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Recent Sightings Orientation: Then and Now

August 16, 2016 ​
Incoming first-year undergraduates talk about the challenges new students may face as they transition to campus life as a new-student leader facilitates a small-group discussion during in a Student Orientation, Advising and Registration (SOAR) session outdoors at Union South's The Plaza at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on June 20, 2016. Sponsored by the Center for the First-Year Experience, the two-day SOAR sessions provide new students and their parents and guests an opportunity to meet with staff and advisors, register for classes, stay in a residence hall, take a campus tour and learn about campus resources. (Photo by Jeff Miller/UW-Madison) Photo by: Jeff Miller

In the final installment of Then and Now, photographer Jeff Miller looks at campus through the lens of incoming students.

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