Meeting Topics
Whether it is a drop-in meeting or scheduled one-on-one meetings, the focus of our discussions are highly dependent on the students needs.Some of the topics we will discuss during our meetings include:
- Educational goals & Personal Development
- Career exploration and development
- Barriers to academic success
- Establishing rapport with professors and staff
- Becoming active learners and class participants
- Self-esteem & self-advocacy skills
- Course management
- Differences between high school and college courses
- Expectations of college professors
- Purpose and value of a course syllabus
- Communicating with college professors and university staff
- Study Skills and note-taking skills
- Test-taking and test anxiety
- Time Management
- Daily schedule / study schedule
- Developing organizational skills
- Overcoming procrastination
- Balancing academic & social demands
- Introduction to Academic Policies and Procedures, the impacts of:
- class attendance
- dropping / adding
- satisfactory academic progress standards
- incomplete grades
