BALANCE: Being an Active Learner Among New Collegiate Experiences

BALANCE is an acronym for Being an Active Learner Among New Collegiate Experiences. This weekly series of workshops provides new students with strategies to successfully balance the multitude of components of university life. Workshop topics include, but are not limited to: developing research and writing skills, successfully interacting with professors, managing time and stress, effectively taking notes and tests, strategies for retention of textbook material, budgeting and wise use of credit, techniques for choosing a major, and developing healthy academic, personal, interpersonal, and social lifestyles. The university’s BALANCE program has been nationally recognized for the past three years as a “Best College Character Program” for first-year students by the Journal of College and Character.