Re: Course for probation students

["DR. SARAH BEARINGER DANGELANTONIO" <dangelst@rindge.fpc.edu>]

>  This time it is a required one-credit course for all students on academic 
> probation to help them get back on track.  I think it can only help to have 
> them meeting someone every week to focus on getting organized and figuring 
> out how to study more effectively.  Obviously, given my favorite part of 
> the Learning Center, I will work Writing Center visits into this mix.
> 	Do any of you have experience with a program like this?  What should it 
> cover?  What issues do I need to be aware of?  

We don't have a class for this purpose, but we do set up "Academic 
Contracts" which are made between the student and a member of the 
Academic Services center or the Academic Standards Committee.  The 
contracts include such services as weekly conferences with one of the 
people in Academic Services, use of a tutor for a specific subject, 
weekly progress reports completed by each student and a corresponding 
professor, attending workshops on time management and organization 
and so forth.  I don't have too much of the nuts and bolts details, 
but Dr. Carole Sitterly here, in Academic Services, can be of help. 
(603-899-4044).  
I need to produce a 
> prospectus in a month or so and have the course up and running in fall. 
>  thanks for any input.
> Jean
> 
> *************************
> Prof. Jean Timpel
> Concordia University Wisconsin
> 12800 North Lake Shore Drive
> Mequon WI 53097
> 414-243-4216
> Fax 414-2430-4351
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Karl Fornes [SMTP:karlf@usca.usca.sc.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, March 06, 1998 11:17 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: SWCA CONFERENCE UPDATE
> 
> Wow. That was fast. I'll need a two or three rooms for myself and some of
> the consultants. If you can't swing it, I suppose we could snatch up one of
> the large rooms.
> 
> karl
> 
> 
> >I've just found out that all the rooms are booked at the Jameson Inn
> >except for
> >two suites--one that sleeps 8; one that sleeps 5 ($125 per night).  If you 
> are
> >planning on attending the conference and have not booked your room yet, 
> please
> >let me know so that I can reserve a block of rooms at another site.
> >
> >			Thanks, Peggy Ellington
> 
> 
> Karl Fornes
> USC-Aiken Writing Room
> University of South Carolina--Aiken
> 171 University Parkway
> Aiken, SC 29801
> karlf@aiken.sc.edu
> 
> Office: (803) 648-6851 ext 3706
> Writing Room: (803) 648-6851 ext 3262
> 
> Check out the On-line Writing Room at:
> http://www.usca.sc.edu/uscaonlinewr/olwr.html
> 
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> 
Dr. Sarah Bearinger Dangelantonio
Humanities Department
Franklin Pierce College
Rindge, NH  03461

"Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug."  --Mary Chapin Carpenter