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10 Ways to Support Your Spartan

10 Ways to Support Your Spartan

10 ways to support your student. Encourage your student to do the following:

  1. Visit their professor during office hours
  2. See their Academic Advisor twice a semester
  3. Know and use your campus resources early and often
  4. Encourage them to get to know people who are from different places and have different life experiences
  5. Encourage your student to engage in experiences such as Education Abroad, Service-Learning, and Undergraduate Research
  6. Help them discover ways to invest in and connect to the MSU community through academics, leadership involvement and/or engagement with their peers
  7. Remind them to read their MSU emails
  8. Check in on their time management skills and behaviors
  9. Ask them what goals they have set for themselves, both by semester and the academic year
  10. Remind them that help-seeking behavior is a successful behavior