Dates

• Existence: 1993 - 2010

Administrative History

The Freshman Academy (1993-2010) was an educational program for freshman at Brigham Young University.

The Freshman Academy program was first established in 1993 to provide instruction for freshman students in their on-campus residential units. Freshman Academy lasted one semester and helped integrate new students into the university connect them with campus resources. The program initially only included 5 percent of freshmen, but by 2003 involved 51 percent of the freshman class. In 2010 the program was replaced with a freshman mentoring program that involved all freshmen regardless of housing.

The director of the Freshman Academy was Patricia B. Esplin.

Citation:

Brigham Young University undergraduate catalog, 2004: p. 58 (Freshman Academy; overseen by a director [Patricia B. Esplin] and associate director [J. Gary Daynes])

Brigham Young University undergraduate catalog, 2007: p. 80 (Fred Pinnegar, associate director)

Brigham Young University catalog, 2009, via WWW, Jan. 7, 2010: Undergraduate Education (Freshman Academy; division in Undergraduate Education; one-semester program designed to integrate first-year students into the life of the university and connect them with campus resources in small groups or learning communities, a mentored environment in which upper-division students serve as peer mentors who encourage students to adopt good learning habits and also help students connect with campus resources)

Brigham Young University Freshman Academy website, via WWW, Jan. 7, 2010: History of Freshman Academy (experiments with learning communities started at BYU in 1993, and by 1997 Freshman Academy had substantially taken its present form) Freshman Academy Organization (division of Undergraduate Education) Freshman Academy contact (still overseen by director and associate director)

UPB files, May 7, 2020 (created in the late 1990s; strives to provide an academic experience for development of the total person; bridge the gap between high school and college by connecting students with "Aims of BYU education")

Perspectives, October 2004: p. 115 (Freshman Academy; learning communities initiative for first-year students) p. 116 (founded in 1993; initially included 5 percent of freshman class, expanded to 35 percent by 1998; in 2003, had 51 percent of freshmen)

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