Services

• Counseling and Academic Advisement
• Tutoring
• Financial Aid Advisement
• Early Academic Progress Evaluation
• Workshops
• Career Advisement/Activities
• Exposure to Cultural Programs

Counseling and Academic Advisement

Personal and academic advisement is available on both an individual and group basis. Students are required to participate in a scheduled counseling calendar. A full-time counseling staff member is assigned to work with each student. The contact is frequent and continuous throughout the student’s tenure at the College.

Tutoring

Each semester, a bank of tutors is hired and trained to serve in all major academic areas. These tutors are available to all program students whenever the student or the student’s counselor feels that additional study, remediation, or review is necessary to the academic success of the student.

Financial Aid Advisement

Student Support Services students receive assistance from their counselors to ensure that both federal and college financial aid forms are correctly completed and filed before deadlines, thus insuring continued and much needed financial assistance to this predominantly low-income population.

Early Academic Progress Evaluation

At mid-term and prior to final exams, Student Support Services counselors make individual requests of faculty members for written evaluations of Student Support Services students’ academic progress. Approximately one third of the population is evaluated by means of the Teacher Evaluation for Student Support Services Student Forms each semester. These preliminary evaluations allow counselors and students to gauge the students’ achievement level and to identify and remedy academic problems before it is too late.

Workshops

Counselors organize a variety of workshop and group counseling experiences, which address such topics as stress, financial aid, Planned Parenthood, substance abuse, career exploration, and test anxiety. Other group sessions may be arranged depending on the needs of the students.

Career Advisement/Activities

Advice, testing, and several on-campus recruiting programs for local businesses and agencies are available to students as they begin to make career and post-graduate decisions.

Exposure to Cultural Programs

Students are encouraged to attend on-campus and community-based, College-sponsored functions.