While Camp War Eagle is now well-known as Auburn’s orientation for entering freshmen, it was originally developed as an off-campus experience. In fact, CWE held its first session at the Alabama 4-H Center in Columbiana, AL, in the summer of 1994. The overwhelming success of that original session led then Auburn University President William Muse to request that CWE become the on-campus orientation program the following summer. Thus, in the summer of 1995, CWE hosted its first session of orientation for entering freshmen and their families.
Just as Auburn University has grown, so has CWE grown and evolved. Since that initial summer of 1995, scores and scores of Auburn students and their family members have flocked to Auburn in the summer for their session of CWE. Undergraduate students serving as Camp War Eagle Counselors have helped new students form connections to the Auburn campus, to its resources, and to one another.
Students engage in a wide range of meaningful experiences at their CWE session, including meeting with their academic advisor and registering for fall semester classes, learning Auburn’s unique cheers in Jordan-Hare Stadium, and learning to navigate Auburn’s ever-changing campus.
