Tips for Success in College

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Tips for Success in College

• Parents and Students as Partners to Achieve
  Academic Excellence

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Tip 1 Explore your environment
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Tip 2 Have the roommate talk
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Tip 3 Balance your load
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Tip 4 Discover your best practices for learning
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Tip 5 Find and prepare your study place
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Tip 6 Find your niche
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Tip 7 Resources, resources, resources
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Tip 8 Talk to your professors
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Tip 9 Maintain healthy habits
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Tip 10 Build friendships
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Learning ProgramsParents Guide 2008

• 2008

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Parents are part of the equation

• Success
• Support
• Understanding
• Flexibility
• Guidance

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Parents Concerns

• Time management
• Adjustment to college demands.
• Reading, writing and daily assignments.
• Understanding of content in a particular class.
• Performance on a test, quiz or assignment.

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More concerns

• Communication skills with a particular or all
  professors.
• ESL challenges with course expectations and
  communication.
• Selection of classes dont match interests or
  strengths.
• Selection of a major or minor and following (or
  not following) a pre-professional track.
• Work load that seems overwhelming.

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Learning Programs Areas of Support

• Individual learning strategies and plans
• Peer tutoring for specific courses
• Group learning sessions for specific courses
• Individual and group ESL tutorials
• Study aid technology training
• Referrals to additional support aresas across
  campus

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Learning Programs Mission

• The mission of Learning Programs in the Office
  for Undergraduate Education is to provide
  academic support to enrich the undergraduate
  experience in Emory College. These services build
  skills and strategies, promote collaborative
  learning and support faculty initiatives to
  develop Emory students as intellectually engaged
  scholars and citizens.

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Learning Programs Faculty Staff
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EPASS

• Provides free one-on-one support for specific
  classes with faculty recommended upperclassmen.
• Helps students review content and build study
  skills for specific courses.
• May be used periodically or regularly throughout
  the semester and according to the students own
  schedule using our online scheduling program.

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Collaborative Learning

• Supplemental Instruction
• Collaborative Learning
• (small groups that work together to review
  content and solve problems)
• Offered in historically difficult course
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Physics

• Roundtables
• Discussion groups
• Language Practice
• Application of skills
• Visual Arts
• Languages
• Psychology

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Learning Specialists

• Promote positive learning strategies for
  students.
• Assist students to become engaged learners inside
  and outside of the classroom.
• Identify students learning needs and styles to
  increase self-awareness.
• Support students to become effective independent
  learners by evaluating students study processes
  and skills.
• Create individualized plans for academic success.
• Teach transferable skills such as time and
  project management, reading and note-taking
  skills, test-taking skills and communication
  skills.

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The ESL Program

• Provides individual tutorial support for students
  who speak English in addition to their native
  language.
• Facilitates study groups that address specific
  academic skills sets such as academic reading,
  writing, listening and note-taking.
• Offers self access ESL resources (books and
  software).
• Guides and supports faculty to help make lectures
  and assignments more accessible to ESL students.

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Learning Enhancement Lab (LEL)

• Provides learning technologies to improve
  productivity and promote better learning
  practices and efficiency.
• Assists students in determining which technology
  best serves their needs.
• Trains students in the use of these technologies
  and offers ongoing support.

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Contact Learning Programs

• Telephone [phone] Fax [phone]
• Website www.epass.emory.edu
• Location SAAC Building, Clairmont Campus
• 1946 Starvine Way, Suite 310