Campus-Based
Academic Support Programs
The Summer Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
(SUMSRI)
SUMSRI is an REU
designed to encourage women and minority students to obtain advance
degrees
in the mathematical sciences.
www.units.muohio.edu/sumsri/
Tutorial Assistance Program (TAP)
The TAP Program provides peer tutors for individual or small group
tutoring in specific courses as well as reading, writing, and study
skills. Tutors are undergraduate and graduate students who have the
necessary background and have completed a training course in methods
of tutoring.
The tutoring is designed to:
• Stress understanding of concepts
• Strengthen background skills needed for mastery of material
• Practice application of material to content
• Reinforce learning
• Promote independent learners
www.units.muohio.edu/saf/lrn/tap.shtml
The Office of Learning Disabilities Services
The
Office of Learning Disabilities Services supports students with learning
disabilities and/or attention deficit disorders and provides
services designed to ensure access to university programs and activities.
Support staff work with faculty and other university and community
resources to ensure that each student’s disability related
needs are met.
www.units.muohio.edu/saf/lrn/ldServices.shtml
Learning Assistance Center
The Learning Assistance Center has special services designed to reach
out to students experiencing study or learning problems resulting
in poor grades including academic probation. All students experiencing
academic difficulty or who are in academic jeopardy are may attend.
The students are given help in organizational skills including time
management and note taking which demands regular class attendance.
Preparation for test taking is taught as the application of long-term
positive study behaviors. Monitoring occurs in the form of individual
conferences, peer mentoring, or tutoring.
www.units.muohio.edu/saf/lrn/
The Scholastic Enhancement Program (SEP)
The nationally honored SEP program serves as a link to the University
for students accepted into the program to ensure their completion
of a degree. This goal is achieved by providing academic and personal
guidance through coordinated programs and services in cooperation
with Miami faculty and staff.
www.units.muohio.edu/saf/lrn/sepProgram.shtml
Supplemental Instructors (SI)
The SI program offers peer led study sessions for select courses with
high failure and withdrawal rates allowing students to become independent
and successful learners. SI leaders, who are advanced undergraduate
students, attend all class sessions and are familiar with how concepts
are introduced and reviewed in the course. Unlike tutors, SI leaders
have an intimate understanding of how the instructor teaches. SI
sessions are based on collaborative learning techniques where the
SI leader serves as a peer not an authority figure. SI provides regularly
scheduled, out-of-class, peer facilitated sessions.
The Office of Career Services
The Office of Career Services assists students in making a successful
transition from their academic pursuits to their career goals. The
Office strives to provide a well-balanced variety of direct services,
educational programs, and resource materials so students may secure
meaningful employment, obtain internships, or pursue additional education
consistent with their career goals.
www.units.muohio.edu/careers/
Career Exploration and Testing Center (CETC)
The CETC helps students assess their skills, interests, and values
along with their career and academic options, and works to help students
learn how these things interact in making positive career and academic
decisions. The CETC offers two computer based career self-assessments,
Discover and eChoices. These programs allow students to learn about
their interests, abilities, and values as they relate to careers.
Students can then use this information to look up careers or majors
that might be a good fit for them. Both are available via the internet,
and can be used from any computer with web access. CETC also has
standardized assessment instruments available to help students identify
career-related interests, abilities, values and other personality
characteristics that might affect career decision-making. Career
Assistants are able to administer and interpret some of these assessments
and will schedule appointments with career counselors to administer
and interpret others. Available assessment instruments include the
following:
• Strong Interest Inventory (SII)
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Major-Minor Finder
www.units.muohio.edu/saf/scs/careerexploration.htm
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Help Sessions
Each semester the Department of Mathematics and Statistics has evening
help sessions which meet from 6:00 to 8:00 on Monday through Thursday
for calculus one and precalculus. As part of their assistantship at
least six graduate assistances are assigned to the sessions and each
evening a faculty member volunteers to assist.
Alumni Admission Recruitment Network (AARN)
Alumni are in an excellent position to help applicants develop an understanding
of what makes Miami University unique. Alumni personalize the admission
process for students. The goal of the AARN volunteer is to assist
Miami University in recruiting, yielding, and connecting the best
possible students from their home area. Training for AARN volunteers
is provided on campus. The volunteer is asked to fulfill several
duties in order to ensure the success of the network. These duties
include, representing the university at local college fairs, contacting
students by phone or email, helping to host and mingle with prospective
students and parents at area information sessions, or hosting mixers
for incoming students.
www.miami.muohio.edu/University_Advancement
/MUAA/volunteer/aarn.cfm
Minority Recruitment Efforts by the University and the Multicultural
Recruitment Program (MRP)
MRP is a program similar to AARN except it is comprised of minority
alumni who recruit minority students. Other efforts to recruit minorities
can be found at the below site.
http://www.miami.muohio.edu/documents_and_policies/
diversity_report/recruitment_stu.cfm
