Student Success Center

Illinois Board of Higher Education Showcase

December 6, 2011

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Student Success Center• What’s been achieved• How its been done• What’s the student perspective• What’s next

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Academic Warning to Good Academic Standing

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Minority Student Attrition

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Overview• Title III Grant– Create Student Success Center– Establish an endowment– Construct a building (real and virtual space)

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9th Street Hall

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Student Success Center

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www.eiu.eiu/success

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Student Success Center• Staffing• Empowerment Course• Tutoring• Faculty Referral and Resource• Workshops

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Overview• Resource/Referral– BOOST (Building Outreach and Opportunity for

Students in Transition)– Reinstatement– Cooperation/Coordination

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Cooperation/Coordination

EarlyAlert

System

CareerServices

WritingCenter

StudentSuccessCenter

AthleticSupportServices

AcademicAdvisingCenter

ReadingCenter

CounselingCenter

MinorityAffairs

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Perspectives• Student stories– Jasmine Parks– Andrew Lutz

• 3.07 GPA – Dillon Dorsett

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www.eiu.eiu/success

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What’s Next• Early Alert System• Supplemental Instruction• Online Tutoring• Summer Institute of Higher Learning

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Thank you