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Typical Schedule:  ½-1 Hr. Sessions: 8 or 9 am-3 pm & 5:15-7 pm .   
Tables: 11-2 & 5-6.   Keynotes: 10-11 am, 2-3:30 pm  (workshop), & 6 -7 pm.
                                                       

On SSD, require your students to pick up something from your office or sign in with you so they know where your office is and/or you know they were on campus.
          

Make appointments to meet students, one on one or in small groups, to discuss their success.
          

Have students who are involved in group projects meet and write a summary of the meeting.
          

Encourage students to use tutoring services: the Writing Center and the Peer Tutoring Center.
          

For extra credit, have students check out different kinds of student and counseling services.
          

Give students extra credit for coming up to you, shaking your hand, and chatting a bit.
          

If you know your at-risk students, invite or require them individually to meet with you.
          

Find or reserve an empty classroom to meet with students.  Many students are very nervous about meeting with an instructor in his/her office.
          

Club advisors, encourage a meeting anytime or encourage club members to attend the 2 p.m. workshop with the day’s guest speaker (a separate, smaller event than his two speeches).
          

Programs and departments, offer a success-oriented presentation/panel (e.g., “Career Options”).
                   

After SSD, ask students to write about it or discuss it in class/small groups, ask them for ideas about success, etc.  You may want to have them summarize, journal/reflect/react, evaluate, or discuss how their learning on SSD can help them reach one or more individual or course goals.

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*9-05.  Several ideas were borrowed freely from Century College ’s Oct. 1, 2003 handout “Student Success Day.”

Before SSD 

Include Student Success Day (SSD) in your syllabus/schedule.
        

Sign up to offer ½-1 hr. sessions giving students techniques for handling college successfully.
                      

Require your students to go to any sessions or counseling events and write what they learned.
          

Give your students extra credit for attending and writing about it.  (See below for writing ideas.)
          

Let us know if you’d like a particular topic offered at one or multiple times—and whether you will require students to go to it (e.g., “Avoiding Plagiarism”). 
          

Print and distribute the Home Page as a flyer to students in class.  Print and share the 1-page Short Schedule.   Show them a copy of the Full Schedule when it is available a week before SSD.
          

Send students to the SSD Web page. 
          

Discuss SSD for a few minutes in class and, each week, encourage students to attend.
          

Before SSD, ask students to write self-assessments about their success in--or their goals for--your class.  Then require them to meet with you on SSD or attend one or two specific sessions.