Plan Your Success
Learn how to set goals, determine priorities, and make a plan that will help you to maintain a healthy, balanced lifestyle.
Academic Success Workshops
Build Skills for Success
The Learning Centers offer academic and self-management skills workshops to help you be successful in college, your career, and life. Our workshops are open to all Rutgers students, including individuals, student groups, university organizations, and courses.
Academic Success Series
Our most popular workshop topics are offered through the Academic Success Series, which is facilitated each semester and addresses wide a range of topics.
Study Smarter, Not Harder
Get more out of your study sessions by ensuring they are purposeful, planned, active and reflective. Make connections and understand material by incorporating multiple strategies for organizing information like creating visual aids and study guides.
Read to Succeed
Develop effective reading strategies to help you learn more from your textbooks and assigned readings.
Master Your Mind: Metacognition
Metacognition is the understanding of your own academic strengths and weaknesses. Learn metacognitive strategies and take control of your learning.
Focus, Concentrate, and Stay Motivated
Learn techniques to improve focus, concentration, motivation, and memory.
Back On Track
Learn strategies to get organized, set priorities, and make a plan to catch up and get back on track.
Take Tests at Your Best
Conquer test anxiety and learn strategies for preparing for and taking exams.
Less Stress, More Success
Develop strategies for managing academic and non-academic needs to promote physical and emotional well-being.
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | Online via Zoom
Monday, November 25, 2024, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | Livingston Learning Center Tillett 111L Conference Room
Monday, December 02, 2024, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | Livingston Learning Center Tillett 111L Conference Room
Wednesday, December 04, 2024, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. | Online via Zoom
Host a Workshop
Explore all of our workshop topics, or let us plan one for your student group or course.
- Alleviating Academic Anxiety
- CORE Strength and Conditioning for Technical Courses
- Elevate Your Learning Through Growth Mindset
- Finals Prep
- GRE Prep
- Less Stress, More Success
- Metacognition
- MCAT Prep
- Note Taking
- Breaking the Box: Critical Thinking for College and Beyond
- Communication Skills
- How to Succeed in a Lecture Course
- How to Study for the Sciences
- Keep Your Eye on the Syllabi!
- Presentation Skills
- Professionalism
- Reading Strategies
- RU A Successful Student?
- Take Tests at Your Best
- Time Management
