Don't Drop Out, Drop In: A Workshop for At-Risk Students
This article describes a workshop that is targeted at students overcoming academic difficulties after a one-semester suspension. Participants are encouraged to use campus resources, empowered to make better personal and academic decisions, and given an opportunity to connect with other students and the university as a whole. This workshop represents an efficient intervention method that can increase retention and is easily transferable to other universities.
Contributor Notes
All three authors are academic advisors in the Department of Student Academic Services for the Colleges of Arts and Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Interested readers may contact them by E-mail: Carolyn Brooks-Harris (cbh@advisers.hawaii.edu); Val Mori (vm@advisers.hawaii.edu); and Lynne Higa (lmh@advisers.hawaii.edu).
Outlines and worksheets for the workshop, as well as academic policies for the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa described in this article, may be downloaded from the Arts and Sciences Student Academic Services Web site at www.cassas.hawaii.edu/success.
