Student Success Workshops
The Spring 2025 Student Success Workshop Series is offered in collaboration with Counseling Services. Sessions facilitated by Counselor Katie Tokunaga are noted below.
*Register by clicking on the name of the session.
January 16
11 a.m. | Starting Your Semester Strong & Syllabus Mapping 101 | NG 203
January 23
11 a.m. | Time and Behavior Management Strategies for Success | NG 203
January 28
11:30 a.m. | Adjusting to College Change | Clyde A. Lynch 190 | Facilitated by Katie Tokunaga, Counseling Services
Being in college comes with change whether we like it or not. Small or large it’s scary and can hinder our academic and mental status. In this workshop we will discuss these fears and what to do when they arise.
January 30
11 a.m. | Active Reading + Learning Strategies | NG 203
February 4
11 a.m. | Concentration/Distractions & Effective Study Sessions | NG 203
February 6
Symposium on Inclusive Excellence
February 11
11 a.m. | Navigating Numbers: Your Roadmap to Quantitative Success | NG 203
Unlock your potential in math, statistics, and data-driven courses! This high-impact workshop will change how college students approach challenging quantitative subjects. Designed to help students overcome quantitative anxiety and build confidence, students will be given tools and tricks to master study techniques for comple analytical courses, learn problem-solving methods that translate across disciplines, and develop a winning mindset for approaching this material in college and beyond.
11:30 a.m. | Providing Ourselves with Structure | Clyde A. Lynch 190 | Facilitated by Katie Tokunaga, Counseling Services
We can plan to have a schedule for the year that we want to follow, but somehow life has it’s way to get in the way of being able to follow this schedule. In this workshop we will learn how to be
February 13
11 a.m. | Learning from Past Exams & Normalizing Failure | NG 203
February 20
11 a.m. | Mind over Circumstances: Building Resilient Motivation by Strengthening your Internal Locus of Control | NG 203
February 25
11:30 a.m. | Checking in with Ourselves | Clyde A. Lynch 190 | Facilitated by Katie Tokunaga, Counseling Services
Productive work doesn’t get done when you’re in a bad mood/mental state. In this workshop we will be going over how to take a step back from our situations, taking a breathe, and assess what the next steps need to be
February 27
11 a.m. | Mid-Semester Check-in: What’s Working and What’s Not? Be prepared to work smarter, not harder. | NG 203
March 11
11 a.m. | Turn Stress Into Success | NG 203
11:30 a.m. | Creating Healthy Boundaries | Clyde A. Lynch 190 | Facilitated by Katie Tokunaga, Counseling Services
Self-Success comes with needing to put up some boundaries along the way. Boundaries are meant to protect yourself not deflect everyone away from you. In the workshop we will go over what “healthy boundaries” are.
March 13
11 a.m. | Time and Behavior Management Strategies for Success | NG 203
March 20
11 a.m. | Pushing Past Procrastination | NG 203
March 25
11:30 a.m. | Dealing with Our Stress Storm | Clyde A. Lynch 190 | Facilitated by Katie Tokunaga, Counseling Services
Around mid-terms/testing time, it feels like there’s not enough time to study or complete all these assignments the professors assign all at once and we don’t know where to start. In this workshop we will focus on how to manage our stress.
April 1
Advising Day/Career Fair
April 3
11 a.m. | Pre-Advising Session | NG 203
April 8
11 a.m. | Pre-Advising Session | NG 203
11:30 a.m. | Perfectionism Monster | Clyde A. Lynch 190 | Facilitated by Katie Tokunaga, Counseling Services
For some of us our natural drive is to be perfect, have high expectations for ourselves, and push ourselves to work hard. However, this habit can turn into a ugly monster. In this workshop we will focus on how to manage this mindset.
April 10
11 a.m. | Staying Motivated: Finish Strong | NG 203
April 22
11:30 a.m. | Productive Self-care | Clyde A. Lynch 190 | Facilitated by Katie Tokunaga, Counseling Services
Finals week is right around the corner. Some of our ideas of self-care are”bed-rot time” or that self-care is unproductive/procrastinating. In this workshop we will talk about what self-care is and looks like.
April 24
11 a.m. | Finals Prep | NG 203