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Our relentless pursuit of excellence compels us to create and deliver comprehensive programs and resources to help you realize your full potential.

First Year Experience

First Year Experience (FYE) is an academic program that welcomes you to Â鶹´«Ã½ and helps you make the most of your undergraduate experience. FYE encompasses academic advising, community-building activities, assemblies and introduction to a range of academic resources to help you succeed in your college career.

• First Year Experience

Honors College

The Alice Carson Tisdale Honors College is a prestigious college within Â鶹´«Ã½ University that offers an academically rigorous learning environment for high-achieving continuing students and first-year students who arrive at Â鶹´«Ã½ clearly prepared for success in their college-level work. The Honors College enables Â鶹´«Ã½ to confer special recognition upon this group of exceptional students who consistently stand out among their peers in terms of academic excellence, demonstrated leadership and service to the community.

• Learn about the Honors College

Â鶹´«Ã½ UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

Â鶹´«Ã½’s Center for Social Justice embodies a number of Â鶹´«Ã½’s guiding principles, most importantly Commitment to Valuing People. At Â鶹´«Ã½ we value people by providing a safe, wholesome and healthy environment that fosters mutual respect, diversity, and inclusion.

Â鶹´«Ã½’s Center for Social Justice

Panther STEPS (Students in Transition Engaged and Preparing for Success)

Required for first-year students, Â鶹´«Ã½ University’s groundbreaking Panther STEPS (Students in Transition Engaged and Preparing for Success) program helps you transition to college by providing the essential foundations of a liberal arts education. You will gain competency and confidence in the fundamental skills of scholarship and be introduced to the techniques of critical and analytical thinking. At the same time, Panther STEPS looks to foster a learning community where the requisite skills for engaged leaning are first identified, articulated, nurtured and developed.

• Find out more about STEPS

• Student Freedom Initiative
  

  Â鶹´«Ã½ University’s leadership in producing top STEM talent has drawn national attention with its inclusion in Student Freedom Initiative with 8 other HBCUs with academic strength in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Student Freedom Initiative programming aims to support students holistically as they tackle their academic challenges and provide career pathways as students prepare for their professional careers. 
  Find out how Student Freedom Initiative can support your STEM career goals.

• Non Academic Summer Programs

Summer Programs

Â鶹´«Ã½ operates one six-week summer session. The maximum academic load is 9 semester credit hours; however, exceptions are made for students enrolled in a four-hour course. Summer term grades are calculated on the same basis as those issued during regular sessions of the institution. In addition, the AP Summer Institute is an intensive five-day professional development session offered at Â鶹´«Ã½. Facilitated by College-Board endorsed instructors, the AP Summer Institute helps teachers enhance teaching skills and content knowledge.

academic advising

Academic Advising at Â鶹´«Ã½ University is offered to support your academic progress toward earning your college degree. Your academic advisor will help guide your educational decisions about your academic and career goals through frequent contact during your matriculation at Â鶹´«Ã½.