LET'S CONNECTSTUDENT SUCCESS CENTERUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON100 Morrissey BoulevardWheatley Hall, 4th Floor, Suite 151Boston, MA 02125-3393phone 617.287.4846email studentsuccess@umb.edu Instagram: @CSM_SSCTwitter: @SSC_CSM

www.umb.edu/ssc

C H E C K O U T W H A TF O R M E R S T U D E N T S H A V ET O S A Y A B O U T T H E I RF S C E X P E R I E N C E !

FRESHMANSUCCESS

COMMUNITIES

"Have fun, meet new people, comeout of your comfort zone, make thebest out of your college experience,lastly, do yourself a favor and join a

FSC community."

"Overall I am so happy to have been apart of this FSC because it helped me alot academically and personally. I amgoing to be able to apply so manylessons from this class to the rest of mytime at school and the rest of my life."

"I have learned so much aboutmyself and how I work with othersthese past months at UMB. I havetested and experience things manypeople don’t have the opportunityto get."

WHY JOIN?Be part of a Freshman SuccessCommunity (FSC) designed for enteringscience and mathematics majors! Makefriends, meet faculty, and have a bettersupported and more satisfying learningexperience at UMass Boston.

WHAT IS AN FSC?T H E Y A R E S M A L L C O H O R T S O FS C I E N C E A N D M A T H E M A T I C SS T U D E N T S W H O :

Help each other navigate through a largeuniversity setting Enroll in the same two or three corecourses grouped by academic discipline Receive priority enrollment in majorcourses Connect with university resources andfaculty for academic support and to findresearch and career opportunities Form study groups to achieve academicexcellence and finish their degrees in ashorter time period

For students planning to enroll in Fall 2020,

FSC spaces are limited and seats areavailable on a first-come, first-served basis.

Students will be invited to participate in aFSC based on their choice of major and

math/writing placement results.

Sign up for an early freshman orientationsession.

Take care of your New Student Assessment(Math Placement and Writing Assessment)at least one week before your orientationsession to be eligible for this excitingprogram.

C H E C K O U T O U R W E B S I T EF O R M O R E I N F O R M A T I O N !

HOW DOES ITWORK?

Students are placed into “communities”—small groups of students enrolled in two

or three of the same introductory sciencecourses. Each community is anchored by

a seminar course led by experiencedfaculty and staff members. Communitieshave access to supplemental instruction

to support their rigorous academicschedules. Students receive excellent

support services from the StudentSuccess Center staff and CSM faculty toease the transition to college and assist

as they move toward graduation.

HOW DO I GETSTARTED?