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