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Providing academic support, tutoring, mentoring, and personal development seminars to student-athletes for their overall growth and success at the University of Kentucky.
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MISSION STATEMENT THE MISSION OF THE CENTER FOR ACADEMIC AND TUTORIAL SERVICES IS TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE ALL STUDENT-ATHLETES HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAXIMIZE THEIR ACADEMIC, PERSONAL AND SOCIAL GROWTH AND IMPROVE THEIR POST-COLLEGE QUALITY OF LIFE
Student Services • 8 full-time academic advisors • Tutor Coordinator • Life Skills Coordinator • 8 part-time academic graduate assistants
Academic Services • Advising • Providing campus information • Monitoring progress toward degree • NCAA Eligibility • Maximum Contact with Student-Athletes • Tutoring • Mentoring • Diagnostic Testing Program
Advising • College Advisors, as one of their many duties, meet with our students to assist them in selecting courses toward degree. • CATS Advisors work with student-athletes to ensure each student schedules classes around as many athletic commitments as possible.
Mentoring • Mentors come from a corps of veteran adult tutors, including retired elementary and high school teachers and full-time staff. • Mentors work with selected students, assisting with organizational skills
Tutoring • 25 tutoring rooms • Private tutoring rooms equipped with computers
Jerry Claiborne Quiet Study • Monitored Quiet Facility with 116 seats where students can work on class assignments.
Computer Center • 35 computer stations including PC’s and Macs
Career Resource Center • Helping undecided students • Cooperative effort with the Stuckert Career Center • Resume and cover letter assistance • Job Shadowing • Internships • Placement • Providing assistance with professional & graduate school admission • Career Athletes website • Over 10,000 companies have access to our student-athlete’s resumes
Personal Development • Personal Development Seminars • Coaches select from a menu of choices For example: Alcohol Responsibility, Gambling, Prevention of Violence Against Women (MVP), Cultural Diversity • Frank G. Ham Society of Character • Student-Athlete Advisory Committee
Community and School Outreach • 4,300 hours of community service • Habitat for Humanity • Hope Center • Athletics “Back Pack” Program • SEC Food Drive • Special Olympics • CATS Cultivating Character • Ronald McDonald House • UK Children’s Hospital
Other Programs • 5th Year Program • Post Eligibility Program • Mashburn Scholarship • Division I-A Directors Program of Excellence • National Student-Athlete Day
Student-Athlete Achievements • Jake Lewellen • 2011 AFCA National Good Works Team • Over 300 hours of community outreach • 2012 SEC Brad Davis Community Service Postgraduate Scholarship Recipient
Student-Athlete Achievements (cont.) • Josh Nadzam and Luis Orta – UK Soles4Souls • Josh named the 2011 N4A Wilma Rudolph Award winner • 2012 University of Kentucky Sullivan Medallion Award winner • Finalist for the 2012 John Wooden Citizenship Award
Academic Accomplishments • In 2010-11, 141 student-athletes were named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll • Fall 2011 • 15 of 20 varsity teams earned cumulative 3.00 or higher team GPA • 44 student-athletes earned a 4.00 GPA • 248 student-athletes earned a 3.00 GPA or higher