Macomb Community College

Schedule
Lunch will be provided

MONDAY
9:30–10am Info Session (Student Success Services)
10–11am Learning Strategies
11–11:30am Lunch
11:30–12:30pm Textbook Reading Strategies

TUESDAY
9:30–10am Info Session (SOS)
10–11am Time Management
11–11:30am Lunch
11:30–12:30pm Note Taking

WEDNESDAY
9:30–10am Info Session (Career Services)
10–11am Test Taking
11–11:30am Lunch
11:30–12:30pm

THURSDAY
Critical Thinking
Summer 2019
Student Success
9:30–10am Info Session (Counseling & Academic Advising)
10–11am Papers, Projects & Presentations
11–11:30am Lunch

Academy
11:30–12:30pm Plagiarism

FRIDAY
9:30–10am Info Session (Mentorship)
10–11am Academic Integrity
11–11:30am Lunch
August 5-9, 2019
11:30–12:30pm Motivation & Anti-Procrastination Monday–Friday 9:30am–12:30pm
South Campus G228
Center Campus H206

MACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE

BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Katherine Lorenzo, Chairperson
Frank Cusumano, Vice Chairperson
Kristi Dean, Secretary
Roseanne DiMaria, Treasurer
Joan Flynn, Trustee
Shelley Vitale, Trustee
Vincent Viviano, Trustee
James O. Sawyer IV, Ed.D., College President
Summer
2019 Student Success Academy
Call Career Services at 586.445.7321 or E-mail careerservices@macomb.edu to register

LEARNING STRATEGIES
Complete a questionnaire to determine your own personal learning style, discover the characteristics of
each learning style, and determine what you can do to enhance learning by using your predominant style

TEXTBOOK READING STRATEGIES

Learn techniques for reading college texts to increase comprehension, develop new highlighting techniques
and textbook marking strategies and discover how to take notes effectively while reading your textbook

TIME MANAGEMENT
Learn how to manage your time as a college student, learn new ways to find time to study within
your busy schedule, and make your own personal study schedule while evaluating and organizing
your obligations and responsibilities

NOTE TAKING
Discover how to get the most from your professional college lectures, learn how to adjust your
note-taking in a variety of lecture situations, and learn how to use to Cornell Method of taking notes

TEST TAKING
Analyze and discuss different types of tests, learn strategies and skills necessary for pre-
planning and studying for various types of tests, and discover how to reduce test anxiety

CRITICAL THINKING
Learn and practice the steps to critical thinking, discover ways to sharpen your logical
thinking skills, and learn why faculty and employers state that possessing this skill is
so very important

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? PAPERS, PROJECTS & PRESENTATIONS

High school graduates and prospective
Make a presentation that has impact, learn when and how to use visuals to enhance
Macomb students
presentations, discover techniques to create an outstanding poster, and evaluate
sample presentations
THE GOAL OF SUMMER ACADEMY IS:
to provide recent high school graduate PLAGIARISM
students and prospective Macomb students
Discover the different types of plagiarism, learn how to avoid and identify possible
with student success skills training, in an
cases of plagiarism
effort to promote academic success and
student retention.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
BENEFITS TO STUDENTS Learn the different types of academic dishonesty, how to avoid them and what
the possible serious consequences are for academic dishonesty
»» Gain student success skills
»» Potential to achieve better grades MOTIVATION & ANTI-PROCRASTINATION
»» Earn a Student Success Skills Discover what motivates you and learn about motivational levels, analyze
completion certificate your educational goals, look at the universal motivating forces at work while
you are a college student, and learn techniques to manage and overcome
»» Earn one Continuing Education Credit procrastination in your studies
for taking ten Student Success Seminars*