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Advising Program Receives National Recognition

GREENSBORO – The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Student Academic Services has won a national advising award.

The department will receive the 2004 National Academic Advising Association award for Strategies for Success, a program directed by Retention Coordinator Cindra Kamphoff.

Strategies for Academic Success began in 1999 and is a course required for students placed on academic probation at the end of their first semester.

The eight-week class aims to teach students motivational and success strategies and to accept responsibility for academic and professional decisions. This takes place in a small-class environment where the student-instructor typically does not exceed 10-to-1.

To evaluate the program’s outcome, Student Academic Services studied the retention, hope and optimism levels among participating students and found each of the factors increased as a result of the course.

“We’ve presented this at several advising conferences, and people are really excited about it, especially when they see the results that we’ve had, such as increases in retention, hope and optimism,” Kamphoff said.

That enthusiasm has translated into practical interest from several other institutions that are using the course as a model for their own programs, according to Kamphoff.

Kamphoff will receive the award on Oct. 6, at the NACADA annual conference in Cincinnati.

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