Project Success

Project Success is a five-day program for students who want to enhance their academic performance and get a head start on the collegiate experience. Project Success is a great opportunity for first-year students to get a jump-start on college, develop skills that will help them achieve their academic and personal goals, and get ready to be successful college students. All students participating in Project Success are required to move in on Sunday, August 14^th, 2016. All Project Success community, with the exception of the Education Majors, will live in Mills Hall. Project Success for Education Majors will be in Blumberg Hall.

Leadership, Ethics, and Democracy

College is different than high school. Expectations and requirements for studying are more demanding. Unfortunately, some students struggle early in their college career with understanding these differences and achieving academically. Don't be one of them.

First Sycamores

Going to college is a difficult transition for all students, but first-generation students, especially, can benefit from the guidance of a mentor. The ISU's First-Generation Faculty Mentoring Program and Project Success have partnered together to create learning community that provides guidance and support for our students who identify as a first generation college student.

Heroes

This Project Success community focuses on historical and fictional heroes. Students will read excerpts from scholarly articles, autobiographies and biographies, fictional and graphic novels, as well as watch movies and episodes from TV series to better understand heroism.  Subject matter will include, but not be limited to, Sojourner Truth, Winston Churchill, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Wonder Woman, Xena, Harry Potter, Just Mercy, V for Vendetta, Heroes, and Supernatural.  Students will also focus on everyday heroes and acts of personal heroism.

ISUcceed Community

Indiana State University has created a pilot hybrid program "ISUcceed/Project Success" to help our freshmen have a successful transition and first year of college. ISUcceed is a mentoring program designed to address issues that new underrepresented minority college students may face and helps to support students as they become scholars. Project Success, is a summer bridge program that provides an opportunity for you to get a jump-start on college and on your academic success.

A Different World

This Project Success Community will focus on how College is "A Different World" form High School and will highlight useful attributes to navigate, engage and inspire success in college and in life. The course is designed to provide strategies and tips in the following areas: Critical Thinking Skills, Purposeful Resilience, Healthy Relationship Building, Confident Self Awareness, Strong Communication, and Life Long Learning

Living W.E.L.L. (Women Excelling in Leadership and Learning)

This Project Success community will provide involved students a focus on a woman's holistic self, interpersonal relationships, and political, and social issues relevant to women. The course is designed to aid in preparing them for "real world woman" experiences in their work, life, and play. Students will be able to discuss and examine their experiences, achievements and positions in higher education and their greater communities. WELL will focus on academic enrichment and social acclimation by partnering with campus and community resources, such as the Women's Resource Center, Career Center, Sycamore Resolution Program, and Multi-Cultural Affairs.

Television Culture

This Project Success community aims to strengthen your awareness and understanding of the significance of television. Television produces and is produced by culture. Television viewing is a structured social practice that engages viewers in complex interactions with questions of human agency, identity, and social life. Television programming functions pedagogically, providing instruction about how human beings live their daily lives and how they should do so. We will begin our engagement with theories that consider both television programming as cultural product and television viewing as cultural practice. Our concerns include the role of the viewer and the practices of viewing, the narrative structure of television programs, and the specific "messages" told by television stories.

Education Majors

This Project Success community is designed specifically for Elementary and/or Special Education majors. In addition to learning what it means to be a Sycamore, students will be more informed about their role and responsibilities as a BCOE student as well as the role that Bayh College of Education plays in their academic development. Additionally, students enrolled in this section of UNIV 101 will receive intense preparation for the Core Academic Skills Assessment (CASA) exam. If taken during Fall 2015, the University will cover the initial costs of the CASA exam.