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