Summer Programs
The Summer Program is a comprehensive, highly structured, data driven, 7 week program designed to identify, develop, and enhance skills necessary for students to achieve academic excellence at Seton Hall University. The Program is designed to identify students' strengths and weaknesses, and provide the necessary academic and other support services to enhance the students' strengths while seeking to eliminate identified weaknesses. The Summer Program integrates assessment, instruction, tutoring, educational enrichment, information technology, counseling, and community service.
Academic:
This component provides students with their first exposure to college academic curricula. Emphasis is placed on showing the students how to succeed in an environment that stresses academic rigor while providing needed academic support. Academic services assist students to develop specific skills: computation, writing, problem solving, critical thinking and others that serve as foundation tools to be utilized in their academic pursuits.
These services provided by the Center for Learning, Instruction and Assessment (CLIA), offer support to students enrolled in university courses. Working in conjunction with the academic teaching staff, the Center works to maximize student achievement by addressing any weaknesses in skills or preparation identified by the students themselves, by the university teaching staff or by testing. These are handled on an individual basis and/or in group settings. An extensive schedule of tutorial and educational enrichment sessions is provided for each student based on need. These sessions utilize professional and student tutors who have appropriate content skills and have been trained in tutorial and educational enrichment methodology.
Counseling:
This component helps students focus on their behavior patterns and various aspects of themselves which are essential to successfully negotiate their environment i.e., understanding their culture and that of others, good interpersonal skills, identifying career/life goals, identifying resources, etc. It provides students with interpretative mechanisms to discuss their concerns and problems, which revolve around the academic and social transition from high school to college. The counseling staff guides students in an understanding of interrelationship between the academic and counseling components through activities that reinforce the two areas.
Testing and Assessment Component:
Tests and interviews are conducted prior to and throughout the summer program by the CLIA in conjunction with the Counseling Component. Data provided by these areas help in academic placement and the design of counseling programs for the students. Testing and assessment provide a firm base for assisting instructors, academic support staff, and counselors to better understand student needs.
Community Service:
Each incoming first year student is expected to provide community service under the auspices of the Center for Community Service and Service-learning. This provides EOP first year students with the opportunity to become involved in special projects, which promote social and civic responsibility while strengthening and rebuilding the Greater Newark Community.