Student Success Center Blog

A major goal of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library is to serve our student populations and their learning as best as possible. To assist us in this endeavor, we need to hear from you! We want to know what tools you use for research and in what kinds of place you want to conduct your research.

If you are a student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, please take a few moments to fill out one of these surveys. Your responses will help us support your research and learning in a more efficient and effective way.

Thank you very much.

Undergraduate Student Survey Please take 15 minutes to fill out this anonymous survey

Graduate Student Survey Please take 15 minutes to fill out this anonymous survey. This survey is for UHM graduate students-both on campus and distance students. We want to provide you with the best possible programs and services. Thanks in advance and have a great semester.

Learnability is about improving your capacity to do well academically. The Student Success Center offers a series of sessions to do this. The entire series can be taken in sequence or you can take which one you want and skip the rest! it’s up to you! Here are the Learnability topics:

ORGANIZING STUDY TIME: How to plan for focus and attention for a project or series of assignments or for the workload of an entire course. It’s a busy world–let’s get organized!

GETTING MORE OUT OF READING: How to improve your skills for gaining and retaining the most out of text. We all have lots to read. How to get it all done more effectively.

NOTE-TAKING/ORGANIZING: Everybody’s talking at us! How can we hear it all better and make sure we have captured the most important blather? Let’s learn how. In addition, let’s learn how to organize and outline so that our notes and our understanding of what’s going on in a text or lecture is coherent.

FINDING SOURCES: the University spends six million dollars a year making information available to you for your papers, presentations, and assignments. There’s more to information finding than Google(not that there’s anything wrong with Google!). Learn how to pick the right databases and find the right sources.

WRITING THE PAPER: how do you put together a great argument, write a terrific thesis, choose an amazing topic, integrate information from sources into an effective, appealing, and coherent paper? This session will tell you how…and HOW!

WILD CARD LEARNABILITY SESSION! What do YOU need to know to improve your academic success? Let us know and we’ll deliver!

Learnability Sessions are ON DEMAND!!! Yup! When do you need it? Let us know and we’ll schedule what works for you! Send an email to: gohere@hawaii.edu or call: 956.8308.

This feature of the Student Success Center is designed to do a lot of different things. If you’ve ever stayed in any hotel in a major city or certainly any of Hawaii’s terrific hotels, you’ve seen a concierge desk. Ever asked them anything? Well, anything is the right word, because that’s what they answer. The job of the concierge is to ensure that the hotel guest gets the services that they want: restaurant recommendations, directions to a museum, renting a motor scooter, getting your pants altered, you name it.

Over and over we hear students complain about how difficult it is to find out what resources are available on campus and how to get to them. All kinds of resources. Tutoring, advisors, renting a kite (don’t actually know if you can do that), restaurants, finding a graphics designer, where do I drop classes, how do I get a counselor, can I get into the dorms as a junior, it goes on and on. INFORMATION CONCIERGE. That’s where you come to find the answers. That’s the one place you need to know in order to know about everything else. Student Success Center’s Information Concierge. You can email us at this address: gohere@hawaii.edu. Or give us a call: 956.8308.

So, we at the Student Success Center are curious. What kinds of information resources do you need? You know, some people don’t like the word “concierge” because they think it is too “commercial” a concept and doesn’t reflect the academic nature of the University. Others think it means a more accountable and responsive service at the University.

Tell us what you think.