Adjusting to college academics can be a challenge, but if you take advantage of our numerous academic services and support systems, we're confident you'll come out on top.
In this starter, 1-credit course (RIC 100), you'll forge friendships with fellow students and make connections with faculty, staff, and upperclass students who will guide and advocate for you – all while learning RIC and getting prepared for college academics. During this 50-minute weekly course you'll learn college expectations, financial literacy, cultural competency, campus resources, learning styles, and more. At RIC, we prepare you for success from the start.
Advising at RIC means ongoing academic support throughout your time here. Advising helps you navigate course selection and major program requirements, keeps you on track to graduation, provides career advice, and beyond. We will provide you with an initial advisor, to get you acclimated to RIC and to help you explore our majors, and then you will be assigned a faculty advisor, who will help you through the ins and outs of your particular program.
Our staff members are dedicated and trained across many subjects and disciplines to assist students in identifying their learning needs, developing new strategies for effective study habits, and building successful techniques for continued progress. And if a particular course or subject matter is giving you trouble, we'll gladly work with you to improve your mastery.
Our Center for Disability Access is here to assist you - determining eligibility, facilitating access, and coordinating accommodations for qualified students. If you'd like to contact the Center to get more details about their processes or discuss your particular needs and concerns, please reach out.
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We want to not only aid first-generation and bilingual students in joining our community, but also to ensure that the needed systems are in place to support their academic journeys here. We're proud of these programs and initiatives that do this important work here at RIC.
Like our First-Generation and Bilingual Student programs, our dedication to diversity and equity extends beyond our efforts to create an inclusive student body. It's the services, assisting these students throughout their academic journeys, that support them until graduation.
We're just that kind of community!