Welcome! This orientation is designed to help you better understand what is expected of you as a student and to help you take advantage of the resources available to you in order to be successful while attending Spoon River College.

• The New Student Online Orientation is accessible 24 hours a day, everyday of the week.

• There are many links to important resources located in this orientation. Take as long as you like to review the information. Once you have reviewed the information, please complete the Orientation Evaluation.

• Please set your web browser to "allow pop-ups" while completing the orientation.

• Please use the left menu to navigate to each section of the orientation. Click on the 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons to navigate from page to page.

• It is important that you complete the evaluation in order to provide us with your feedback as well as track your completion of the orientation. You may print your completion results page and take it to the Student Services offices in Canton or Macomb to receive a free T-shirt (while supplies last)!

Spoon River College is a multi-faceted community college dedicated to providing students a quality education. Students have a variety of educational goals. SRC is uniquely positioned to meet the needs of all these students by providing:

• First two years of college and pre-professional courses in 30 college majors
• 30 career and technical programs
• Continuing Education
• Business and Industry Training
• Spoon River College serves 4,000 credit students per year in a 1,566 square miles area including Fulton, McDonough, Mason, Schuyler and part of Knox counties.

SRC graduates who transfer to other colleges and universities traditionally achieve higher grade point averages than students who begin their college careers at these transfer institutions.
The college participates in the Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI), a statewide agreement that allows transfer of the completed Illinois General Education Core Curriculum between participating institutions. This ensures transferring students that lower-division general education requirements for an associate or bachelor's degree have been satisfied.

*30 hours of courses taken with an IAI code will transfer toward General Education requirements.

Robert E. Ritschel, Ed.D.

Welcome to the Spoon River College website. As you begin to look through the many pages, you will soon discover that we are a comprehensive college offering courses and programs of study that will challenge your thinking, increase your learning, and fulfill your goals. If you are looking for an experience that will assist you in the workplace or aid you in preparing for a bachelor's degree, you will find it here at Spoon River College.

Although it may be difficult to determine by reading just a few web pages, you can be certain that at Spoon River College our faculty and staff are dedicated to ensuring your success. In addition to our mission in the classroom, we are also dedicated to the communities we serve. Through our two campuses in Canton and Macomb, our centers in Havana and Rushville, and our many courses available online, we have developed close associations with the public schools to assist committed high school students in earning college credit as well as business and industry in training their workforce.

College will be an opportunity for you to discover and discuss new ideas, an experience that can and often does result in a life-changing experience. It is our hope that you will take advantage of all the college experience has to offer - not just the credit courses for a degree or diploma but also the many clubs, student activities, performing arts events, seminars and workshops. You have probably heard it said that these can be the best years of your life - and it's all available here at Spoon River College!