College Services/Resources
This is a place where you can go to study, get information, and receive personal academic help (e.g. with writing essays).
Library
These are times when your professor is available to talk with you.
Office Hours
This is the course of study a student chooses between their freshman and junior years.
Major
This is the skill of learning how to manage your responsibilities and set priorities for your schedule.
Time Management
Name three ways that you can get money to pay for college.
Scholarships (merit-based), grants (need-based), loans (delayed repayment), jobs, paid internships, savings, family/friend donations, etc.
This is the office you visit if you have questions about your student loans, scholarships, or grants.
Financial Aid
Educational programs in other countries offered by a student’s home school are called...
Study Abroad Programs
Name 3 important factors in choosing a college.
Cost, academic programs, proximity to home, size, extracurricular activities, social environment, etc.
True or False: In college, you have to give the school permission for them to share information about you with your parents.
True
This is the name of the form that students must fill out to apply for federal financial aid.
FAFSA
This is the office on campus that can help you find jobs, practice for interviews, and meet workplace expectations.
Career Center
This opportunity allows students to get work experience and make professional connections before graduating and getting full-time jobs.
Internships
College students generally need to study for how many hours outside of class for each hour in class?
3 Hours
True or False: Students caught cheating or plagiarizing may fail the assignment and the course, or face consequences such as probation, suspension, or expulsion from college.
True
This is the maximum amount of hours per week of paid work recommended for college students, to also allow time for their academic studies.
20 Hours
This office can help students with their social and cultural needs, such as clubs, organizations, and events.
Student Life / Affairs
Notetakers for classes, extended time on tests, preferential seating, large print books and enlarged handouts are examples of...
Accommodations
This is the name of the type of college that offers a wide range of academic programs and majors.
Liberal Arts College
Whose responsibility is it to provide documentation of a disability and/or request more accommodations?
The Student
True or False: While receiving a subsidized loan, students accumulate interest (an extra amount due later for repayment) while in school.
False. (With a subsidized loan, the same amount you borrow and owe stays the same while in school.)
This is the office on campus where you can go if you are having trouble adjusting to college life, depression, difficult relationships, and other concerns.
Counseling Center
Professors will give you a copy of this at the beginning of every semester and expect you to keep it handy so that you can refer to it for course policies, due dates, and the course calendar.
Syllabus
This is a type of college that offers a more hands-on, career-focused education.
Technical College
This is a new responsibility that most college students need to learn when they start paying their own bills and saving money.
Budgeting
This is free assistance awarded by the federal government on the basis of need. It can be used for college tuition, room & board, and other educational expenses. It requires NO repayment.
Federal Pell Grants