Academic

Academic Success

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INFORMATION
Academic success help topics are included in the boxes above. Click on the box to go to that help link. Academic success includes high learning, high grades, and high achievement of degree objectives, but it also includes becoming the kind of person that can make a contribution to others and to society, and can lead a healthy, happy life.

Knowledge can help give you the basic values, beliefs, and skills that you need to achieve these goals. Learning how to learn more efficiently and effectively can help you in all your pursuits of a better life, because it can help you gain the knowledge you need to be successful.

Factors creating academic success include:

	LEARNING SKILLS (how efficiently you read, study, solve problems, and learn, and how well you remember and can use that knowledge).
	STUDY/WORK HABITS (giving proper time and energy to your studies and various "tricks" to help you study more effectively).
	TIME MANAGEMENT (setting goals for each area of your life, prioritizing, managing your time and life effectively, reserving proper time for your academic pursuits, and sticking to your system).
	Your RELATED ACADEMIC BACKGROUND (taking courses with the proper prerequisites, how well you have learned relevant content in the past that can help you with future courses).
	CONCENTRATION/FOCUS (ability to concentrate on your studies and get involved in them to a high degree versus casual, uninvolved study)
	CLEAR and STRONG ACADEMIC GOALS (having clear learning and academic goals such as really wanting to complete a degree and finish a certain major, wanting to make high grades or go to graduate school, enjoying the process of learning, etc.)
	MOTIVATION (wanting to be successful and meet your goals; having friends, family, and others who reinforce your academic pursuits; being a highly motivated person in general; etc.)

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ADVICE
Your academic success can have a significant effect upon your self-esteem and your future success in life. For an assessment of your academic success strengths and areas of needed improvement, take SHAQ.

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INTERNET LINKS
Check out the LINKS TO THE MORE SPECIFIC AREAS ABOVE to learn more about areas that you think you may need help in. If you have not taken our CARES assessment, do it. Also, check out the links below.

General Academic and College Success Links

***First Year Experience Site at the University of South Carolina--nationally known program
www.sc.edu/fye or fye.sc.edu

***Virtual Pamphlet Collection of the University of Chicago
Free online pamphlets about relationships and many other topics written by psychologists and other counselors from University Counseling Centers across U.S.A.
http://counseling.uchicago.edu/vpc

***Wadsworth Publishing Co. web site for personal and academic success
www.success.wadsworth.com

***McGraw-Hill publisher web site has academic success help
http://mhhe.com/power

***Oncourse Skip Downing is Professor of English and Coordinator of Student Academic Success and Learning Communities at Baltimore City Community College (BCCC). He is an international consultant in the field of faculty development and student success strategies, and is the author of On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life published by Houghton Mifflin. His website.
http://www.Oncourseworkshop.com

**Houghton Mifflin Publishers web site. Publishes college academic success-related books.
www.hmco.com/college

**Kendall-Hunt Publishers web site, publishes books on academic success and education.
www.kendallhunt.com

**A course designed for academic success with materials to help
www.csufresno.edu/universityone

**This Linfield College site has help for first year students
www.linfield.edu/fcolloq/companion.html

**The College Survival Guide: Hints and References to Aid College Students
Bruce M. Rowe, Los Angeles Pierce College
http://success.wadsworth.com/students/students_01.html#devsurskills

**Ten Tips You Need to Survive College
http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/10tips.html

**General online resource for students with links to interesting topics.
http://www.suite101.com

* Glencoe/McGraw-Hill publishers site for postsecondary education--only a catalog.
www.glencoe.com/ps

*CLEP is the most widely accepted credit-by-examination program in the United States today.
www.collegeboard.org What is CLEP?

*How to Be a Successful Student: From Marin Community College:
http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/~don/Study/Hcontents.html

**From Education World a wide variety of articles and links related to success in academia (mostly K-12 and help finding colleges).
http://www.educationworld.com/higher_ed/

Resources for Residence Hall Assistants

Resources for Residence Hall Assistants
http://www.ResidentAssistant.com

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BOOKS & MEDIA

See publishers references above.

GO TO: book_sites.htm

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CAMPUS REFERRALS

IMPORTANT! See if your university has a Learning Assistance Center, a Math Assistance Center, a Writing Center, an English as a Second Language (ESL) Center, a Science or Engineering Assistance Center, a Counseling Center, a Disabled Student Services Center, or other center that may give you special help that fits your special needs.

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Success and Happiness Home Page
Success and Happiness Attributes Questionnaire (SHAQ) to assess self on many factors
Self-Help Internet Links (List only sites with useful FREE information)

Free, full-length self-help manuals. Psychologist Dr.Tom Stevens' Web Site at www.csulb.edu/~tstevens
Free, chapters from Dr. Stevens book, You Can Choose To Be Happy
Index of FREE SELF-HELP materials available on Dr. Stevens' web site

Email feedback to Dr. Tom Stevens at tstevens@csulb.edu (We appreciate the feedback.)

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