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Academic Success Center

Explore the array of services offered at the Academic Success Center to enhance academic development, reinforce student-centered learning, and promote student success. Benefit from opportunities for skill development, academic coaching, and course-based support.

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Academic Success Center

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  1. Academic Success Center Overview of Services

  2. Hixson-Lied Student Success Center

  3. About Us • Enhance academic development • Reinforce student-centered learning • Promote student success

  4. Providing Opportunities Skill development and course-based support • Achieve academic goals • Develop reflective learners • Experience peer-facilitatedlearning • Develop leadership skills

  5. Comparing ASC Programs & Services Course-Based Support Academic Skill Development overlap

  6. Academic Skill Development Academic Coaching • One-on-one meetings • Common concerns • Time management • Exam prep • Motivation “I got two A’s in college for the first time. I just needed someone else to help me get it together. They were great.”

  7. Academic Skill Development Psych 131: Academic Skills • 1 credit, S/F, team-based learning course • Evidence-based approach to learning & applying academic skills • Time management, stress & health, willpower, reading, note-taking “My study habits before a test have changed greatly. Before, I really only studied the night before a test just to review the material. Now, I start studying 5 days or a week before.”

  8. Academic Skill Development Presentations and Workshops • Classroom presentations • 4 topics • Request on website • Academic Coaching Workshops • Evening options • Schedule on website As a result of students participating in workshops… • 91% felt they had an established time managementsystem • 87% recognized how to set realistic goals for the semester

  9. Course-Based Support Tutoring Services • Consistent, twice a week sessions • Small peer-facilitated group (2-5 students) • Tutors high in overall effectiveness • More satisfied with their college experience “[My tutor] was very helpful and thanks to him I was able to get an Aon that class. After his sessions, I would get with a group study and I would teach them what he had taught me, and it had helped many people pass the class and earn a good grade in the exams.”

  10. Course-Based Support Supplemental Instruction • Free & voluntary! • Three or more 50-minute sessions per week • SI participants averaged + 0.25 higher GPA than non-participants during 2015-2016 • Three out of four SI participants indicated that participation has improved their overall academic skills “[My SI leader] was not only effective at teaching the concepts and ideas in fun ways, (often better than the actual instructors), but she was also friendly and approachable.”

  11. Online Academic Resources • Exam preparation, test anxiety • Time management, procrastination • Study skills, goal setting, motivation • Course specific assistance • Health and stress

  12. Time Management-Weekly Schedule Weekly Schedule Exercise Classes Work/Student Orgs Eating/Sleeping/Working Out Weekend non-negotiables Study time (at least 3 hours/day)

  13. Contact Us 1060 Hixson-Lied Student Success Center • find us off the 23 bus route • Phone:515-294-6624 • Email:success@iastate.edu • Web:www.asc.dso.iastate.edu

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