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All right folks if you are getting checking in for our first generation support with the academic advancement center welcome. I am going to give it just a couple of minutes before we get started to allow people to.
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Ricky Guzman
10:02:11 AM
Welcome! Please use the chat box feature if you have questions throughout the presentation.
Hey, I think we go ahead and get started.
Welcome everybody, my name is Ricky Guzman. My pronouns are he him, his iama, retention specialist, with the academic advancement center, super excited to be presenting with you this morning. Yeah, generally just kind of want to.
Be right off the bat and address kind of the awkwardness usually were doing these presentations in person on campus for the summer, but in still really excited that we can be here in this format and to be able to chat with you all today. So a little bit about this presentation I'm going to be going through a lot of what our first generation student support talking about what it means to be a first generation college student. Talk about areas in which we could support you and will rap it up with more.
Information about the program that I work at. The academic advancement center and how we might be able to support you as well. Starting off this kind of college journey for you so.
Again, welcome. Thank you so much for joining and let's go ahead and dive right into it then.
So throughout the presentation please you have to utilize that chat box feature. If you do have any questions, happy to answer any of any that comes up. We will be kind of having a little bit of discussion here, so I'm going to be kind of asking out folks to share some of your thoughts as we get started. And actually it, let's do that. Starting off the first thing here is introductions.
Yeah, go ahead and type in there where we people are chiming in from. This is exciting. I myself in here in Fort Collins so that's kind of nice to be in the same town as CSU. But yeah, where other folks coming in from?
Taylor Campbell
10:04:21 AM
Fort Collins
Melissa Sesma
10:04:23 AM
San Diego
Neaki Moss
10:04:25 AM
i too am in foco
Lucas Bornhoeft
10:04:26 AM
I'm down in Littleton, right outside of lakewood
Lali Suarez
10:04:29 AM
Florida, naples
Selena Stoncius
10:04:30 AM
Grand county co
Vincent Maizland
10:04:31 AM
Fort Collins
Sean Geer
10:04:33 AM
Longmont, Co.
Brenley Levstik
10:04:34 AM
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Cortney Umoelin
10:04:36 AM
I'm here from Aurora, CO
Haley Morey-Moen
10:04:37 AM
Wisconsin
Jackson Mueller
10:04:38 AM
Loveland, CO
Alright, we have some folks from Fort Collins. We got San Diego in the house more Fort Collins little 10 Oh Wow, Florida Welcome Grant County, Fort Collins, Longma Highlands Ranch wow. Alot of Colorado folks, that's awesome.
Kameron Lambert
10:04:40 AM
Chicago
Loveland's Chicago. Also, that's really cool.
Well, again, yeah, super glad to be hearing, uh, yeah, see having you all join me today. I think this is a really unique opportunity to be kind of exploring some of this next question up. There is how you currently feeling about starting your journey at CSU. Yeah, this is a big deal.
Yeah, how are you? Let's let's hear from you all how are you feeling about this? This is a big deal.
Cindy Hanson
10:05:14 AM
I am coming from Colorado Springs. I am looking to move toward Littleton.
Neaki Moss
10:05:18 AM
scared
Lali Suarez
10:05:20 AM
excited
Cortney Umoelin
10:05:22 AM
I'm super excited!
Jackson Mueller
10:05:24 AM
Excited!!!! Can't wait to start!
Mentioned feeling scared. Yes, absolutely excited. Excited Oh my gosh. Lots of excited. That's pretty cool.
Taylor Campbell
10:05:26 AM
Nervous
Lucas Bornhoeft
10:05:28 AM
im pretty nervous but im also excited
Nervous and excited, absolutely.
Brenley Levstik
10:05:32 AM
Overwhelmed!
Chloe Candelaria
10:05:42 AM
Beyond excited and can't wait
Got some overwhelmed? Absolutely yes. I just want to like address that absolutely that's you know something.
Vincent Maizland
10:05:44 AM
Very unsure and nervous
Can't wait some nervousness.
Cool, thank you so much for like yeah um engaging with that with me because I think that's super valuable information. I mean, yeah, we're just a handful of students here. So I mean, if you're feeling one way, there's a huge chance that you are not alone and actually going to talk a little bit more about that.
That that's a really validating some of those feelings of Yeah, this is. This is exciting. This is directing. This can be all of those things, so that's cool and will talk more about this.
Next question for us is what does first generation mean? Uhm, so I mean we can approach this in a couple of different ways. Would prompt there is. What are some words or phrases that you would use to describe a first generation college student?
How about that? What's up? Yeah, some words or phrases describing first generation college student.
Cortney Umoelin
10:07:15 AM
first person in your family to attend a 4-year college/university
Can I got some good answers here? We have some.
First person to attend four year college University, absolutely.
Taylor Campbell
10:07:21 AM
Headstrong
Headstrong. Yep, Yep, that's absolutely.
Lucas Bornhoeft
10:07:26 AM
brave, ambitious
Brave and ambitious, I like that.
Neaki Moss
10:07:31 AM
i was in foster care so im the first to get a BA
1st, to get it be a. I love that that's awesome.
Again, thank you so much for your thoughts around that.
CSU we use kind of a federal definition. So that means first generation college student is a student who's either parent, Guardian, whoever you know whoever send the picture is the first to earn a four year Bachelors Degree.
In the US, so that's actually quite a little bit complicated. I think a lot of that gets lost within some of. Like you know, the process is a variety of folks are going to be.
Asking about like are you first generation college student? That's kind of the general situation. I'm from myself. Yeah, neither of my parents had completed about this degree.
I did have older siblings who went, so sometimes it can be a little misguiding of like if you were first in your family might not the first. In my family I do have older siblings who who are able to go through college but I am the first in in this generation. You know my parents and go so being able to address that of yeah there are still some.
Some things that come with that in some complexity so.
But yeah, so as we're going through that is kind of what I'm talking about. First generation, but you'll hear that all over campus of like I'm first in my family, I'm, you know.
You know what? If someone else had like a very different college experience and just understanding, invalidating again that experience for you that absolutely like first generation support looks very similar throughout that, so let's go.
Next up here is just some some numbers for folks, so sometimes it's helpful. I know for me to get some numbers behind what exactly this looks like, so here we have last year all 19, around 24,600 were enrolled as undergraduate students in that, so that's like full undergraduate class.
Of that, total of 6050 were first generation college students.
That is huge. That is a huge amount of students. It considering a four year programs here at CSU. So again, thinking about that is one in four students is first generation and that is awesome. and I think that's really important to consider in thinking about those numbers. Don't just happen. That happens because CSU has taken an interest. An is prioritizing first generation college students because of the value that they add in to add into the University.
This is an incredible opportunity for the University to be getting in brand new learners and folks who have some awesome skills and things to contribute for this community. And so I think that's just awesome. And, you know, sitting in your classroom, you can look around one and four review is going to be a first generation college student, so you're definitely not alone. And we definitely want to be there to be able to support you.
So, reflecting back on kind of how we started in thinking about how we're feeling about a lot of this process.
These are some of the common feelings that we experience for a first generation college student. So again, folks mentioned a lot of excitement and a lot of anxiety or nervousness. Absolutely, I agree. Number one.
As part of the background with what I work on, 1st generation student support, excitement is absolutely the first thing on the list. Like I can totally feel that anxiety is a very close second.
There's also a lot of pride within this. If you are first person in your family to be able to go to college, maybe that comes with a lot of pride. You know, saying that you worked hard to get to this point and you're excited about the next phase of your life to be able to do this. I mean, that's awesome and you should be proud of that accomplishment. And so we want to embrace that.
Sometimes a guilt can sleep in as well if you for many of my students. A lot of students are primary income earners in their families, and so being able to step away to pursue this goal of yours is a huge responsibility. And so with that, again, that excellent responsibility is might come a lot of guilt to an I want to address that to understand that sometimes those feelings don't always feel so great, and being able to work through those things is.
Again, responsibility kind of jumped ahead of myself there, but yeah, and sometimes it feels like this can be a huge step in terms of like making sure that you're taking care of things that you need to asking the right questions and sometimes responsibility of that. It can be both empowering and also maybe a little bit nerve wracking again.
And at the end there confusion. One thing I like to acknowledge with confusion is that confusion is sometimes the emotion that goes with learning. So I remember for myself. Yeah, going through classes for senior Confederation, college student looking around and wondering like am I doing the right thing in my in my supposed to be in the spaces in my asking the right questions. What is this that kind of thing and part of that is just like not knowing is the first step towards.
You know learning those things an understanding of.
Where, where to get some of those answers to. So if you're confused, please don't let that yeah determine you. I think that just means that you are on the right path towards figuring stuff out of what you need to be, where you need to be in that kind of thing and so.
Yeah, just addressing that, yeah. Also another big thing of this is that emotions are very complex. So please like if you don't feel some of this if you feel do. If you do feel more of this than others then.
Please embrace that because yeah, none of us are experiencing the same the same way. So understand that these emotions are complex and that they might show up differently.
Next up is understanding a little bit. Some of like what first generation students are coming into the University with. So I mentioned that first generation students are valuable for the University. And Why is that so? This next slide here is understanding some of the strengths and assets of frustration college students. So this graphic here is just kind of like a nice little visual representation of the different things that each of us are bringing to the table that helps us.
I understand and achieve that education goal.
So I'm not sure if it's as small as everybody else is for me, but on here we can see that first box there is like goals and dreams. So what does that mean? Goals and dreams say it could be really helpful for students if you're coming into the University and you have a really clear path of what you want to be working on. So say for example.
I'm coming in and I really know that I want to work on music. I want to be like the best performer I want to, you know, be in all the choirs, and I want to believe this University with this kind of experience. So having a good, clear goal and a dream for Yourself is a huge benefit for you and also to the University because we want to be able to provide programs for you that are going to be supportive so that can be definitely a huge asset or strength that you bring to the table in terms of.
Yeah, supporting your education.
Some of the other examples here. Actually I'm just going to read through them and then I'm going to hear from you all. What do you feel like? Are some of your strengths. But yeah, so some of the other examples here. Our language and communication skills.
Family support may be advocating for your needs, may be navigating college systems is something that you're OK with, an maybe IT support from some of your peers, your community, so in your own words, and again addressing the fact that this is not like an exhaustive list or exhaustive circle I guess, but understanding that there are other strengths and assets out there that students are going to utilize.
What are some of your strengths are assets for things that you feel like you could rely on to help you get in. Start up this college education.
Lali Suarez
10:16:22 AM
dedicated
Alright, we have one person, say dedicated, absolutely. I think that would be a great great asset for you to be able to know that you want to do this. I think that's exciting exciting.
Vincent Maizland
10:16:36 AM
Willingness to experience new things
We have another saying willingness, an experienced, a new things. Absolutely, that's going to be important.
Lucas Bornhoeft
10:16:45 AM
i'm getting good at reaching out when i need help with something
Reaching out when I need help with something, absolutely yes, that connects to like that advocating for your needs. When you when you need something you know, being able to understand to ask help and also to understand where to ask for that help too.
Isabella Barnard
10:16:58 AM
motivated
Motivated who he has. Huge thing. I think one of the top things that I hear from students who concern, you know with new things. Just being motivated. Feel like.
Neaki Moss
10:17:13 AM
i have great communication skills
I want to do this, you know, sometimes you know that's important for you.
Communication skills absolutely. Yep, that connects there too.
Chloe Candelaria
10:17:26 AM
open-mindedness
Understanding how to send and send an email how to how to be able to talk with you, know peers and stuff like that. That's absolutely part of it.
Taylor Campbell
10:17:27 AM
Never giving up
Open mindedness never giving up. That's excellent. I love to hear these things. I think that those are all. Yes part of the part of that first generation college student experience and ways that you can you know.
Some other things that haven't quite seen pop up yet, but things that I've seen in some of my observations. Working with first Gen students.
So understanding where these strengths and assets come from, so you've all gone through high school Ann previous education an which has led you to this point, and understanding that these strengths and assets are not necessarily new. These are things that you've been utilizing already to help you get to this point, so again.
One big good example is understanding navigating college systems 1st Gen students have sometimes been like the only ones who kind of navigating a lot of the even like admissions process. Even to getting this part done and so understanding that you have already been doing this can might be a little bit motivating to say that you can do this in the future as well.
Yeah, that can be a huge complicated process for some folks, but like you did it and you know we can. We can figure these things out. We can break them down and we can figure out who to ask questions too. And all of those are skills that that we bring with us to pursue further and further higher into these goals.
So Next up is kind of thinking about starting your journey here at CS go. So envisioning your journey.
Primarily your first year only here for folks. What is one specific thing that you want to accomplish? There's a lot to it, so yeah, envisioning your first hernia primarily your first year that we're getting started with. What is one specific thing you want to accomplish?
KA few answers coming in.
Neaki Moss
10:20:01 AM
3.5 GPA
Yes, things like GPA. Absolutely. Yep.
Jackson Mueller
10:20:06 AM
Join and become an active member in at least one club/student group
Joining in becoming involved in clubs or student groups absolutely.
Taylor Campbell
10:20:10 AM
Getting fantastic grades
Great yes yes absolutely yeah.
Lucas Bornhoeft
10:20:20 AM
i want to build a good support system for myself of friends and faculty members
Building a support system, thank you. That's that's absolutely great.
Nicholas Ruiz
10:20:23 AM
Rush a frat
Fraternities yes absolutely. Again. Getting involved. That's exciting.
Cindy Hanson
10:20:33 AM
moving closer to school to make it easier to attend class
Yeah yeah, moving moving, maybe that's a.
A piece that you want to see for yourself that's excellent.
Chloe Candelaria
10:20:41 AM
Picking a major
picking a major. Absolutely thank you.
Cool, so I mean I'm I'm not going to sit here and tell you that this is what you need to do to get those things done. Yeah, that's not totally in my role here for today, but what I do want to think about is we have these goals in mind and what we can think about is the ways in which we're going to get those goals done in terms of like reflecting back on those assets and strengths of being a first generation college student. This is absolutely.
Something that you can do and you have the strength and assets to be able to do those things and so start thinking creatively of how we want to do that.
We do have a general kind of like guidance in terms of how we have seen is most supportive for students as well. One of those things is being is focusing into like the first four weeks of class, so this might come up in other like kind of orientation things. Or maybe as you're getting started with some of your major or deciding on majors and just in general getting those classes started, but the first four weeks is something that we like to kind of highlight because it can be a really good kind of goalpost for you.
To think about what ways in which we are engaging in the ways that we can do so basically.
I can run it down really quick here. The thinking about their first four weeks, the expectations and requirements are no longer the same as in high school. So within the first four weeks is when you're going to start experiencing that.
Some of these new experiences and transitions, so that's kind of nice to understand that first generation college students are already used to kind of embracing new experiences and transitions and so understanding that this is kind of like a space of growth for you and the really the main thing that we want to focus for you is to start strong. So say, for example, you wanted to go, let's see here.
If you are auditioning for a part in a play, or you know addition ING for to be any music ensemble, I guess that's my own example 'cause I'm a musician or say if you are interested in sports and you were wanting to try out for something.
When I think about yourself of When would you start preparing for that?
Would you start preparing for that the day before? Would you start preparing for that? You know the week before?
Or would you start preparing for that large test of strength and stamina and skill as early as you can? So this is the way that we like to think about this in the first four weeks. Generally you're going to start experiencing some of your first exams, or maybe some of your first papers are going to be do, and So what we want to suggest is to start strong, because being able to hit the ground, running and being able to dive right into a lot of your coursework.
It's going to set you up to be in a really good spot for your first 4 weeks and then that process kind of. I don't want to say repeats itself, but you understand that process now of being able to get ahead of these things and to drive forward to the next goal of yours.
One of the really exciting things that's kind of marking a little bit of this semester is understanding that you have already faced new transitions. I don't know any all notice, but there is a pandemic recently and this is a great example of how students have been able to pick up the ball and keep running. Because you have already been facing something. Let's koteli through the entire country in world through loop and so understanding that this is absolutely something that you can do because you've already been doing it.
And so again, just understanding that this importance of the first 4 weeks and then being able to drive further past that too so.
So thinking about some of that.
Driving like a bit forward.
Academic advancement center. So this is a kind of the program that I work in an. So what is the academic advancement center or otherwise known as the AC?
We are federally funded trio student support services program will be support. Specifically, students find first generation, low income and disability backgrounds and what we do is trying to support that in excelling academically, personally, socially, in your journey to earning your bachelors degree. So what are the ways that we do that big big time on academic resources? So understanding that this is, yeah, the place that you want to be. This is the goal that you have to earn your bachelors degree so.
These academic resources are huge. We have a tutoring program that goes with that. We have some academic recovery programs that go with that, as well as just general like academic skills workshops and stuff like that. That's what we utilized to try to help you out to feeling confident and showing your skills in the classroom. We also do have a good chunk of Korean professional development, so understanding like if you are interested in jumping into internships. If you're interested in Graduate School in the future. If you're interested in diving into more of your career.
And embracing that as much as possible when you graduate, we're here to help you out with that as well.
It's all. It's not all serious though some of it is funding games. We do have a good chunk of community events understanding that you are a part of a larger group of 1st generation college students and.
Understand that we do want to join you in community with this as well, which can be really, really supportive. We also do this through holistic advising, so understanding that through our lives, the academics are only a piece of that.
Understanding that financial concerns might come up that familial personal social concerns might come up and we want to be the people there to help you out with no matter what it is to be the first point of contact for you to help you out and support you. But that is I also want to note that if you do not meet.
Eligibility specifically, like for federally funded programs, or if you eligibility, is slightly off. You have questions about that. If you would be eligible for this program, we do have funding for students who who aren't eligible for that, so we can still support them even if like it's kind of thing like a parallel program that we can still support you throughout this.
So a little bit more about the academic advancement center. UM, just by the numbers 'cause I know it's helpful for me to think about the numbers. 1978 is the year that we were established at CSU, so we've been here well over 40 years. So I mean, we have a really great program, really robust.
One of the oldest programs specifically for supporting.
Yeah, that identity for students, so we really want to. We really are proud of that heritage.
Um, we support around 275 students each year, which is if you think about it on the term in the scope of the entire University. That's a pretty close knit community, so there's a huge part for us that we're really proud of. The students that we serve, and we're really happy to be part of that journey.
On average, we do support who you typically admit. Around 100 students each semester. If you look at those numbers nearly how does add it up? That's because we graduate a lot of students as well.
And so yeah, we're really proud of our graduates and getting's new students on board. So yeah, typically we do admit around 100 students each year.
From that number 96% of AC participants successfully continue on their educational journey. So what that retention rate for folks? So understanding that it's really quite beneficial for students to stick with the University. In addition to that and connect it is that 97% of our participants are in good academic standing with Sue.
So I don't know, but like I don't know about you, but for me I was not the best student in high school and so it was a challenge for me to think of myself in an academic space when school started. When specifically have my bachelors degree started and so being able to have a space to say, like, you know, I could work on academics. I can work on some of my goals to be involved in, to think about career path and stuff like that. It's it's hugely important for students, and so being able to see yourself as.
Academic standing and being in, you know, doing academically well is really important for us, so.
In the last piece there is students who participate in the AC actually graduate at higher rates compared to CSU students overall. So that's something that we're very proud of. We're really proud of the work that our students do in our center, and we're just here to cheer you on in to support you. Absolutely will never anything that comes up with that so.
So kind of come with that comes up. What does that look like? What does our program mean for that? Well, this is kind of like the general outline of our program, so one of the thing.
That we like to highlight is to be able to think about transitions. So what we do is we have a program called arrive and this is takes place within your first semester at CSU or with our program.
So arrive is very community based. We want to be able to connect with other students who are in similar shoes as you and being able to share, you know, are there things that you're stressed out about? Are there things that questions that you've had that you're wondering? Arrive is a place that we address some of those things as well as provide you other resources to be able to take further within, to take further for the rest of your college career. So let's go.
The next part of it is thrive, which is a nice like big chunk of it. This would take place in your second semester throughout your third year, so already one of the big things about.
One of the big things about the academic advancement center is that this is a program that will stick with you throughout the entire time you're at CSU, and the way that we do that is through our thrive and thrive grad programs. So thrive again, is being able to provide you really great, you know, fun activities and to be able to.
Connect with the community and larger in all colors.
Yeah, address any questions as well, so I'm going to attract by this this photo here because I forgot it was this photo. But this is actually us. We went to a pumpkin Patch because we were, you know, hey, let's go pumpkin Patch together. So this is all of our students on a hay ride going through and so we like to do fun things and.
Yeah, to be able to connect with community, so it's kind of something to consider there and then. Our last phase is of course Dr grad, so in your last year you have participated thread grad, which again helps out with a lot of that career in Graduate School preparation. Whatever your goals are, that's what we're going to aim towards in thread grad to address some of that. So there's some of our who are recent graduates, so really proud of their accomplishments.
One question that did pop up is teachers and Ladd lab hours in the academic center at Front Range and do that CSU. So the way that we kind of run this. Actually that's kind of nice.
Um is that In addition to all of this, yeah, general kind of like structured program. If that's good for you, we also do have really good, flexible options as well, so and that would be something that every single student who is a participant at the academic advancement center also paired with a professional retention specialist. So I got someone like myself. There's also like six others in the office who meet with students, and So what we do is, yeah, we really prioritize getting to know you building up and.
Trying to identify the goals that you are and so we can absolutely set up some some office hours. I have some students that I meet with twice a semester. That's like kind of our minimum. I owe some students they meet with every single week and so that's totally up to you. Whatever is more supportive, we do have a nice nice office space that we encourage students to come visit us. Check out the computer lab, come join in tutoring or just hang out, grab a snack and just hang out with this and that's totally fine. An R space is really well suited to.
Whatever kind of flavor do you like within? Uh, yeah. You're kind of academic support.
So let's see here Next up. Yeah, if you think about the academic Advancement Center, one of the nice things about us is that we do collaborate quite well with quite a variety of other academic programs on campus. So even if you kind of on the fence about AC, and you think about other ways to support your academics, these are some examples of that. So big one is collaborative for student achievement. They're housed in the stadium, kind of on the windows side, East side of the stadium. They have a ton of resources.
One of those resources is actually undeclared advising or health professions advising. So if you're interested in either of those fields, you could find that there.
Yeah, and collaborative student achievement. Huge partner for us that we connect with quite a lot.
Another big thing was academic success coordinators, otherwise known as your advisor. the Institute for learning and teaching, or tilt for short. They host tutoring academic support workshops, so that's a really good connection for you.
Student diversity programs and services. So this would be things like El Centro, the black African-American Cultural Center, Native American Cultural Center, women gender advocacy center, Pride Resource Center Student Disability Center.
Native American Cultural Center. If I didn't say that already, and.
APAC Asian Pacific American Cultural Center. So really really excellent partners for us as well. We want to support your identities and all the identities that you're bringing to the University. So these are really good partners for us as well and we encourage you to connect with them. Another good academic support is just connecting with first generation faculty and staff, so if you were checking through a syllabus and you see that professor says first Gen faculty or if you are going to office hours and you see that there's a sticker or a button or anything like that that says.
1st Generation Student Ally or First Nation graduate. That kinda thing. Just to note that that is not a mistake that is very intentional. First generation faculty and staff have been awesome in expressing that they want to be able to connect with their fish generation students.
They have gone through probably similar experiences as you and they want to be there to support you, so I highly encourage that if you do have first donation faculty and staff, please connect with them. The credit card is there going to be really excited to hear from you and to be able to support you. Really, what this boils down to is just being able to find and build your community and support network in the way that best suits you. And of course, often utilizing those resources and asking for help is a sign of wisdom and strength, and so we encourage you to be able to utilize these in the way that makes sense for you.
And that's kind of it for our program. Do you have any questions? Yes, give it. Give it a little moment there. I feel like I've been talking a lot. Any questions that are coming up for folks?
If you want, I can also kind of, Yeah.
Scroll through things a little bit too much here.
Neaki Moss
10:36:29 AM
what about the fostering program?
OK, one question coming up about what about the fostering program? So we do connect with.
Fostering success program that is one of our close partners as well, so they will be doing outraged for all the students who connecting with that program as well. And if you're not already connected to us, they're going to be sending our information to you as well. That is one of our big programs in particular be able to connect to community. Being able to go further with that, an understanding like what are your areas of support do you need? But yes, that is absolutely one of our connecting partners that we would do so.
Keep an eye out for that because they will probably be reaching out to you.
Any other questions I can also put up here? Some of our contact information. Our program is application based, again connecting to that we take on 100 students out of how many thousands of 1st generation students that we have. So applications are important for us. That application cycle is due July 1st and so.
I get a lot of questions about like what's in the application. The application is really to help us understand how we can best support you again, I feel like I'm saying that a lot, but it really goes into a lot of understanding, like the specific goals that you have and the ways that you want to that you feel like you could utilize support so.
The application includes stuff such as like we do require tax information to verify like income and stuff like that. If students do have questions about financial aid, we absolutely dive into that with students as well, and so that's why that's helpful for us applications. We want to hear about your previous academic journey, say in the past that you just really hate math, and that's something that yeah, we want to be able to help you out with as we are transitioning in.
Applications also ask you for. Yeah, just kind of identifying those goals for yourself and for us to be able to dive in further. Once you get started so.
We do have an office location. It's currently not available right now, so if you are visiting campus.
I don't even know that he won't give it back to you about. We're not currently at our office right now. We are available online though, for the entire summer, so please utilize that phone number if you want to give us a call that will connect to our admin support and we can get in touch with you. That way. We also have an email address there, two AC underscore receptionist collegestate.edu to address any other concerns. There's also actually on our website, ac.colostate.edu.
There is a chat box function, so if you have like a smaller question that does pop up while you're maybe doing the application or thinking about, you know CSU questions. Things like that. Please check out the chat feature and we can get back to your pretty quick that way. I also want to mention that.
Yeah, mention that this is a really good place to draw some connections and so please utilize like my email address as well. I guess I could type that in there.
My email address. If you have any questions is Richard Guzman at Colostate.
Ricky Guzman
10:39:52 AM
richard.guzman@colostate.edu
Video about the traffic is there for you. All need to get in touch with me.
But yeah, please please please get connected with us. The application is available totally online there at that link. Any other questions here? OK, we do have other things.
Lali Suarez
10:40:12 AM
Is there anything that is required of you once you are part of AAC?
Anything that required once you do become part of the.
AC actually yes we do. We do have a couple of requirements and these requirements are mainly focused around trying to make sure that, yeah, that you're connected with the resources that we really, really just for you. So for us the requirements in your first semester are going to be this arrive seminar.
We do ask that you yeah join in that you know, have fun with it and to connect with other students. The other requirement is throughout your years at CSU is to keep us connected to that specifically. Utilizing your retention specialist. So we want to make sure that we're monitoring progress. Overall, that you know if you're meeting goal is. If you're connecting those things. So we do ask that you meet with us at least twice a semester and then on top of that, we hope that.
We have programs and yeah options for you to be able to utilize throughout your years at CSU as well, so that would be like the requirements that we ask. So meaning with your attention specialist and.
One, uh, OK, couple things coming up here.
Let's see here. Yes, you do need to be a CSU student in order to enroll, and that goes for both academic advancement center as well as.
Yes, for fasting success programs. This is a program that's available for transfer students. Absolutely, that's actually a huge chunk of our our populations is that we really do embrace having transfer students and a lot of transfer students come with really great experiences and stuff like that that we want to highlight first students. And so if you are transferring in, please please, please get in contact with us. We would love to talk about ways that we can support you. And yeah, I think the understanding that.
Your your story might look a little bit different and your needs may look a little bit different. Since you been doing classes undergraduate already and so we can definitely explore that further. But yes, we absolutely accept transfer students.
Any other questions folks have?
Well, I think we can call it pretty good there.
Thank you so much for joining me today. Um, yeah again, if you do have questions, concerns anything at all, please send me an email. Happy to hear from you. Really excited to have you join in for this time. Yeah, take a look at our website and I hope to hear from you all soon.
Thanks everyone, have a great rest of your day.