Program Goals

- To increase the retention and graduation rates of students
- To promote excellence
- Gain support for academic pursuits and personal development.
- o promote students’ self-confidence
- To advance students’ knowledge of campus resources
- To encourage students’ development of supportive relationships with other students, faculty and staff (community building)
- To introduce the students to an academic discipline
- To help students develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for successful completion of their academic goals
- To develop leadership skills to enable the students to become future peer mentors and leaders
- To connect the students with professional and academic organizations


