"Success For All"
Come see us because We're your biggest fan!!
success@andrews.edu
269.471.6096
204 Nethery Hall
Student Success Team
Carletta Witzel: Director/Student Intervention Coordinator
269-471-3227 witzelc@andrews.edu
Kris Knutson: Coordinator of Advising Services
269-471-6205 knutson@andrews.edu
Erling Snorrason: Assoc. Director/Tutoring
269-471-3398 esnorra@andrews,edu
Andrea Richardson: Administrative Assistant
269-471-6096 andreaci@andrews.edu
Services We Offer
- Tutoring-Group or One-to-One
- Disability Accommodations
- Evaluations
- Job Placement
- Changing your Major
- Undeclared Student advising
- Training-Study Skills, Time Management and Goal Setting
- Tutor Training
General Studies
General Studies is a degree offered only by the college of Arts and Science. You cannot declare this major. Rather you must apply for it. It is designed for students who have career or personal goals that may not accurately match existing degrees, or for students who have taken a lot of college courses, may have transferred schools or majors, and are looking to finish college. It is a great way to maximize all of those credits you have received over the course of your college career that would otherwise seem useless. This also allows you to create a composite degree if you?ve got a lot of credits going towards two majors you can combine them into one degree. You can receive a BA, BS, AA, or AS in general studies and the general requirements are the same as for other majors. General Studies degrees are also great for students who want to have a very specific concentration allowing them to work with an advisor to form their own curriculum within Andrews guidelines.
PLA (Prior Learning Assessment)
The PLA program is designed for students who are 24 years of age or older and wish to attain credit based on the experience and skills that they have already acquired through time in the workplace. It allows individuals to build a portfolio to bring before professors to show that they have attained a college level of knowledge in a particular subject. This is not only a great way to save time, but it is also a great way to save money since 3 PLA credits will cost you just over $200 instead of the $1785 it would normally cost you to get 3 credits.
Tutoring
Click here for a current list of tutors.
Tutoring is often seen as a way of help for college students who can?t cut it on their own. However this statement is not true as proved by the past several years of data that we have for our tutoring program here at Andrews University. Since the Spring of 2003, 68% of the students who were getting tutoring help had a GPA ranging anywhere from 2.5 to 3.5 and 6% had a GPA higher than 3.5! That means almost three-quarters of the students getting help were students doing above average work or higher. Many individuals who are incredibly smart in one area may struggle with another area, so why not get all the help you can to excel in college. Student Success offers tutoring in larger groups usually ranging from 1-7 students and personal tutoring that ranges from 1-3 students.
ASC (Academic Skills Center)
Tutoring in a group that usually ranges from 1-7 students for a specific subject that has been requested. Some of the more common subjects are Greek, Hebrew, Physics, Chemistry, Music, French, and various business classes such as Accounting and Finance. The tutoring is set up to meet throughout the week with locations varying throughout the campus Best of all, it is free of charge.
IDSC116 is an excellent way to get help for students needing additional attention in one of their classes. Students that have credits ranging from 12-15 can take the IDSC116 course without any charge and get anywhere from 1-4 credits for it. It offers an opportunity for students who do a lot better when they can get the one-on-one attention to succeed. IDSC116 covers most courses and if we don?t already have a tutor for your subject we will do our best to find one so that you can have the ability to grasp knowledge in any subject whether it is one of your strengths or not.
Disability Accommodations
The Student Success Center strives to provide reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities in accordance with section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. At Andrews, a qualified person with a disability is a one who meets all admissions standards, is able to perform the essential functions of an
academic program, and is able to use reasonable accommodations in a manner which allows the individual to perform the essential functions of the program without imposing a direct threat to the health and safety of others.
Students requesting reasonable accommodations will need to provide current (within 3 years) documentation from an appropriate, licensed professional at their own expense. The documentation should include the type of disability, tests and scores used to evaluate the student, and a description of how the disability limits the student's activities. More information is available from the Student Success Office. Recommendations for accommodations are helpful, but Andrews University retains the right to approve accommodations based on the documentations and to substitute different appropriate accommodations based on availability. Personal assistance such as books, computers, personal aides, or tutors are not provided except where they are available for the general student population.
Requests for accommodations, along with appropriate documentation, should be made six weeks in advance, or as early as possible. It is the student's responsibility to request accommodations, provide documentation, contact faculty members once accommodations have been agreed upon, and to make use of the accommodations in academic activities. Accommodations are not a guarantee of academic success.
Students may contact Carletta Witzel in the Student Success office by e-mailing witzelc@andrews.edu or by calling 269-471-3227.