Each new student at NEIU has to go through period of transition either from the high school to university or from other environment to NEIU. Some students deal very well with these changes. Others encounter difficulties.

   
  Research has shown that students who take part in extracurricular events at a university tend to develop a sense of connectedness and desire to persist at that institution. Courses in the FYE Colloquium series will reinforce information about the University provided to incoming freshmen during advising and orientation by making connections between their class (as a microcontext) and general university requirements and expectations (as a macrocontext), both in and out of the classroom. In so doing, students will be able to understand the purpose of the General Education curriculum (see Academics above) and the need for becoming engaged students at the University.
   Northeastern Illinois University offers some tools which are aimed as making new student transition easier.