First Year Experience Programs at the University of Arkansas is a collaborative effort developed to enhance the academic and social integration of incoming students through a variety of classroom and co-curricular activities. Faculty and Student Affairs professionals work together to offer special assistance and promote skills designed to help students experience a fulfilling, rewarding, and successful first year at the University, and to assist them in reaching their ultimate goal of completing a degree.

First Year Experience Programs supports and collaborates on several major initiatives: Extended Orientation Programs which encompass R.O.C.K. Camp, R.O.C.K Camp Adventure, and Hog W.I.L.D. Welcome Weeks; Parent and Family Programs which consists of Fall Family Weekend, Spring Family Reunion, the Parent Partnership Association, and assistance with Parent & Family Orientation; and General FYE Programs including New Student Convocation & Burger Bash, Help-A-Hog, Midnight Madness Shopping Spree, Diversity Leadership Institute (DLI), First Year Photo Project, AlcoholEdu, First Year Honor Society (Alpha Lambda Delta), and Common Reading Experience (One Book-One Community).