Big Events
During this event, students walk through the Columns toward Jesse Hall to mark the official start of their time at Mizzou.
What is Tiger Walk?
This university mascot, named after a famous Missouri-born U.S. President, was named "Best Mascot in the Nation" in 2024.
Who is Truman the Tiger?
These students help introduce new Tigers to campus and Mizzou Traditions each August.
Who are Welcome Week Leaders?
This is the total number of events held during the 2025 Welcome Week calendar.
What is 140?
Leaders from this campus facility gave Welcome Week Leaders a tour of their 300,000-square-foot building and led group activities focused specifically on teamwork.
What is MizzouRec?
This late-night "block party" on Rollins Street serves BBQ and treats to thousands of students.
What is Midnight BBQ?
These iconic structures are all that remains of Academic Hall after it burned down in 1892.
What are the Columns?
Welcome Week Leaders assist with this massive logistical event, helping new students move into their residence halls over three days.
What is Mizzou Move-In?
This many First-Generation students served as Welcome Week Leaders in 2025, representing a significant portion of the team.
What is 43?
This center led a Welcome Week Leader training session on "Giving Wellness," addressing social norms and substance use data.
What is the Wellness Resource Center?
At this downtown favorite's party, 1,400 servings of pizza and 1,000 pizza cutters were distributed in 2025.
What is Shakespeare's Pizza Party?
Mizzou is widely recognized as the birthplace of this annual fall celebration, first organized in 1911 by Chester Brewer.
What is Homecoming?
Welcome Week Leaders participated in this many dates of dynamic training designed to prepare them to guide incoming Tigers.
What is a three-day experience?
Attendance at this late-night BBQ event grew significantly in 2025, with this many more students attending than in the previous year.
What is 1,800 students (5,216 total)?
This campus entity provided $20,066.92 in funding to help Registered Student Organizations host events during Welcome Week.
What is the Organization Resource Group (ORG)?
This 1927 tradition allows students to whitewash a campus landmark originally built from boulders leftover from stadium construction.
What is Paint the M?
It is customary to speak in a whisper and tip your hat when walking through this building's archway to honor fallen soldiers.
What is Memorial Union?
This is the total number of undergraduate students who served as Welcome Week Leaders in 2025.
What is 126?
Welcome Week Leaders were divided into this many small groups to support incoming students.
What is 105?
Welcome Week collaborated with this office to ensure a smooth transition for new students during their summer recruitment process.
What is Fraternity & Sorority Life.
In 2025, this event saw 6,000 students navigate across Stadium Blvd to Mizzou Arena in just 12 minutes to kick off the new academic year.
What is First Roar?
Students rub this bronze sculpture's nose near the entrance of Jesse Hall for good luck on their next exam.
Who is David R. Francis?
Training for Welcome Week Leaders includes workshops on this specific leadership style, along with communication and time management skills.
What is Facilitative Leadership?
This was the total recorded number of attendance check-ins across all Welcome Week events in 2025.
What is 24,574?
This department worked with Welcome Week planners to send catered emails notifying students about their assigned leaders and placed brochures in every residence hall.
What is Student Life Marketing & Communications?