FNU Cares
Locations:
The FNU CARES is available at all campuses!
Hialeah Campus – JR503 and JR505
South Campus – Resource Room
Training Center – Resource Room
Mission:
FNU CARES provides an innovative collaboration between students and faculty designed to develop the foundational, and continuously evolving, skillsets required to achieve academic and career success.
Definitions:
Academic readiness: An innovative collaboration between students and faculty designed to develop the foundational, and continuously evolving, skill set required to achieve academic success.
Career preparedness: An ongoing process of preparing career-focused graduates capable of succeeding in a dynamic and ever-changing workforce.
Goals:
Goal 1: To contribute to a student’s life-long success by providing services to advance student academic readiness and career preparedness. (Aligned with Institutional Goal I)
Goal 2: To provide quality education by advancing the faculty’s proficiency in the art of teaching through targeted professional development activities addressing best practices, cutting-edge pedagogy, and faculty-student interactions. (Aligned with Institutional Goals I and II)
Services:
- Skills development
- Time management
- Test taking
- Note taking
- Mindfulness
- Stress Reduction
- Anxiety Management
- Focusing Your Mind
- Enhancing Creativity
- Enhancing Concentration
- Academic writing proficiency
- Evaluation and selection of research sources
- Library literacy / FNU resources
- Plagiarism
- APA style
- English Language Development
- Proficiency
- Fluency
- Conversational
- Career Focused
- Tutoring
- Peer tutoring
- Faculty tutoring
- Advising
- All students
- At risk students
- Professionalism
- Continuous Learning
- Adaptability
- Decision Making
- Emotional Intelligence
- Creativity
- Resilience
- Oral and Written Communication Skills
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Digital Competency
Student Success Resources:
Writing Studio – open to all students and faculty for writing support.
Library Services – open to all students for support with finding resources and scholarly articles.
Virtual Tutoring – Tutor.com is available 24/7 to all students for tutoring on a wide array of subjects.
Virtual Grammar Help – Grammarly.com is available 24/7 to all students.
Mindfulness Resources – free resources on mindfulness and stress reduction.
Note-Taking Tips – free tips on how to improve grades with better note-taking skills.
Faculty Resources:
Watermark – Faculty Platform
SimpleSyllabus – Syllabus Management Platform
BlackBoard – Learning Management System (LMS)
