Resources for Academic Success

Helping Your Student Succeed in the Classroom

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette offers over 100 undergraduate degree programs and specialized concentrations. Faculty and staff on our campus are committed to ensuring your student’s academic success. While your student’s academic journey is their own, you can support them by knowing about the various support resources on our campus that help students academically.

University Colleges & Academic Advising The University has eight academic colleges from which to choose a major. Every student is assigned an academic advisor. It is the advisor’s responsibility to assist the student in course selection each semester. Students may obtain the name and contact information for their academic advisor through their ULink Student Portal account. Students are required to meet with their academic advisor each semester before scheduling classes for the upcoming semester.

Student Interaction with University Faculty The faculty is committed to your student’s success. One of the greatest tips you can provide your student is to encourage them to visit with their faculty members outside of class. Students are often hesitant to interact with faculty members, and don’t realize how valuable faculty are in assisting them in their courses.

University Honors Program Dr. Julia Frederick, Director Judice-Rickels Hall 208 (337) 482-6700 honors@louisiana.edu honors.louisiana.edu The University Honors Program provides serious and highly motivated students with a set of unique intellectual and educational opportunities designed to help them reach their potential.

Students in the Honors Program benefit from the following opportunities and resources: • Smaller class sizes and contracts to personalize their education • An opportunity to complete and publish an undergraduate thesis • Early registration • Research opportunities • Honors Seminar • Honors scholarship opportunities • Honors events and expense-paid Honors trips • Honors Living Learning Community • In-house computer lab and services in Judice-Rickels Hall

Qualifications First-time freshmen qualify for the Honors Program with an ACT Composite of 26 (SAT 1260) or higher. Students must apply to the program by attending the Honors Program Meeting during their regularly scheduled Orientation. Students may also apply to the program at any point in their undergraduate career with a GPA of 3.2 or better.

Program Requirements

To remain in the Honors Program, students must complete the following requirements: • Maintain a 3.0 GPA as a freshman and 3.2 GPA during sophomore, junior, and senior years • Complete 18 credit hours of Honors courses during their undergraduate career • Enroll in and attend an Honors Seminar for six consecutive semesters

Complete a research project

Academic Success Center Lee Hall 115 (337) 482-6818 asc@louisiana.edu studentsuccess.louisiana.edu The Academic Success Center is the University’s academic support center. Services include grade checks, academic success workshops, academic counseling, tutoring, dropping classes, and major changes.

The Learning Center Lee Hall, 2nd floor (337) 482-6583 tlc@louisiana.edu studentsuccess.louisiana.edu/tutoring The Learning Center is the place for your student to visit when they need help with an academic subject. Its main goal is to assist them in achieving academic success! The Learning Center offers FREE oneon-one tutoring, study group tutoring, Supplemental Instruction, a STEP computer lab, and other online resources. Tutors are available for almost all 100- and 200-level math and science courses as well as accounting, economics, engineering, languages, psychology, and statistics. Students can walk in or call to schedule an appointment.

Office of First-Year Experience Lee Hall 106 (337) 482-6599 ofye@louisiana.edu firstyear.louisiana.edu Coming to college is a big change. As with any of the other big changes you encounter in life, coming to college can

be both exciting and stressful. The Office of First-Year Experience (OFYE) is here to help you and your student manage this transition. OFYE has created programs and services to assist students and their families throughout the process of joining the UL Lafayette community. These include: Cajun Connection, UNIV 100: First-Year Seminar, programs for first-year students, Living Learning Communities, and a Parent & Family Newsletter.

UNIV 100: First-Year Seminar is a course specifically designed to assist first-year students with a successful transition into college-level work. Your student will work with a faculty member and a peer mentor on theme-based activities that sharpen their critical thinking and problem solving skills and develop their written and oral communication skills.

The Parent & Family Newsletter is emailed to the families of first-year students. Parents can sign up for the newsletter on the Office of First-Year Experience’s website at firstyear.louisiana.edu.

The Writing Center Denise Rogers, Director H.L. Griffin Hall 107 (337) 482-5224 denise.rogers@louisiana.edu english.louisiana.edu/about-us/publicationscenters/writing-center The Writing Center is a community of students, tutors, and teachers who are focused on writing. Together they create a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere in which writers work with other writers. Students visiting the center are encouraged to discuss their writing projects and writing in general.

The center’s staff assists students at any stage of the writing process to help them become better writers, including: • Focusing on the writing process and the value of creating multiple drafts • Helping students see strengths and problems in their writing • Helping students learn to proofread their writing • Empowering students to write in their own voices