience (FYE) known in American colleges and universities as the
Freshman-Year Experience or the Freshman Seminar Program is designed to help
first time entering students to successfully transition from high school to college.
FYE programs often foster the participation of students in co-curricular events.
The project can last anywhere from two weeks to a full year. To minimize the
overwhelming effect of very larger universities first-time entering students in the
USA complete their first-year courses in a section of the university that is less
daunting than the entire institution.
While the origins of the program remain unclear, many people attribute the start
of the First-Year Experience to the University of South Carolina, which houses the
National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
and holds a series of workshops for colleges and universities to improve their own
first-year programs
History of the First Year Experience?