Support Services
This program is based on the Supplemental Instruction model.
What is the PASS program?
FSU honors six of these with bronze busts near the Medical School, including Paul Dirac and Sir Harold W. Kroto.
Who are the Nobel Laureates?
This emerging program, abbreviated as PRE, seeks to provide support for students referred by faculty on a case-by-case basis
What is the “Proactive Referral and Engagement” program?
Abbreviated as “SLS”, this course prefix is used for many courses taught within ACE.
What is “Student Life Skills”?
This document serves as a road map to instructor expectations.
What is a syllabus?
This service offers drop-in assistance for students in college algebra through calculus III.
What is the Math Studio?
According to a 2016 survey, this country represents the highest population of FSU’s international student community
What is China?
This is the term for the phenomenon where transfer students are overwhelmed by the four-year college experience during their first semester.
What is “transfer shock”?
Freshman earning a GPA of 1.99 and below must enroll in this study skills course
What is SLS 1122?
This process refers to thinking about your own thinking.
What is metacognition?
How to Get Control of your Time, Making Notes (not taking them!), & Strategies for Test Preparation
What are the ACE Workshops?
This college was once the third largest women’s college in the United States and would later become the Florida State University.
What is the Florida State College for Women?
This college enrolls the most transfer students and graduates the most transfer students every year.
What is the College of Social Science and Public Policy.
This course targets support towards transfer students who have experienced challenges adjusting to the academic expectations of Florida State University.
What is SLS 3140?
In the revised version of this model, “evaluating” changed from the 6th level to the 5th level.
What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?
This service typically supports over 40 different courses at FSU across multiple subject areas, including math, physics, accounting, biology, chemistry, and computer science.
What is the Learning Studio?
This College was the first college founded at Florida State University in 1901.
What is the College of Arts & Sciences?
The PRE program seeks to deliver support to students before this general semester milestone.
What are midterms?
This course provides training in various areas related to peer learning assistance across a variety of disciplines.
What is SLS 3717?
This model refers includes increased motivation, learning, success, and positive emotions.
What is the Motivation Cycle?
Students seeking help creating a weekly study routine or developing a success plan would utilize this ACE service
What is a Personal Academic Consultation (PAC)?
Composed in 1956 by Charlie Carter, this song serves as the Alma Mater for Florida State University
What is “High O’er Towering Pines”?
Tallahassee Community College is the number one feeder school for transfer students at FSU. This community college is the second.
What is Gulf Coast Community College (Panama City)?
“Keep the Faith”, “Stand in Your Power”, “Learn the Neurobiological Basis”, and “Start Easy, End Strong”.
What are the “Changing Student Mindset” strategies?