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Information for Diabetics

Topics: Health & Dietary
Content type: Article

Many students with diabetes have participated in the trip or led trips. These are a few things we have learned over the years to help you have a good week on the trip.

Tell us About your Insulin Regimen

When completing your health form, let us know about your daily insulin regimen. Are you taking insulin orally, spray, by injection, or an insulin pump? What type of glucose monitoring meter do you use? What are the temperature requirements for your medication and meter or pump? All of these things can help us place you on a trip that's in the right environment for you.

OA Academic Research

Topics: Outdoor Education, Research
Content type: Article
Academic Research

Class of 2027 Welcome Information

Topics: Frosh Trip, Information for Parents, Information for First-years & Transfers
Content type: Article
This is the general information for all students who will be participating in Outdoor Action Frosh Trip. More detailed information about your specific trip activities and an equipment list for your specific trip will be emailed to you in early August.

Frosh Trip Leader Application 2024

Topics: Leader Information
Content type: Article
Frosh Trip 2024 Thank you for applying to be a part of the 2024 Orientation Team.

OA Frosh Trip Leaders play a tremendous role in welcoming incoming students to Princeton and introducing first-year & transfer students to our shared values and traditions.

Training on trail may bring greener outlooks to campus

Topics: Sustainability
Content type: Article

The Outdoor Action Frosh Trip program is a Princeton University orientation program that gives incoming freshmen the opportunity to start college on a multi-day backpacking trip with their future friends and peers. Outdoor Action has always been aware of its unique opportunity to influence Princeton’s students, since it is responsible for giving more than half of each incoming class one of its first Princeton experiences. For this reason, Outdoor Action provides an ideal situation not only for students to make friends and start settling into college, but also to discuss issues that will...

Becoming an OA Leader

Topics: Leader Training
Content type: Article
Leadership Starts Here! Become an Outdoor Action Leader

Outdoor Action 50th Anniversary Celebration

Topics: OA Alumni
Content type: Article

 

Save the date for Outdoor Action’s 50th Anniversary celebration on campus
Friday, September 20 - Sunday, September 22, 2024

To celebrate fifty years of Outdoor Action, we have a special event planned for all OA Alumni and Friends. Join us for a fun-filled weekend of events on campus where all generations of OA alumni and current students can meet, mingle and share the important legacy of OA, leadership and the outdoors. Like any OA event this will be engaging, experiential and explorative. Any time that OA alumni gather, it’s bound to be a fun adventure!

OA Seniors Reception for Families

Topics: Leaders
Content type: Article

As graduation approaches, seniors enter a busy time finishing their experience at Princeton and preparing for their next adventure. Every year at this time I have a chance to follow up with graduating OA Leaders and many of them tell a similar story: Outdoor Action was one of the experiences that they value most about their time at Princeton.

The Effects of the Outdoor Action Frosh Trip on Freshmen's Adaptation to Princeton University: A Study of Pluralistic Ignorance

Topics: Outdoor Education, Outdoor Orientation Programs, Research
Content type: Article
The Effects of the Outdoor Action Frosh Trip on Freshmen's Adaptation to Princeton University: A Study of Pluralistic Ignorance Brian Wardwell
Princeton University
April 1999

This thesis was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

The Outdoor Action Diversity & Inclusion Initiative

Topics: Leader Training, Leadership, Leave No Trace, Outdoor Education, Outdoor Orientation Programs
Content type: Article

Creating a campus culture that values and respects diversity and encourages students to engage in civil discourse is one of the principal tenets of Princeton’s mission. The Outdoor Action Program addresses this issue as a core value in every aspect of our programming. Our primary vehicles are through small group experiential learning opportunities in the outdoors and through our student leadership development program.

The original proposal establishing Outdoor Action identified these core principles which have guided the program for over forty years: