Center for Student Success

For Faculty

For intervening early, consider crucial points in your class.

As soon as a student falls behind in turning in assignments, misses or does poorly on quizzes and tests, expresses (or appears to be) confused and frustrated, or misses classes, consider doing one of these three things:

  • Call the student. Perhaps the first day of class you collect phone numbers.  If you are unfamiliar with Colleague, the building secretaries or Foundation Studies can look up phone numbers for you, or print out a roster with the phone numbers for you. Frequently a phone call from the instructor is the best thing to reinforce the importance of attending.
  • Work out an ACE plan with your student. ACE (Academic Competency Efforts) allows you to direct your student to the Center for Student Success for specific purposes. Check off and write out your recommendations, then have the student visit CSS. Choose whatever reinforcement you feel is appropriate, such as points, a grade, or even a requirement of the class. Extra ACE forms are also available from your building secretaries and at CSS - Walker 125.
  • Promote workshops and events. Talk to your students about attending special workshops and events such as Project Success. Use ACE as a contract to offer credit or to require that your students attend.
  • Contact Foundation Studies. Use the Early Alert form or online at http://www.jccmi.edu/Success/EarlyAlert.htm, e-mail charlotte_finnegan@jccmi.edu or marian_burlingham@jccmi.edu, or call us at 8415. Extra Early Alert forms are also available from your building secretaries and at CSS - Walker 125.

Other things you can do:

  • Walk the student to CSS in Walker 125.
  • Walk groups of students, or your whole class, to CSS. We'll arrange a tour or study sessions for groups. Perhaps you'd like to have small groups work on some PLATO units, such as metrics or a reading unit.
  • Hold office hours in the CSS area. Feel free to work with your students in the CSS area. We have small group areas as well as the more spacious BW 118. Call 8415 to hold your space.
  • Invite us to your classroom. We'll be happy to do short, semi-short and slightly longer classroom invitations to use the resources or to demonstrate a specific strategy useful for your content area.

As we work with students you refer to us, we'll keep you informed of their participation and progress.

ACE Plan
Early Alert

For more information contact Bethany Rogers at
The Center for Student Success,
by phone (517) 796-8415 or
email rogersbethanym@jccmi.edu

Updated 08/26/08