YSU CENTER FOR STUDENT PROGRESS Programs offered by the center and their success rates:

First-year student services include peer assistance, mentoring and midterm reports. Of the 584 freshmen who visited the center five times or more in 2001-2002, 82 percent returned for their sophomore year.
Individual Intervention Services offer professional coordinators to assist students on a one-on-one basis. The Gaining Opportunity to Achieve Learning Success program for incoming freshmen, new in 2001, offers additional services to first-year students. Among those in the GOALS program, 89 percent re-enrolled for fall 2002, compared with 56 percent in a control group; also, 83 percent were in good academic standing, compared with 67 percent.
Supplemental instruction programs offer 107 courses; the class-specific study sessions are headed by graduate students who have already taken the course and sit through it again. From fall 1998 to fall 1999, 88 percent of students who used the service stayed at YSU; students using the service had more As, Bs and Cs than those not using it in 92 percent of the courses.
Student tutorial services offer free individual and group tutoring in various areas including accounting, biology, chemistry, economics, engineering, history, physics and psychology. All students who were tutored once a week for 15 weeks (17 students total) received grades of at least a C in fall 2001.
Multicultural Student Services offer mentoring by faculty/staff, coordinate awareness programs and co-sponsor cultural events. Of participants, 79 percent were in good standing academically in 2001-2002.
Adult Learner Services offer extended orientation, adult peer mentoring and academic, decision-making, goal-setting and other assistance for students 25 years and older. Statistics were not provided on the adult learner program.