WHAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND TO BE A SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE STUDENT
I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE all of
you to come talk to me about any issues or difficulties you may be
experiencing as you transition from High School to College.
I
sincerely want to see all of you succeed, and I realize this may be a
difficult time for some of you, but I assure you that you are not
the first student to experience problems, so please take advantage of the help
that I am extending to you and the help available to you through the
Student Success Center at
ULM
HAVING SAID THAT....
This is not High School
YOU must become engaged in the learning process and take charge of YOUR
education
Any college course should increase your understanding of the subject
matter of that course AND
enhanced your understanding your own
interests, abilities,
and limitations, If you are actively involved in the learning
process, this result is almost inevitable.
The title of
the person assigned to your course is “professor,” not teacher. A
professor provides students with the conditions for
learning, with the expectation that students will use the materials
provided to help themselves, and seek help from their
professor when their own efforts are not sufficient.
This system
requires that you take an active role in the process, in other words,
DO
NOT EXPECT SOMEONE ELSE TO DO FOR YOU WHAT YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DO FOR
YOURSELF
Grades ARE NOT GIVEN to you...they are EARNED by you. A grade in a
course is a reflection of your
achievement
in that course and NOT
A) the
amount of effort you expended during the semester
B) the amount of money you paid for the course
C) the grades you earned in high school or other college
courses
Many employers require a college degree
as a prerequisite of employment because they expect college students to
have developed habits and attitudes toward their work that will make
them more effective employees. Therefore
it would not be in your best
interest for your professor to tolerate absence from class, sleeping in
class, dishonesty, tardiness, late submissions of assignments, sloppy or
incomplete work, or any other deficiencies of performance that would not
be tolerated in the workplace.
