Academic and Career Enhancement for Second-Year Students

AcCESS Program

Florida Atlantic University was selected to receive funding under the Title III: Strengthening Institutions Program effective October 1, 2010.  FAU created a program, known as AcCESS (Academic and Career Enhancement for Second-Year Students) to improve student success and retention in the second year, targeted at students most at risk of attrition.

The AcCESS program will provide students with intensive academic advising, tutoring, and major and career counseling. Students entering the AcCESS program will receive services designed to ensure their success and include: regular meetings with the AcCESS academic advisor, to review progress in their courses and ensure that they are on a path to success; participation in time management and study skills workshops conducted by the AcCESS academic advisors; tutoring in courses that students previously failed or in other historically difficult courses students are taking for the first time; participation in faculty advising/mentoring sessions; and participation in career workshops and enrollment in SLS 1301, Career and Life Planning course, designed for at-risk students with major and career indecision.

The ultimate goals are to not only get students back on track academically but to reduce the career and major indecision that is such an important factor behind second-year student attrition.

Please contact access@fau.edu for more information.