Welcome Week 2025

Kick off your university journey with Welcome Week! Join us for a vibrant mix of social and academic events designed to help you find your people, explore your campus, and feel at home before classes begin.

Event Details

Start Date: August 31, 2025
End Date: September 7, 2025

Overview

Welcome to the start of something incredible.

Welcome Week is your official introduction to life as a Lancer — a week packed with exciting events, new friendships, and unforgettable experiences before classes even begin. From high-energy faculty competitions to laid-back socials and essential academic prep, it’s all designed to help you feel confident, connected, and ready for your journey at the University of Windsor.

Whether you’re exploring campus for the first time, meeting your professors and upper-year mentors, or diving into challenges that earn points for your faculty’s team, there’s something for everyone. You’ll make friends in your program, discover the services and supports available to you, and start building the community that will carry you through your university experience.

It all leads up to the battle for the Lancer Shield — a fun, spirited competition that celebrates teamwork, school pride, and getting involved. So bring your energy, your curiosity, and your Lancer spirit — because this is more than orientation. This is where your Windsor story begins.

Stay tuned for schedule updates, event highlights, and everything you need to start strong.

Happening @ Welcome Week 2025

WW25: River Games

September 1, 2025 @ 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
Get ready to unleash your faculty pride in the ultimate Battle of the Faculties!
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Battle Of The Faculties

The inter-faculty rivalry has students form teams from within each major of study, earning points for participation and success in a series of events and challenges! Faculties include…

The winners will have a chance to crown their faculty the greatest, as well as receiving the Lancer Shield and a commemorative plaque that will be hung up in a place of prominence on campus. Also the winning team will win awesome prizes and achieve UWindsor immortality. Events eligible for earning points towards winning the Battle of the Faculties!

Check out the contest rules and prizes document below to see what prizes are up for grabs and how to win them!

Photo Consent Release

During each of our welcome week events, there will be many opportunities for which we like to take photos of our incoming students and feature them in our orientation materials (ie: websites, communications). In attending any University of Windsor Welcome Week Events, participants should be aware that photos may be captured of them. Attending a Welcome Week Event grants the University of Windsor the right to reproduce, use, exhibit, display, broadcast, distribute and create derivative works of University of Windsor related photographs or videotaped images of persons in attendance for use in connection with the activities of the University for promoting, publicizing or explaining Orientation and Transition or its activities. This permission includes, without limitation, the right to publish such images in the University's student newsletter or other student correspondence, alumni communications, on the University's website and public relations/promotional materials, such as marketing and admissions publication. These images may appear in any of the wide variety of formats and media now available and that may be available in the future, including but not limited to print, broadcast digital, videotape, CD--ROM and electronic/online media. All photos are taken without compensation to the protographed. All electronic or non-electronic negativees, positives and prints are owned by the University. If a person does not wish to have a photo taken at a Welcome Week Event, they will take the following steps to ensure this does not happen: Not attend a welcome week event Advise the University of Windsor staff member overseeing the event in person at the event and submit my request in writing to the email identified by the University Staff member i speak to

Welcome Week Schedule

Sunday, August 31st

Residence Move-In Day

Are you a student living in residence? Check your email for more information about move-in day!

Time9:00 am - 4:00 pm
LocationResidence Floor Lounges

Community Meeting

Details TBD

Time4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
LocationResidence Floor Lounges

Blue & Gold Bingo

Join us at Blue & Gold bingo to kick off the start of welcome week & for a chance to win tons of great prizes!

Time5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
LocationCAW Commons

Monday, September 1st

River Games

Come on out to Assumption Park and join your Faculty Team as you compete in challenges to win the Battle of the Faculties! Includes breakfast, lunch and freezies galore! Make sure to wear your best Endless Summer inspired gear.

Visit the River Games Event Page

Time11:00 am - 4:00 pm
LocationAssumption Park

Speed Mingling

Swing by speed mingling for fun games, ping pong, a photo-booth, and fry bread tacos!

Time5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
LocationCAW Commons

UWSA Tent Party

Details TBD

Time10:00 pm - 2:00 pm
LocationCAW Courtyard

Tuesday, September 2nd

PASS Program

Preparation for Academic Success in Science (PASS) is an orientation program for all incoming Science students. PASS introduces Science students to all available academic support, volunteering opportunities and social programs to enrich their undergraduate experience.

Time9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Jump Start

Looking for a successful September start? Come on out to JumpStart and learn about the tools and strategies you need to ace your first semester here at UWindsor!

Time10:30 am - 12:00 pm
LocationToldo 100 & Toldo 200

Involvement Fair

Attend our Involvement Fair and interact with campus clubs, societies, and resources. There will be tons of giveaways happening and a free BBQ lunch, so don’t miss out!

Time12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
LocationChrysler Hall Tower Courtyard

Tour Tuesday

Looking to learn more about campus or Windsor-Essex? Join one of our many tours leaving from the Involvement Fair DJ Booth at 1:00PM!

Tours include:

  • Campus Tour
  • Toldo Lancer Centre Tour
  • Best Study Spaces Tour
  • Aboriginal History Tour
Time1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Paint Night

Paint on upcycled vintage records, guided by an instructor or following your own artistic vision.

Time6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
LocationCAW Commons

Dirty Bingo

Join Sabin and the UWSA for another fun-filled night of bingo! Remember, this event is not for the faint of heart! Come win some hilarious prizes and listen to some wild stories as we play bingo, drag queen style! Doors open at 5.

Time6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
LocationCAW Courtyard

UWSA Tent Party

Details TBD

Time10:00 pm - 2:00 pm
LocationCAW Courtyard

Wednesday, September 3rd

Program Orientations

Get acquainted with Faculty and upper year students in your program by attending your program-specific orientation session!

Time8:00 am - 2:00 am

Welcoming Celebration

Bring all your ballots from this weeks events to enter into our draw to win $4000 off your tuition and other great prizes! Also, find out the winner of the Battle of the Faculties.

Time3:00 am - 4:00 pm
LocationToldo Lancer Centre

UWSA Tent Party

Details TBD

Time10:00 pm - 2:00 am
LocationCAW Courtyard

Thursday, September 4th

UWSA Tent Party

Details TBD

Time10:00 pm - 2:00 pm
LocationCAW Courtyard

Friday, September 5th

UWSA Tent Party

Details TBD

Time10:00 pm - 2:00 pm
LocationCAW Courtyard

Saturday, September 7th

Football Game

Details TBD

Time7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
LocationAlumni Field