{"id":365934,"date":"2026-07-08T22:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/365934\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:12:20","slug":"new-student-orientation-brings-new-students-energy-to-msu-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/365934\/","title":{"rendered":"New Student Orientation brings new students, energy to MSU Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Student Orientation at Midwestern State University welcomed 403 students and families to three sessions, including 397 first-time freshmen for Fall 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Students from four different states were welcomed, with most coming from the Wichita Falls area and Dallas-Fort Worth. The majority of attending students have a strong interest in healthcare, business, education, and applied STEM fields. Radiologic Technology and Nursing were first and second among incoming students\u2019 academic interest choices.<\/p>\n<p>One attending parent shared this with MSU Texas leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHands down, even though I am an alum, MSU is AMAZING! They made everyone feel so welcome, and although a state university, it felt so close and personal, with so much attention to detail! They had an entire program for the students, then a separate program for the parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cammie Dean, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs, said she appreciated the hard work every area of the MSU Texas campus put into meeting the needs of the new students.<\/p>\n<p>MSU Texas looks forward to welcoming more new students to campus in July and August. <a href=\"https:\/\/msutexas.edu\/orientation\/fall-orientation.php#i_am_beginning_first_year-hdg-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Student Orientation<\/a> dates are July 10 (full), July 15, July 17, August 5, and August 7.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Large group inside at New Student Orientation\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/orientation-1a.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;\" width=\"1195\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Large group at New Student Orientation make their way to the next porition of the campus tour\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/orientation-2.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px;\" width=\"1109\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Large group of students stand in front of the Prothro-Yeager College\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/orientation-5.jpg\" width=\"1109\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Student Orientation at Midwestern State University welcomed 403 students and families to three sessions, including 397 first-time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[129620,22565,111802,129619,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-365934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-fall-2026-students","tag-midwestern-state-university","tag-msu-texas","tag-new-student-orientation","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}