Academic Advising
Provides counseling and helps students select appropriate
courses. Helps students to understand academic policies and regulations.
Offers workshops on topics such as choosing a major.
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Academic Success Center
Workshops on academic topics. Website with campus events
and tutoring schedules and information and links on study topics.
Individual course-specific appointments on learning habits and strategies.
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Athletics Academic Support Services
Athletes
are given access to academic support services, including tutoring,
counseling, and study tables. Student-athletes are required
to meet initial eligibility and continuing eligibility standards as
members of a varsity team.
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Career Services
Offers computer based interest inventories, individual
counseling sessions, a resource library, an online resume service,
workshops, and job fairs.
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Counseling Center
Provides free, confidential individual counseling
sessions for enrolled students. Offers workshops on topics related
to psychological issues.
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Departmental
Tutoring
Various departments on campus offer free tutoring programs.
In some cases, the tutoring is provided for specific first or second
year classes; in others cases, tutoring is available for a wider
range of courses. Some tutors are graduate students; others are
advanced
undergraduates. Most departments offer drop-in tutoring; a few departments
allow individual appointments. In addition, some departments offer
informal peer tutoring through their clubs.
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Disability Services
Coordinates services for qualified students with
disabilities. Provides information, equipment, and other resources.
Offers workshops and programs and acts as an advocate for students
with disabilities.
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EIU Four
This is a graduation
incentive program that helps students in most majors obtain a degree
in four years or less. Monitoring
degree progress and counseling are among the services provided.
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Campus Advising Network
Faculty and other professional advisors play an important role in
helping students to schedule appropriate classes, complete graduation
requirements, select a desired major and career, and work through academic,
personal, and social problems that often confront college students.
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Faculty and Departments
Students attend college for an education and
to earn a degree. Faculty, through their teaching efforts, play a crucial
role in the retention of students. Faculty members often engage in
classroom practices and out-of-class counseling, mentoring, and tutoring
that enhances retention, as well as making referrals when they encounter
students struggling with academic or social issues. Many departments
engage in concerted efforts to track the progress of their majors and
intervene when students are having difficulties.
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Gateway Program
This is
a special admissions program for those students who do not meet Eastern’s entrance requirements. Students are given
assessments, they meet regularly with counselors, their progress (attendance & grades)
is tracked three times a semester, and they are offered academic support.
Students are required to attend study tables and workshops offered
by various student support specialists.
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Health Education Resource Center
Offers a variety of health related outreach programs,
offers access to information, and provides counseling for health related
issues such as alcohol and other drugs and sexually transmitted diseases.
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Honors Programs
Offers a computer laboratory, counseling, special
classes, scholarships, privileges, and special events for accepted
students.
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International Programs
Students are given an extensive orientation to Eastern
Illinois University and American culture during the week preceding
the fall semester. Students receive a handbook (Survival Guide) and
ongoing English instruction and academic and personal counseling.
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Orientation
Introduces students to Eastern Illinois University
through a daylong program that helps familiarize students with the
campus and the transition to college as well as registering them for
classes. Organizes convocation and related events and sponsors programs
such as the emerging leaders program.
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Peer Helper Program
Provides peer mentors for new students that help
orient them to the academic and social life at EIU.
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Reading Center
Offers various software programs (Learning Plus--a
math, reading, and English program; speed reading, study skills assessment)
and individualized assistance with reading and study skills by graduate
students or staff. Provides the GST 1000 course (Reading and Study
Skills). Offers workshops on the Illinois Basic Skills Test.
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Residence
Hall Staff
Residence hall assistants produce or sponsor programs
related to academics and college life. Student also interact with RAs
when they need help with an academic or social problem or when they
violate residence life rules.
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Speech-Language-Hearing
Clinic
Provides diagnostic and therapy services to EIU
students free of charge for speech, language and hearing difficulties
including voice problems, stuttering, English language usage, accent
reduction, and social communication problems associated with brain
injury and autistic spectrum disorders.
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TRIO Program
Students who are first generation, low income, or
have a disability may apply for admission to this program, which offers
individual professional counseling, peer tutoring, leadership training
and opportunities, and a computer laboratory.
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University Foundations Course
Two-credit class hour class for incoming first-year
students providing orientation to the academic and social life at Eastern
Illinois University as well as critical thinking, learning, reading,
speaking, and writing skill development.
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Writing Center
Drop-in or individual tutoring by appointment on
the process of writing and editing. Graduate students will also answer
questions over the phone. This Center also offers workshops on the
writing competency test.
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