Spring into Success Workshop - Saturday, January 25, 2025
Success is not always achieved on a predictable path – each student’s experience is unique. The start of a new semester provides an opportunity for you to refocus, identifying new goals, strategies and an actionable plan to promote your academic success.
The Spring into Success Workshop provides an opportunity to catalyze your efforts as you start the Spring 2025 semester. During this half-day workshop, you’ll have dedicated time and guidance to:
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Reflect on your Fall semester
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Identify your goals for the Spring 2025 semester
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Review campus resources to support your new goals, and your overall success
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Develop a plan to accomplish your goals
You are invited to attend this workshop, which will be held on campus on Saturday, January 25, 2025 from 10:00 am-1:00 pm. Food will be provided. You can register by completing this webform.
Event Agenda
10:00 am - Check-In & Coffee
10:15 am - Welcome
10:30 am-12:00 pm Breakout Sessions
Aligning Your Time with Your Values and Purpose
Integrating Mindfulness
12:00 pm - Lunch Provided
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm - Goal Setting & Closing
Additional Resources
(Re) Strategizing for Academic Success
Make Resources a Routine. Research shows that for every hour spent in class, students should spend three (3) hours outside of class participating in activities that support their learning – completing assignments and reading, studying (alone and with others), and using campus learning support services. Successful students use on-campus resources throughout their academic career, even before they experience an academic challenge. Review resources avaliable to support your success on the UC Merced Success Anywhere website (click here).
Connect with your Instructor. Instructors provide the most direct link to the course content you’re studying and can help you strategize your efforts as you start the semester. Meeting with your instructor can be an opportunity to:
- Get clarification on class content, readings or a recent grade
- Provide an opportunity to get to know your instructor or teaching better, which in turn increased your confidence
- Get study ideas – including specific strategies that may work especially well for that class or assignment
- Prepare for an upcoming assignment
- Review a recent assignment for areas of improvement
- Work through practice problems – your instructor can help you go step-by-step through problems and verify correct answers. Can’t get the right answer? Your instructor can help identify errors.
Connect with Campus Resources that Support YOUR Success
- Tutoring is free! UC Merced’s Tutoring Centers (click here) offers peer-based academic support in a variety of subjects. Tutors don’t provide answers or complete your homework, but can review course concepts and strategies, provide sample problems and identify relevant study/test taking strategies. The STEM Tutoring Hub (click here) and PLUS Center (click here) host group study sessions in a variety of subjects.
- University Library (library.ucmerced.edu.) Start with the Virtual Tour, which will give you an overview of services to support your research papers and projects, including 24/7 chat support. Librarians provide research help as you develop research questions, search for sources, and evaluate information. The “Start Here” page provides additional support, including: Start Your Paper, which includes brief DIY tutorials on locating databases and using common search tools like Melvyl and Academic Search Complete and Get it Online, which outlines the essentials of accessing online information with two short DIY tutorials on e-books, and UCeLinks.
- Bright Success Center, which offers online workshops and learning tools and other resources to support your academic success.
- Academic Advising (https://advising.ucmerced.edu). In addition to degree planning, academic advisors can help you develop a plan to meet your academic goals. Find out how to connect with your academic advisor here: http://advising.ucmerced.edu/who-my-advisor.
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