Fort Valley State University

Greetings!

Welcome to the Academic Success Center’s homepage! “Where your success in preceded by your preparation”

The Academic Success Center (ASC) is a unit of the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Our mission is to provide professional advisement, counseling and academic support services that proactively address the needs of students matriculating though Fort Valley State University. The Center provides ongoing academic, personal, and professional advisement and referrals for students in order to enhance their educational progress toward graduation. This includes the tracking of HOPE scholars, establishing and maintaining mentoring relationships, providing students with up-to-date information about institutional policies and procedures, and providing workshops on study skills and time management skills that are often needed, but not always utilized. The Academic Success Center is a student’s one-stop for all of the services offered on campus.

The Academic Success Center is strategically housed in the Royal C. Peabody Building right in the heart of Fort Valley State University’s Historic Quadrangle. Our offices can are located on the second floor.

Our ultimate goal in the Academic Success Center is provide services that will enable and empower students to succeed in their pursuit of their academic goals.

The professional and support staff of the center are here to serve. Our offices are open Monday through Friday beginning at 8:00 a.m. Please feel free to contact us by phone at 478-822-1070 or via e-mail at academicsuccess@fvsu.edu .

We are committed to the continued success of each and every student at Fort Valley State University.

With Wildcat Pride,
Ashley T. Ballard

The Academic Success Center (ASC) offers a wealth of services to students as they matriculate through their respective degree programs at the University. A professional staff of four academic advisors and three counselors collaborate with faculty advisors in the academic departments and other university personnel to monitor class attendance, course enrollment, grades, and the successful achievement of specialized departmental requirements of each student. This is achieved through:

• Peer Tutoring
• Time Management Workshops
• Study and Note-taking Skills Workshops
• Registration Assistance and Schedule Adjustments
• Tutorial Services
• Academic, Personal, and Career Counseling Services
• Referrals to on- and off-campus resources
• Career Counseling

The Academic Success Center is also responsible for oversight of the Presidential Scholars Program. This program is comprised of 50-70 students who have achieved SAT or ACT compatible combined scores of at least 1000, a minimum 3.00 grade point average on a 4.00 scale (with no CPC deficiencies), and who have been recommended by the Office of Admissions and Enrollment Management.

Presidential Scholars serve as peer tutors for students in need of academic assistance, as research and technical assistants in campus departments, as volunteers for campus and community enrichment efforts, and as hosts/ambassadors for distinguished campus programs and visitors. Presidential Scholars agree to provide 70 hours of service each semester and receive stipends for participating in the program.

Differently Abled Services (DAS) is a component of the Academic Success Center. The mission of the Differently Abled Services is to increase retention for students with learning disorders by ensuring equal treatment, opportunity, and access for persons with impairments and/or disorders, thus assisting in the attainment of their academic as well as personal potential.

Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act define a Differently Abled person as someone with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities such as walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working. Such a person must have a record of the impairment or regarded as having such impairment.

Among the services provided are the following:

• Advocating with and for students with learning disorders on campus and in the community
• Promoting and initiating institutional initiatives to ensure complete environmental access to students with learning disorders and physical impairments.
• Distributing accurate information about learning disorders and serving as a liaison and resource for those who study the sociological, psychological, and environmental aspects of the culture of people with learning disorders.

Other services offered are: a quiet environment for exams; extended test/exam time, usually time and a half, but up to twice the typically allotted depending on individual diagnosis; individual academic, personal and vocational counseling; individual tutorial services; communication with faculty about learning disorder needs; peer support groups for the development of academic strategies and psycho-social adjustment; computer resources for additional academic development; audio versions books where available; new student orientation assistance; community referrals; family consultation with approval of the student and faculty and Staff Consultation.

Fort Valley State University will grant reasonable accommodations and provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services to ensure all qualified students achieve access to its programs and services.