A Helpful Hint: Get
To Know Your Success Team Members
As some
members of the Pride may know, Hofstra has established
success teams for each student. Students can learn who their success team
members are by logging into the Hofstra portal, clicking on the Hofstra Online
tab on the left hand side, and clicking on Your Success Team under the Student
Services section. A student’s success team will be made up of their advising dean,
their financial services counselor, the Dean of Students, the Departmental
Chair of your student’s program, and the Director for off campus living and
commuter students or a residential life director for resident students.
Students
should become well acquainted with their success team members and learn where
their offices are on campus. As a Hofstra student myself, I heavily relied on
my advising dean every semester to help me make a schedule for the upcoming
semester. While it is somewhat easy for students to register for class
themselves once they are familiar with the Degree Works Report, advising
deans often teach students what different degrees can be fit into their
undergraduate career here at Hofstra. For example, my advising dean layed out a
potential schedule for me and showed me that I was able to double major with a
minor and still graduate a semester early! I always knew how to register and
read my Degree Works Report, however, without my advising dean’s guidance I would have never
figured out for myself how to fit in an additional major during my time as an
undergraduate student. Members of the success team such as a student’s advising
dean can give crucial advice as a student runs into dilemmas during their
academic career. For example, as a commuter, the director of commuting students
and off campus living was a part of my success team and the commuter
newsletters often gives helpful advice for leaving and coming to campus.
Students will be aware of the basic necessities for being a successful member
of the Pride as they enter the upcoming semester because orientation thoroughly
prepares new students. However, members of the success team can give your
student that key piece of advice that will make their education an exceptional
one. As an alumni who has been through it here at Hofstra, I urge students to get to know their success team members today!