Roads to Success for Freshmen

ROADS TO SUCCESS 2013 DATES ANNOUNCED!

Join us for the Roads to Success 2013 program for freshmen from September 17- September 27, 2013. Move-in for First-Year Experience Residence Halls will be on Monday, September 16. You do not have to live on campus to participate in Roads (see details below).

TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE you may either click this link to go to the 2013 Roads Reservation form, or scroll to the bottom of this page for the live form.

Course information (must register for both courses):

Roads to Success (course begins 2 weeks prior to the start of the fall term)
Course Registration Number (CRN):  15065
Subject/Course#/Section:  UNST 199 RS1
Meets from: 9:00am-4:00pm, on 9/17- 9/20 & 9/23-9/27
Location: TBA
Instructors:  Liane O'Banion, Shoshana Zeisman, Courtney Sandler

Roads to Success (course meets through fall term)
CRN:  15066
Subject/Course#/Section:  UNST 299 RS2
Meets 3:00pm-3:50pm each Wednesday from 9/30-12/11
Location:  TBA
Instructors: Liane O'Banion, Shoshana Zeisman, Courtney Sandler

Program Description: Roads to Success is a Portland State University early start program for new freshmen. First offered in 2009, Roads provides sixty students the opportunity to learn valuable skills and be exposed to campus resources prior to their first term at PSU.

Roads students are exposed to critical academic skills; student success and college adjustment strategies, co-curricular opportunities, resource referrals and community building activities to assist in the transition from high school to the University prior to the start of fall term. Intended outcomes include increased academic success, retention and overall student satisfaction.

Components: The primary component of Roads is a three-credit course offered the two weeks prior to the start of fall term (including Viking Days but not including Saturday & Sunday) followed by an additional one-credit seminar during fall term which meets on Wednesdays from 3-3:50pm (for a total of 4 credit hours). Approximately two-thirds of the cohort will live in the First-Year Experience Residence Hall and will move to campus early on Monday, September 16, 2013 if they make arrangements to do so prior to the mid-July, 2013 deadline.

Curriculum: The program uses Skip Downing's "On Course" curriculum and highlights the eight principles and essential qualities that successful students have including: accepting personal responsibility, discovering self-motivation, mastering self-management, employing interdependence, gaining self-awareness, adopting life-long learning, increasing self confidence and developing emotional intelligence. Additionally, attention is given to college adjustment issues, academic "culture", practicing tolerance, understanding diversity, academic skill building, college writing, major and career exploration, community building, exposure to campus resources and co-curricular opportunities.

Required Textbook: There is a required textbook for Roads. All students must purchase a copy of On Course: Strategies for Success in College and in Life (2013) by Cengage/Wadsworth Learning. The text is available at the PSU Bookstore, Powells, and Amazon.com. Students can also rent the text or purchase electronic copies, depending on which format works best for them.

SAMPLE SCHEDULE OF A ROADS DAY (What will we be doing in this class/program)?

7:30-8:30am  OPTIONAL:  Breakfast at Victor's Cafe in Ondine (for on-campus students ONLY)

9-9:30am  Morning Warm-Up, Discuss daily readings

9:30-10:30am  Guest speaker from campus resource (Financial Aid, Student Activities, Advising, Women's Resource Center, etc).

10:30-11:30am  Class activity on daily subject from the text (self-awareness, self-management, test-taking, note-taking, interdependence, etc)

11:30-12:30pm  Lunch together at Victor's Cafe in Ondine

12:30-1:30pm  Visit on-campus resource/Field trip (during Viking Week there will be more time for this)

1:30-2:00pm  Video/movie

2:00-3:00pm   Work on class project or presentation of weeks material

3:00-4:00pm  Class activity/minute papers

4:00-7:00pm  Break, no class, on-campus students have dinner, homework

7:00-10:00pm  OPTIONAL:  Planned event with Residence Assistants (movie night, game night, walk to Voodoo donuts, Capture the Flag, Ultimate Frisbee, other fun social activities)

For additional information, contact Liane O'Banion, Assistant Director and Program Coordinator, at 503-725-9549 or obaniol@pdx.edu. Please contact 503.725.4448 or tutoring@pdx.edu for more information.

REGISTER FOR 2013 BY FILLING IN THE RESERVATION FORM HERE.
SPACE IS LIMITED.

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Important Note: The Roads to Success program covers the cost of housing and food for the weeks prior to fall term (food only for non-residential students), regular tuition for credit hours will be billed to your student account for fall term.