Social-Belonging for College Students addresses common worries and challenges experienced by students in the transition to college. Because of this, we recommend students complete the program before they have formed an impression of their college and begun to experience campus life -- either before students have arrived on campus (over the summer), or during orientation week before classes begin. Colleges that do not have a new student orientation week can offer the program during the first week of class.
If colleges choose to offer the program before students arrive on campus, we recommend inviting students to the program at least a month before when they would arrive or earlier, to give students enough time to participate.