Meet the Peer Mentors ...... 2-4 Featured SSS Scholars ........... 4 SSS Funding Renewed ........... 5 Alumni at Grad School ........... 5 Fall 2015 Graduates............... 5 First Year Experience ............. 6 Best Foot Forward ................. 7 Workshops ............................ 8 TRIO/SSS News ...................... 8 SSS Scholarship ...................... 9 SSS in Global Honors ............. 9 Spring 2015 Dean’s List ......... 9 Upward Bound at LHU ......... 10 Community Service ............. 11 Meet the Co-Editors ............ 12 Student Support Services Department of Academic Development & Counseling 117/118/126 Ulmer Hall Lock Haven University Lock Haven, PA 17745 (570) 484–2409/3847/2324 Website: www.lhup.edu/ colleges/Business_Information/ academic_development/ student_support/ Facebook: LHU TRIO Student Support Services www.facebook.com/SSSatLHU Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania Volume IX ● Issue I Fall 2015 By Michael Eubanks Inside this Issue: SSS is Support for College Life and Learning The TRIO Student Support Services Program, or SSS, is federally funded by the Department of Education. The primary mission of the program is to provided additional support and assistance to first-generation college students who meet financial and other eligibility requirements. For more than 30 years, SSS has served the Lock Haven University community. The program offers academic support and counseling through participation in a First Year Seminar course, which introduces incoming students to a broad spectrum of strategies for academic success. In addition, members of the program have the opportunity to participate in workshops throughout the academic year, focusing on subjects such as financial literacy, career planning, and personal development. The program is now expanding its focus beyond first year support to include such subjects as graduate school preparedness. The program also offers support through peer mentors, peer tutoring, and the writing specialist. Social and cultural events, such as free movie nights at Lock Haven’s Roxy Theater, are also offered by the program. Additionally, special events such as a trip to New York City, or community service opportunities were also made available to SSS scholars this fall. The goal of the program is to support eligible students in their goals for academic and career success. Ultimately, it is designed to improve overall grade point averages, retention rates, and degree completion of the participants. Students interested in learning more about, or applying for the program, can find more information at the following link: http://www.lhup.edu/colleges/Business_Information/academic_development/ student_support/TRIOSSSApplication.pdf Above photos L to R: First Year Students & Peer Mentors at Family Game Night during the Best Foot Forward summer bridge program, SSS Scholars at a financial literacy workshop, and SSS Scholars at a finals week destress event.
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Meet the Peer Mentors ...... 2-4
Featured SSS Scholars ........... 4
SSS Funding Renewed ........... 5
Alumni at Grad School ........... 5
Fall 2015 Graduates ............... 5
First Year Experience ............. 6
Best Foot Forward ................. 7
Workshops ............................ 8
TRIO/SSS News ...................... 8
SSS Scholarship ...................... 9
SSS in Global Honors ............. 9
Spring 2015 Dean’s List ......... 9
Upward Bound at LHU ......... 10
Community Service ............. 11
Meet the Co-Editors ............ 12
Student Support Services
Department of Academic
Development & Counseling
117/118/126 Ulmer Hall
Lock Haven University
Lock Haven, PA 17745
(570) 484–2409/3847/2324
Website: www.lhup.edu/
colleges/Business_Information/
academic_development/
student_support/
Facebook: LHU TRIO Student
Support Services
www.facebook.com/SSSatLHU
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania Volume IX ● Issue I Fall 2015
By Michael Eubanks
Inside this Issue:
SSS is Support for College Life and Learning
The TRIO Student Support Services Program, or SSS, is federally funded by the
Department of Education. The primary mission of the program is to provided additional
support and assistance to first-generation college students who meet financial and other
eligibility requirements. For more than 30 years, SSS has served the Lock Haven
University community.
The program offers academic support and counseling through participation in a First Year
Seminar course, which introduces incoming students to a broad spectrum of strategies for
academic success. In addition, members of the program have the opportunity to
participate in workshops throughout the academic year, focusing on subjects such as
financial literacy, career planning, and personal development. The program is now
expanding its focus beyond first year support to include such subjects as graduate school
preparedness.
The program also offers support through peer mentors, peer tutoring, and the writing
specialist. Social and cultural events, such as free movie nights at Lock Haven’s Roxy
Theater, are also offered by the program. Additionally, special events such as a trip to
New York City, or community service opportunities were also made available to SSS
scholars this fall.
The goal of the program is to support eligible students in their goals for academic and
career success. Ultimately, it is designed to improve overall grade point averages,
retention rates, and degree completion of the participants.
Students interested in learning more about, or applying for the program, can find more
Above photos L to R: First Year Students & Peer Mentors at Family Game Night during the Best Foot Forward summer bridge program, SSS Scholars at a financial literacy workshop, and SSS Scholars at a finals week destress event.
Upward Bound students from the 2015 six-week summer program
visited Philadelphia, PA. Twenty-one students from UB clubs at
Bucktail, Central Mountain, Jersey Shore, and Williamsport Area
High Schools attended this year.
Upward Bound Summer Success
Volume IX Issue I Page 11
Community Service By Michael Eubanks
One of the goals of LHU’s Student Support Services program is
to provide students with opportunities for community
engagement. Members had the opportunity to participate in a
community service project on October 24th. Student volunteers
and SSS staff donated their time and effort at the Lock Haven
branch of The Salvation Army Thrift Store. The thrift store
resells donated items, and uses the proceeds to fund
humanitarian programs in the Lock Haven Area. The Salvation
Army engages in programs that provide for the poor, and also
assists with counseling and rehabilitation programs of various
kinds, including prison ministries. The non-profit organization
is heavily dependent on volunteers and donations.
Students and staff volunteered their time to help sort and
prepare donated items for display in the Thrift Store. In
addition to general cleaning of the location, volunteers
helped to sort newly donation clothing and merchandise in
order to prepare them for sale.
Freshman SSS scholar Anshu Choudhary attended the event at
the Salvation Army. Speaking of the efforts focus on
community engagement, Anshu noted that "The community
service activity broaden[ed] my horizons because it made me
meet new people from [other] cultures."
Anshu also recognized that service in the community can
develop compassion, promote understanding, and instill
gratitude in its participants. "The community service activity
showed me that I shouldn't have too much ego. Because I
never what's going to happen in life. I saw some people who
were wondering about their financial status. I should be
thankful that my parents provide so much me so that I don't
have to depend on loans."
Anshu Choudhary
Leikpele Dolo
Samantha Eisenhart
Natalia Fickel
Ellora Figured
Ruth Fultz
Anna Kaizar
Catherine Mohn
Natasha Ortiz
Chad Sands
Community Service Participants
Ellora Figured, Anna Kaizar, and Samantha Eisenhart sort
books out front in the Salvation Army Thrift Store.
Natasha Ortiz and Chad Sands and another volunteer, Luz
Burgos, sort through mountains of clothes in the back of the store
to prep them for sale.
Volume IX Issue I Page 12
Meet the Co-Editors Alyson Harden is a freshman with a Pre-Physician
Assistant major and a psychology minor. Her hometown is
Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, which is about ten minutes
from Giants stadium and New York City. She is a Global
Honors student and is part of the track and field team on
campus. When she isn’t in class or on the track, she is
spending time at meetings for different clubs that interest her.
One of those clubs include SSS Scholars. Once school work
calms down, Alyson likes to enjoy time with her teammates.
Throughout the week, she looks forward to free time that
allows her to talk to her mom, grandparents and sister.
Although she misses her family, she is starting to love her
second home by gazing at the mountains and rivers here at
Lock Haven. Music and a good attitude gets her through her
busy days. After
graduation, Alyson
plans to work in the
Emergency Room as
Michael Eubanks is a junior , major ing in English with a
concentration in writing. He is from South Williamsport,
Pennsylvania. He serves on the staff of The Crucible, LHU’s
student produced literary and visual arts magazine. Michael also
contributes regularly to the student-produced newspaper, The
Eagle Eye. He is an active participant in the English Club, a
member of Sigma Tau Delta, an international honor society for
English, and a member of SSS Scholars. Michael enjoys writing
poetry and recently placed in a statewide writing contest.
The SSS Newsletter is produced through an Experiential Learning designed by Dr. Julie A. Story and facilitated by Dr. MG Gainer, Writing Specialist, Student Support Services, Departments of English and Academic Development & Counseling. Students studying English, writing, editing, communications, document design, and/or public relations gain Experiential Learning (EL) units and practical learning experiences outside of the classroom serving as editors and writers.
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