Submitted by: Jennifer Brewer, jbrewer1@uca.edu on 10/20/2025
This week’s Faculty for Successful Students focus is: Provide Individualized Support.
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This theme aligns with the student campaign emphasis: Ask for Help.
Providing individual support to college students is vital for their academic success. Tailoring assistance to each student’s needs helps clarify misunderstandings, strengthen student-teacher relationships, and offer targeted resources. This personalized approach improves performance, builds confidence, and enhances overall academic achievement.
Faculty Tips to Reinforce Success
Here are a few simple ways you can encourage these habits in your classes:
- Complete progress reports.
- Consider scheduling conferences or short check-ins with students; you may want to devote a class period or time during your office hours to meet with students about the course or other topics.
- Keep a file of commonly-used grading comments so that you can quickly customize substantive and meaningful feedback for students on graded assignments.
- Promote Tutoring Services, the Center for Writing and Communication, and Peer Success Coaching in class.
- Remind students that office hours are for them – make yours welcoming.
- Share examples of times you asked for help to normalize the behavior.
- Direct students to support services when you see them struggling.
Resources for You:
When we work together, we make it easier for students to grow, thrive, and succeed here at ÿÈÕ´óÈüÍøÕ¾. Thanks for all you do to support them!
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