Submitted by: Jennifer Brewer, jbrewer1@uca.edu on 09/02/2025
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Academic Leadership (CETAL), in collaboration with Student Success Services, is excited to continue the Faculty for Successful Students campaign. This initiative equips faculty with simple, practical strategies to support students in developing habits that foster their academic success–particularly among first-year students.
This week’s Faculty for Successful Students focus is: Encourage Time Management. This theme aligns with the student campaign emphasis: PLAN Your Time.
Effective time management skills empower college students to balance academics, extracurricular activities, and personal commitments. This ability leads to reduced stress, increased productivity, and better academic performance, fostering a sense of control and success in their educational journey.
Ways you can Reinforce Success:
- Discuss how to plan for class assignments; provide tips on managing study time for this course; encourage use of a planner (Student Success offers free UCA Planners).
- Take time to demonstrate one or two time management strategies that could work in your course (e.g., Weekly Schedule, Daily Top Three, etc.).
- As often as possible, provide students with an estimated time needed to complete out-of-class assignments in the assignment instructions. Point out these estimated times to students and encourage them to use them when putting out-of-class assignments in their planners.
Bear Bites Invitation:
We also invite you to join us for Bear Bites: Meaningful Student Feedback on Thursday, September 18 at 12:15 p.m. in the Christian Cafeteria Executive Dining Room. This lunch program will highlight practical ways to provide feedback that supports student success while keeping your workload manageable.
👉 Register for this Bear Bites event!
Resources for You:
Together, we can help students strengthen the skills and behaviors that make them successful at UCA. Thank you for supporting this important initiative!
https://uca.edu/cetal/faculty-for-successful-students/
