Key
for Success: Check out these links and PowerPoint presentations and browse information on skills that
will help you succeed in college .
Assertiveness
~ Budgeting ~ Career Planning ~ Computer
Use for Beginners ~ Diversity
~ Eating Disorders
International
Student Issues ~ Juggling
Roles ~ Math ~ Memory ~ Note
Taking ~ Parenting
Relationships ~ Study Skills ~ Self-Esteem ~ Stress Management
Test
Anxiety ~ Test Taking ~
Time
Management ~ Transfer Planning ~ Wellness
~ Writing
Assertiveness
Helpful
Hints for Assertive Behavior
http://www2.hsc.edu/counseling/selfhelp/assert.html
Improving Assertive Behavior
http://www.livestrong.com/article/14699-improving-assertive-behavior/
Budgeting
American Education Services Program, called The Common
Cents Tour is designed to teach students how to manage their money.
http://www.youcandealwithit.com
Manage Your Money Study at Home Course
http://ohioline.osu.edu/mym/index.html
Career
Planning
PowerPoint
Presentations:
Interests
and Personality
Resources
for Exploring the World of Work
Networking
and Informational Interviewing
Decision
Making
Planning
Computer
Use for Beginners
All
About the World Wide Web
http://www.imaginarylandscape.com/helpweb/www/www.html
Computer Classes for Beginners
Diversity
Master
Student PowerPoint Presentation
On the Importance of Diversity in Higher
Education
http://www.fdu.edu/visitorcenter/diversity.html
Eating Disorders
National Eating Disorders
Association. Includes warning signs, types of eating disorders, and how to
help the person with an eating disorder.
http://www.kidsource.com/nedo/warning.html
Eating Disorders Information
(Montana Technology of University of Montana).
Includes definitions,
who is at risk, health risks, how to help, and resources.
http://www.mtech.edu/student_life/counseling/eatingdisorder.htm
International
Student Issues
What is culture shock? What
are the symptoms? Stages. How to fight it.
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/CGuanipa/cultshok.htm
Possible
adjustment issues for international students
http://www.wright-counseling.com/Diversity//InternationalStudentAdjustment.htm
International Student
Organization – Information on health insurance, newsletter for international
students
www.isoa.org
Offers language specialty
dictionaries, language identifiers, and links to other language sites
www.yourdictionary.com
Juggling Roles
Balancing Work
and Family
http://www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/4186.htm
Home organizing and time
management tips for busy people
http://organizedtimes.com/
Ways to
Improve Time Use
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5009.html
Working
Mom’s Refuge – The Art of Juggling
http://www.momsrefuge.com/juggling/index.html
Math
Professor Friedman’s Math
Help- Basic Math and Algebra Help for the Community College Adult Learner
http://www.mathpower.com
Free resource for math
review from algebra to differential equations
http://www.sosmath.com/
Math reference tables,
resources, etc.
http://www.math2.org
Memory
The Memory Page - how to
improve memory & techniques for memorization
http://www.thememorypage.net
Memory Tips
Note Taking
Taking Notes from Lectures
http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/ss_notetaking.html
Notebook Organization and
Note Taking
Parenting
Ten Keys to Successful Parenting
http://www.positiveparenting.com/resources/feature_article_001.html
Dealing With Power Struggles
http://www.positiveparenting.com/resources/feature_article_003.html
What is Normal Development?
http://www.positiveparenting.com/resources/feature_article_011.html
Relationships
Master
Student PowerPoint Presentation
Building Healthy
Relationships
http://www.uwec.edu/counsel/pubs/bhr.htm
Resolving Conflict Constructively and
Respectfully
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5196.html
Self-Esteem
How
Does a Lack of Self-Confidence Develop? How
to Improve Self-Confidence.
http://ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/self-con.shtml
Better Self-Esteem
http://www.cmhc.utexas.edu/booklets/selfesteem/selfest.html
Stress
Management
Stress Management
http://ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/stressmanagement.shtml
Study Skills
Study Skills
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html
How to Get an A Plus, and
Never Worry About Your GPA Again
http://www.back2college.com/aplus.htm
SQ3R A Reading/Study Method
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/sq3r.html
Test Anxiety
Test Taking
Test Taking Strategies
http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/test_take.html
Tips for
Better Test Taking
http://www.studygs.net/tsttak1.htm
Time Management
Planning Tool (Microsoft Excel file)
Time and Stress Management
http://www.back2college.com/control.htm
Time Scheduling
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/htimesch.html
Time Management Principals
http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/time_man_princ.html
Transfer
Planning
CollegeSource
http://www.collegesource.org/
u.select
http://www.transfer.org/
Transfer Planning 101
http://www.cscc.edu/Counseling/acdadv/TP101.html
Wellness
Wellness Wheel
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/wellnesscenter/wellnesswheel.html
Nutrition and Your Health
http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2000/document/frontcover.htm
American Heart Association - Healthy Lifestyle
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200009
Writing
The Write Place Catalogue includes resources
for research papers, citing sources, grammar, punctuation, etc.
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/catalogue.html
CSCC Writing Center
(includes online tutorials on APA style, MLA format, overview of
punctuation, etc.)
http://www.cscc.edu/comm/wc.htm
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