Student Success Center

Academic Care Team

The purpose of the Academic Care Team is to provide additional communication and support for students who are academically at-risk. We value the individual academic support that instructors, advisors, mentors, staff, and peers provide to students and we encourage these people to continue working individually with students. If faculty, staff, or students would like additional follow-up on a student’s academic concerns or feels as though the student is academically at-risk, they can use this form to refer a student or they can refer the student via phone, email, or in person. The academic concerns may be related to:

• poor academic performance,
• a decline in grades,
• attendance concerns,
• potential undiagnosed disability,
• academic dishonesty prevention, and/or
• a desire to connect a student with academic resources (tutoring, Writing Center, organization/time management, peer mentor, academic coaching, etc.)

Academic Care Team referrals are sent to the Student Success Center and addressed by UMN Crookston’s Academic Care Team. The Academic Care Team will gather information from instructors, advisor(s), and other related individuals or departments, and then come up with a reasonable follow-up or course of action to connect the student with appropriate resources and, if necessary, provide additional academic interventions. The Academic Care Team is chaired and led by the Student Success Center, with representatives from the following departments: Student Engagement and Wellness; Disability Resource Center; Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education; Business; Math, Science, and Technology; and Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Academic Care Team Referral

Wellness Care Team

If your concern is related to student health, wellbeing, or behavior, your concern may be more suited for the Wellness Care Team. The Wellness Care Team is a multi-departmental committee that addresses issues related to student health and wellbeing and how it affects behavior on campus. The committee counsels on student concerns and creates actionable plans to connect students with resources and counsel faculty/staff in handling student needs and behavior.

Wellness Care Team Referral

Student Resources

• GPA calculator
• Online Flashcard

Helpful Websites

• Writing Center
  
• Tutoring
• Purdue OWL (writing resource)
• How to Study
• Math.com
• EffectiveU
• Learning Style Quiz
• Khan Academy
  (Students can make use of our extensive library of content, including interactive challenges, assessments, and videos from any computer with access to the web)

Study Skills

• General Skills
• Ten Proven Steps to Successful Test Taking 
• Various Tips for Various Test Types 
• The Six Types of Test Taking Errors 
• College Expectations 
• Tips for Studying
  
• Test Taking Tips
  

Resource Links

• Grammar and Writing Skills (UMC Writing Center)
• Time Management
• Dictionary/Thesaurus
• Note-taking (Why's and How's...EXCELLENT!!!)

The UMC Library provides limited proctoring of make-up tests as a service to faculty. This service should not be used for students with testing accommodations due to documented disability – those tests are administered by the Disability Resource Center.

Learn more about test proctoring

Students who do not maintain good academic standing (cumulative GPA of 2.0 or better) are placed on academic probation and become a part of UMN Crookston’s Golden Eagle Academic Recovery (GEAR) program. While participating in GEAR, both on-campus and online students will be placed in a Canvas site to assist the student with their academic recovery. The Canvas site will prompt students participating in GEAR to complete the following expectations:

• Enroll in 15 or fewer credits
• Earn a 2.0 or better GPA for the semester
• Develop and complete an individual Academic Action Plan (AAP) to earn a 2.0 or better throughout the semester. Part of the AAP will include the following steps:
• Visit with the Student Success Center (SSC) by the end of the second week of the semester to discuss your plan of action
• Visit with your advisor during Weeks 5-6 to check your progress and update your plan of action, if necessary
• Check your grades at midterm on MyU to be sure you are on track. If your grades are not where you would like them to be, we highly encourage you to request an academic coaching session to make a plan for your academic recovery for the rest of the semester.
• Visit with your advisor during Weeks 11-12 to check your progress and select classes for the next semester
• Visit with the SSC for the final AAP meeting during the last 2 weeks of the semester

Specific due dates for each meeting will be listed on the AAP and in the Canvas site.

Students need to attain a term GPA of 2.0 during the semester they are in the GEAR program to avoid academic suspension. Students who do not complete an AAP, or follow the terms of their plan, may lose their right to appeal an academic suspension.

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Planning to head to a conference? Out of town for a family event? If you’re expecting to miss one or more of your classes this semester, consider a Don’t Cancel Class workshop! Alternatively, if one of our workshops fits well into your class curriculum, we're happy to visit your class for a workshop while you're there!

The Student Success Center offers a variety of workshops to engage your students. Our topics range from career preparation to academic success to diversity, and we would be happy to tailor them to the needs of your class!

Some workshops can be shortened and combined to cover a single class period or can be presented as a supplement to a regular class.

To request a workshop, fill out the form below. Please fill out your request at least two weeks in advance of the date of your absence.

Workshop Topics and Descriptions   Request a Workshop

• Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching (CELT)
• College Open Textbooks
• Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
• Open Textbook Library
• Open Education Consortium
• OpenStax
• Pedagogy Unbound
• U of MN Teaching Toolkit