TRIO SSS Newsletter - Summer 2020:
Exploring TRIO SSS and Your Opportunities
TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) is a federally funded educational opportunity outreach program designed to motivate, retain, graduate eligible students. TRIO SSS provides academic monitoring and support, aid in post-secondary course selection, services offered to improve the financial and economic literacy of students, peer mentoring, professional staff coaching, career and internship opportunities, and informs students about financial aid programs, benefits and resources for locating both public and private scholarships.
Meet Your TRIO SSS Professional Staff:
Director: Kimberlee Smith
Academic Services Coordinator/Data Analyst: Crystal Meiwes
Peer Mentor and Career Coordinator: Scott Farmer
Tutor and Educational Activities Coordinator: Esthela Bañuelos
Administrative Assistant:
Our Mission, Goals and Objectives:
Mission:
Student Support Services (SSS) is a federally funded TRIO program committed to the success of first-generation, low-income, and or participants with disabilities. Our mission is to help participants to:
- Develop the necessary skills, knowledge, and attributes required to complete a post-secondary education.
- Achieve maximum academic success and career readiness.
- Graduate as skilled, self-actualizing professionals and global citizens who lead through best practices and lifelong learning.
Goals:
SSS will provide services to 300 participants in order to increase persistence, retention, and graduation rates of low income, first generation, and participants with disabilities by:
- Assisting participants in acquiring the necessary skills, knowledge, and attributes to complete a post-secondary education.
- Maximizing opportunities for financial assistance by improving the financial and economic literacy of participants.
- Increasing awareness of graduate and professional options.
Objectives:
The Student Support Services program at Eastern New Mexico University will meet the following grant objectives:
- Serve 300 participants each academic year.
- Assure that 2/3 of participants qualify as first-generation and low-income, or disabled.
- Persistence Rate: 60% of all participants served by the SSS project will persist from one academic year to the beginning of the next academic year or will have earned a bachelor's degree at the grantee institution during the academic year.
- Good Academic Standing Rate: 85% of all enrolled SSS participants being served will meet the performance level required to stay in good academic standing at Eastern New Mexico University.
- Graduation Rate: 30% of new participants served each year will graduate from the grantee institution with a bachelor's degree or equivalent within six (6) years.
TRIO SSS Supplemental Tutoring:
TRIO SSS offers Supplemental Tutoring both online and in-person.
Online:
To access the TRIO SSS Supplemental Tutoring Online, please select the TRIO SSS Resources Tab within the TRIO SSS Private Community Portal, locate the TRIO SSS Supplemental Tutoring Portlet, and select the Brainfuse - Online Tutoring link.
In-Person:
The TRIO SSS In-Person Supplemental Tutoring Sessions are available in two formats: Impact/Individual Sessions and Co-Op/Group Sessions.
The Impact Sessions are one-to-one, for 45 minutes, and can be subject-intense or passive. These sessions develop your mastery of the subject, and supplements what you have received in the classroom.
The Co-Op Sessions are geared towards cooperative learning with master tutor facilitation. These sessions encourage discussion and internalization of concepts for deeper meaning.
Both types of sessions encourage the integration of "soft skills". As such, supplemental tutoring sessions combine academics with soft skills; thus, ensuring proficiency in time management, organization, note-taking, and test preparation necessary for long-term success in academia and beyond.
Please contact the TRIO SSS Tutoring and Educational Activities Coordinator as soon as possible to set up your scheduled appointments!
Spotlight on Academics:
Academic Behaviors: Observable behaviors that display a student's engagement and effort to learn material.
Learning Strategies: tactics and processes used by a student to aid in thinking, recall, and/or learning. Can include but is not limited to: mnemonic devices, metacognition, self-correction, goal setting, and time management.
Academic Perseverance: the tendency to follow through on commitments when set by transcending distractions and temptations and prioritizing learning.
Academic Mindset: Positive mindsets that motivate and validate the student to continue their academic work. The sense of belonging in the academic community, knowledge in the ability to continue growth through effort, confidence in future success, and the ability to find value in the work that is done.
Social Skills: the interpersonal interactions with peers, instructors, and professionals in your selected field of study.
References:
Farrington, C.A., Roderick, M., Allensworth, E., Nagaoka, J., Keyes, T.S., Johnson, D.W., & Beechum, N.O. (2012). Teaching adolescents to become learners. The role of noncognitive factors in shaping school performance: A critical literature review. Chicago: University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research.
TRIO SSS Programmatic Themes - Summer 2020:
Week 1 - Academic Behaviors
Professional Staff Coach Topic: Class Management in a Short Semester
Peer Mentor Topic: Online Courses - Staying Motivated and Disciplined
Professional Staff Coach Meeting Topic - Financial Aid
Week 2 - Learning Strategies
Professional Staff Coach Topic: Self-Regulated Learning
Peer Mentor Topic: Goal Setting
Week 3 - Grit
Professional Staff Coach Topic: Self-Management
Peer Mentor Topic: Importance of Goals in Grit
Professional Staff Coach Meeting Topic - Academic and Career Development
Week 4 - Financial and Economic Literacy
Professional Staff Coach Topic: Importance of a Budget;
Peer Mentor Topic: Importance of a Savings Plan
Week 5 - Academic Mindset
Professional Staff Coach Topic: Effort Improves Achievement
Peer Mentor Topic: Academic Community
Professional Staff Coach Meeting Topic - Financial Aid
Week 6 Social Skills
Professional Staff Coach Topic: Teamwork
Peer Mentor Topic: Adaptability
Week 7 - Research Skills
Professional Staff Coach Topic: Introduction to Research and Information
Peer Mentor Topic: Research Resources
Professional Staff Coach Meeting Topic - Academic and Career Development
Week 8 - Mastering the Exam
Professional Staff Coach Topic: Overcoming Test Anxiety
Peer Mentor Topic: Test Preparation
TRIO SSS Workshops:
For a full list of TRIO SSS Workshops offered for the Summer 2020 Semester, please see the tab labeled TRIO SSS Workshop Schedule within the TRIO SSS Private Community Portal.
Summer 2020 Recommended Reading List:
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kaneman
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
The Republic by Plato
Faust by Johann von Goethe
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Prince Nicolo by Machiavelli
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Wishing you a Productive Summer 2020 Semester!!
