Academic Planning
The number of credit hours needed to graduate with a Bachelor's Degree
What is 120?
A reading strategy that allows you to take in the major points of a passage without the active use of notations and annotations. Often the first step in reading.
What is skimming?
A campus resources that provides tutoring for all SU math classes.
What is the Math Lab?
The author of Atomic Habits.
Who is James Clear?
An annual event, involving running rodents, that takes place in April each year.
What is the Rat Race?
The number of credit hours for most undergraduate classes
What is 3?
Includes letters, first editions of books, legal documents, and other texts.
What is a primary source?
Online tutoring service, available through Canvas, that allows access to subject based tutoring.
What is TutorMe?
Putting off tasks that need to be completed. We all do it to a certain extent. Could be because of lack of energy, lack of focus, or fear of failure.
What is procrastination?
The President of Spalding University and the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Tori Murden McClure?
The minimum GPA required to graduate with a Bachelor's degree.
What is 2.0
A note taking strategy that involves drawing a horizontal line across your paper near the bottom (the summary area) and then drawing a vertical column to create a recall column and a notes column.
What is the Cornell Method?
A campus resource that works with students to develop academic reading skills.
You can work with a Spalding staff member or graduate student to map out your assignments in a planner.
What is success coaching?
Sisters who founded Spalding University.
Who are the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth?
The number of credit hours one can take in a single semester for the same tuition cost.
What is 12-18 credit hours?
You can multitask while studying, you can highlight only the main points, and studying effectively is effortless.
What are myths about studying?
This group is students programming for students. The group works to provide quality, fun, and educational events and programs for the student body. Any student can be involved in the planning and selection of events.
What is the Campus Activities Board?
Instead of changing everything at once, what concept can you use to make small, incremental, and manageable changes?
What is habit stacking?
The most recent winner of a SLIAC Championship.
Who is the Spalding Women's Soccer team?
What is an academic advisor?
An active reading strategy that that includes Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review
What is SQ3R?
Not sure how to start your paper, and think Chat GPT is a good idea? This is where you should go instead.
What is the Writing Center?
A time management strategy that plans for 25 minute intervals of work. There are six steps:
1. Decide on the task to be done, Set the timer to the desired interval, Work on the task, When the timer goes off, put a check mark on a piece of paper, If you have fewer than four check marks, take a short (3-5 minute) break and return to step one, After four intervals, take a longer break (15-30 minutes).
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
The year that Spalding University was founded.
What is 1814?