First Year Initiative
As CUNY’s first comprehensive learning community program, FYI has served Lehman students for 25 years. Our award-winning, nationally recognized program model has been adopted at other institutions within and outside of CUNY. Freshman Programs’s two-semester model offers first-year students a supportive structure that promotes an interdisciplinary curriculum, faculty collaboration, and peer support to foster a great sense of campus community and to establish a strong foundation that will ensure academic success.
Some key benefits of the program are:
- Improving academic performance
- Building skills that are essential for academic success
- Providing a diverse interdisciplinary curriculum
- Fostering student-faculty relationships
- Keeping students well-grounded in campus activities
- Teaching students how to utilize helpful campus resources
- Raising overall student satisfaction
