The JMU Student Success Center is a place for:

• Challenge, support, and community:
  • helping students make successful transitions into, through, and out of the university through a broad range of programs, services, and resources
• Collaborative learning:
  • helping students become more efficient, effective, and engaged learners who come together with peers, faculty, and staff for educational activities
• Inquiry and discovery:
  • encouraging students to reflect, apply, and engage in "thinking, doing, wondering, figuring out things, predicting and recognizing" *
• Advising and consulting:
  • guiding students in making decisions and developing responsibility for their learning, behavior, physical and emotional health, finances, and career

*Banning, J. H., Clemons, S., McKelfresh, D., & Gibbs. R. W. (2010). Special places for students: Third place and restorative place. College Student Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4.