Learn Well for Student Success
School of Health Sciences and Wellness University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Welcome. This is Learn Well for Student Success out of Student Success Center in the School of Health Sciences and Wellness at UW Stevens Point. It's our mission to support the whole student, honoring individual experiences and getting each person access to tools and resources that will help them achieve their goals.
If you have ever struggled to get going on an assignment, have ever been challenged to set goals, felt overwhelmed, or as felt as though you were imposter in your own major, then this an invitation from us to you. We understand the inherent challenges of being a college student and we know that with supports and connection, you can make your college experience one that is full of opportunity and growth.
Listen in as we talk to campus and community experts and students about their strategies for success.
Episodes
13 episodes
The Importance of Developing the Whole Self for Grad School
Anyone who has experienced their first trip to the dining hall, dorm move, or first group project knows that college isn't just about academics, it's a time to grow emotionally, socially, and personally. We learn about who we are and how we wan...
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30:35
Prepping for Grad School Exams and Essays
When prepping for grad school, students devote a lot of time to things like applications, essays, and required exams and it can all feel like overwhelming busy work. It's really helpful to point out that although it does not always feel like it...
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22:04
Becoming a Grad Student
When researching and applying for graduate school and other professional programs, it can be easy to get lost in the details like required prerequisites, GPA's and test scores and this can lead students down the path of narrowly defining themse...
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40:28
Strategic Self-care to Avoid Compassion Fatigue
The Betty Ford Foundation defines compassion fatigue as "a state of exhaustion and dysfunction derived from the empathic responses to others' suffering, which diminishes professionals' ability to provide compassionate care." Students in the Sch...
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27:09
Building Self-Esteem
A lot of definitions universally available, frame self-esteem as a person's sense of their worth or value. With this simple understanding, it's not hard to see how someone attending college may come up against challenges in maintaining or build...
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40:40
How to Set Goals
Based on the nature of learning where students have to learn foundational critical thinking and study skills first, and that they sometimes have to take courses that don't completely fall into interest areas, it can be easy for them to sometime...
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17:37
How to Build Motivation and Momentum
It is not at all uncommon for students to walk into the Success Center in the School of Health Science and Wellness with the worry that they "are just not motivated." But, when asked a few follow-up questions they can easily recite all the reas...
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20:58
How to Finish the Semester Strong-Think Like a Farmer
The Student Success Center recently had an insightful metaphor come through our inbox and it was a challenge to us all to think like farmers and we think this concept is helpful for students, particularly at the end of the semester. Most of us ...
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49:02
How to Respond to Stressors and Access Regulation
Research on stress and trauma in recent decades, in the context of information technology, has opened may people's eyes to some of the built-in systems we have to protect ourselves. Most have a general understanding that these systems were real...
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38:52
How to Manage College Stressors and Access Resources
There seems to be growing awareness in recent years around things related to mental health, stress, and trauma where there is wider acceptance and more information than ever before. There is more understanding, flexibility, and support overall....
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26:16
How to Succeed in Your Science Classes
Students in the School of Health Sciences and Wellness often exposed to a breadth and depth of science courses and we often hear feedback that courses like Chem and Bio are a lot tougher at the collegiate level than the high school level. E...
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35:21
How to Balance Your Commitments and Obligations
Students in the School of Health Sciences and Wellness are strong and energetic students who are committed to their areas of study and to serving others, but they come to UW-SP with a number of challenges that previous generations did not exper...
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40:28
How to Leverage Library Resources to Get Started on a Project
There is not a day that goes by where we don't hear the phrase "information overload." We all have worlds of information at our fingertips and at the same time, it can be more of a struggle than ever to get started on a project because the shee...
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23:12