Fall 2026 New Student Orientation Schedule:

Early Arrival Drop Off- Only registered students are allowed to drop off items early to their assigned room. Ideally, this would be better for students who live close to campus. The drop-off dates would be for first-year and transfer students. They would schedule a date and time in StarRez (Eastern's housing software) by making an appointment before August 1st. Early Arrival Drop Off Dates are for Friday, August 21st, and Tuesday, August 25th. More information will be forthcoming via email, so make sure to check your Eastern email.

Move-in Day- Incoming & transfer students will be able to move-in on Thursday, August 27th from 8am-12pm. 

Orientation is mandatory and will be from Thursday, August 27th- Sunday, August 30th.  Please see the schedule below. Campus bookstore will be open Thursday, August 27th from 8am-5pm and on Friday, August 28th they will be open from 9am-5pm.

New Student Orientation Schedule

Thursday, August 27th, 2026

  • 8:00am-12:00pm: First Year & Transfer Move In

  • 11:00am-1:00pm: Family Lunch

  • 1:00pm-3:30pm: Alumni Tent & Office of Disability & Access Tent

  • 1:30pm-2:15pm: Pinning Ceremony** 

  • 2:30pm-3:00pm: Bye Bye Bites for families

  • 2:30pm-3:00pm: Meet your Orientation Leaders for students**

  • 3:15pm-3:45pm: Living in Community for Residential students**

  • 4:00pm-4:45pm: Affinity Groups Find your Flock for all students

  • 5:00pm-7:00pm: Dinner

  • 7:30pm-8:15pm: Floor Meetings for Residential students**

  • 8:30pm-10:30pm: Movie Night

**denotes required session

Friday, August 28th, 2026

  • 7:00am-9:00am: Breakfast

  • 9:00am-10:00am: Beaker’s Breakfast

  • 10:30am-11:30am: Campus Connect

  • 11:00am-12:30pm: Lunch

  • 12:45pm-1:45pm: Zero Shades of Gray**

  • 2:00pm-3:00pm: Eagle’s First Flight**

  • 3:00pm-5:00pm: Food Truck Festival

  • 3:00pm-5:00pm: Office of Disability & Access Presentation with giveaways

  • 5:00pm-6:45pm: Dinner

  • 5:00pm-5:30pm: Blessing of Valley Forge Space

  • 5:30pm-7:30pm: Hot Dogs with the Big Dogs & Pep Rally

  • 6:00pm-8:00pm: Football Scrimmage 

**denotes required session

Saturday, August 29th, 2026

  • 7:00am-9:00am: Breakfast

  • 10:00am-11:45am: Community Service Project

  • 12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch

  • 2:00pm-4:45pm: Res Hall Activities & Campus Tour

  • 5:00pm-7:00pm: Dinner

  • 7:30pm-9:30pm: Silent Disco

**denotes required session

Sunday, August 30th, 2026

  • 7:00am-9:00am: Breakfast

  • 10:00am-10:45am: Belonging Gathering** (attendance for athletes required, non-athletes strongly encouraged)

  • 11:00am-11:45am: Grow Groups with Student Chaplains

  • 12:00pm-1:45pm: Lunch

  • 2:00pm-4:00pm: Carnival & Clubs

  • 4:30pm-5:30pm: Target Shuttle

**denotes required session