Cambrian, Laurentian and Collge Boral ready for annual influx of students

In Sudbury, three post-secondary schools are preparing for the arrival of hundreds of students over the next couple of days.

Many of them are in their first year of college or university.

At Laurentian University, about 500 first-year students are moving into residence, said Joe McGibbon, Laurentian's residence life manager. That's almost a third of the 1600 hundred students who live on campus during the school year.

"We find the best way to welcome them is to just be there when they come," McGibbon said, "especially peer-to-peer interactions with our student volunteers to help them move into their rooms and make sure that they're comfortable with their living accommodations and actually physically help them move items up to their room."

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Cambrian College will welcome about 560 students into residence, and about 140 students will move onto the campus at College Boreal.

Cambrian will be working to ensure that the the transition from home to school isn't such a worrisome experience, said college residence general manager Jessica McCulloch.

"Our residence students have probably never seen Sudbury before," McCulloch said, "so being sure that they're connecting with first year students at Cambrian, from Sudbury and being first year students out, they can combine their experiences."

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