The Center for Academic Engagement (CAE) is celebrating 10 years of serving students at Hudson Valley. In honor of that achievement, we’d like to highlight a bit of our history and promote the services that we offer.
The first CAE data recorded was for the fall of 2014 when students visited the CAE office 921 times. Today, with four full-time staff assisted by four part-time academic coaches, we recorded seeing 216 students during their 1,355 visits in the Spring and Summer of this year. Students visit the office for a variety of reasons, but primarily to receive academic coaching from a holistic perspective, addressing any challenge that could be interfering with their academic work. Academic coaches help students with:
- time management
- staying organized and on task
- goal setting
- developing self-advocacy skills
- learning how and when to seek tutoring
- developing or improving communication skills with professors, advisors, staff, etc.
- navigating the college process and the transition into a college environment
The academic coaching sessions conducted by staff members comprise only a portion of what they do at the CAE. Below is a brief outline of the work that staff members do to support student persistence and retention:
- Refer students to campus resources, including the Learning Assistance Centers, Science Study Center, Language Lab, Library, Center for Careers and Transfer, Counseling Center, Center for Access & Assistive Technology (CAAT), Financial Aid, EOP and Health Services, to name a few
- Run the Success Amongst Student Parents (SASP) program, supporting students who are single parents
- Administer the Graduation Achievement Placement (GAP) program and support GAP students
- Organize and administer the Student Senate Athletic Retention Program (SSARP) for student-athletes
- Maintain the Collegiate Academic Support Program (CASP)
- Offer short workshops upon faculty request on the following topics: Time Management, Planning for Academic Success, Developing Successful Study Habits, Successful Test Taking Strategies, Overcoming Procrastination, and Exam Preparations.
- Teach College Forum courses
- Provide presentations to College Forum classes that visit the CAE office
- Support students through participation in various student club activities
- Take part in Admissions visits and participate in Student Orientation
- Serve on committees across campus
- Process information for the College Success Referral System (CSRS)
- Evaluate student applications for emergency funding from the HVCC Foundation
- Register students in need with Unite Us, the Healthy Alliance’s referral platform, to help them access social services and care throughout the region
- Maintain a student-centered computer lab
- Nominate and honor CAE Engagement Award winners
For further information or to refer any students to our Center for Academic Engagement, please email us at cae@hvcc.edu. To reach us by phone, please call (518) 629-7550, or visit our website at www.hvcc.edu/cae.