Reaching Your Potential
Merrimack offers several programs aimed at helping and supporting you to reach your full academic and personal potential at college and beyond.
Compass Program
Provides the skills and knowledge first-year students will need to reach their full academic potential.
First-Year Experience
Supports students during their critical first semester of matriculation through self-exploration, active engagement and understanding of the world.
The Dean’s Forum
Also known as “The Dean’s Lunch Group,” this monthly gathering creates an opportunity for a select group of freshmen to connect with deans, associate deans, vice provosts and the provost for intellectual exchange.