Ensure the retention, academic achievement, and timely graduation of students admitted to the U of M School of Public Health. Enable the acquisition of job search skills, internship sites, and eventually job placement in public health settings for all SPH graduates. Direct training in academic skills is provided throughout the school year in different formats. Workshops offering the total academic efficiency package are available at different times of day and on different days of the week at the beginning of each term. Special seminars targeting one skill are offered throughout each term.
Individualized instruction is available daily, on a walk-in or appointment basis.
Training provides graduate-level competencies in reading, writing, listening, speaking, test preparation, time management, anxiety control, and group process. FSGs are available, on request, for any course that provides special difficulty to particular students. Emphasis is on learning activities often absent from large lecture courses, but needed for superior student performance. Student advocacy also recognizes and encourages the support utility of an academic mentor. Instructional improvement activities often grow out of advocacy activities and include problem analysis and instructional design activities with faculty who are responsive to improving student learning.