Goals
- To help increase students’ chance of college success
- To help ease college transition issues
- To offer a comprehensive array of academic, cultural, social, and personal support services
- To target entering African American and Hispanic freshmen, BOG scholars, and transfer students from the IUP at Punxsutawney campus
- To utilize a holistic approach, focusing on students’ own unique cultural background and learning styles
Benefits
- Academic support services, to include but not limited to academic monitoring
- Personal caseload advisor
- Peer outreach mentor
- Study groups
- Tutoring
- College survival/empowerment workshops
- Cultural enrichment activities
- Mid-term progress reports for all subject areas despite grade being achieved
- Curriculum databank consisting of course syllabi and sample exams for studying
- Personal assistance as needed
- Personal interactions with faculty members and administrators
- Gain a sense of community and smallness in an island of bigness
- An accompanying network of achieving friends and study buddies
Expected Outcomes
- Enhanced self-concept, self-esteem, and motivation
- Enhanced academic performance, retention, and graduation rates
- Formalize a Circle of Scholars, Learners, and Hall of Fame inductees
- African American Cultural Center
- Susan S. Delaney Hall, Suite B25
920 Grant Street
Indiana, PA 15705 -
Phone:
724-357-2455
- Fax:
724-357-6196
- Office Hours
- Monday through Friday
- 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
