Advising, Counseling, Tutoring, Information to enhance
the Villanova Experience

The Center for Multicultural Affairs offers comprehensive integrated services to all in-coming students. Our goal is to ease your transition into the Villanova University community. In addition to academic tutoring, counseling and course advising, we can also help you select and get involved with a wide array of engaging extra curricular activities. A.C.T.I.V.E. stands for Advising, Counseling, Tutoring, Information to enhance the Villanova Experience. The A.C.T.I.V.E. Retention Program is in place to aid and ease the transition of first and second year students into the Villanova Community.

• First year students are inundated with opportunities and issues on and off campus, and when faced alone, many students begin to feel overwhelmed and under prepared, which in turn affects their personal and academic life.
• Second year students face an even greater problem. It is usually assumed that second year students have adapted to the University. Unfortunately, the bounty of resources once reserved for them is now redirected to the next wave of first year students.

Adding to both first and second year students list of concerns sometimes involve cultural differences, social, political, spiritual, and economic hardships. The Center for Multicultural Affairs combats these concerns through the services they offer.

Services include but are not limited to:

While all of our programs are open to all students, we actively seek students for our programs who identify with a “cultural” population or NOS (Not otherwise stated). Students accepted into the program gain access to all of the services mentioned above. The only requirement is that the student must attend one (1) professional/personal development workshop and one (1) social outing a semester.

Phase One Freshman Retention

• Help Students Develop an Academic Plan
  o Review grades
  o Teacher feedback
• Provide Tutoring
• Counseling
  o Academic
  o Personal
  o Financial
• Professional and Personal Development Programming

Phase Two Sophomore Engagement

• Help Students Develop Strategies for Success
• Major Selection
• Provide Tutoring
• Leadership Development
• Managing Social Relations
  o Communication Skill Development
• Developing ‘What’s Next’ Plans
  o Thinking about Graduate School
  o Internships
  o Career Development
   

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