How might we communicate about campus resources for African american & Latinx students in a way that raises AWARENESS and reduces the stigma of getting help?

Freshmen and Transfer Students already have a high bar to achieve in their first year at ODU, and it is challenging if you do not know what resources are available to you and where resources are located. Knowing that many first-generation students are Latinx and African American Students, we want to make this transition easier for these students by providing built-in help to these students before they have to ask for it.

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'Providing A Resource Does Not Mean The Students Know It Exists or Know How To Use It'

stigma of asking for help

Providing resources to students so they can attain success inside and outside the classroom should be a priority for O.D.U., and we believe that showing them where to find and how to use these resources should also be a priority. In African and Latin X culture needing help has been seen as a sign of weakness for many, so we want to change this. We want to have students think of asking for help as a rewarding experience so this program will help to make students not fear needing and using help.

Modern furniture manufactures sell their products with clear instructions and the tools to assemble them, the Webb Team believes that the road to success becomes easier if students know their resources and how to used them that is why O.D.U. should become a leader in first year success and have an introduction class on the tools available and how to use them expanded to a first year or semester based program that will incorporate the classes that students are in to show how each resource applies to their time on ODU's campus

The Webb Team believes that the every new student coming into O.D.U. be it a Freshman or a Transfer Student can benefit from the extra time to transition and learn to have a more active part in their learning

The combined Webb Team has experience this problem as well as some of the people surveyed by our team we know the feeling of needing a paper checked by the writing center and not knowing were to find the center and being to scared to ask. We do not want students to experience this so our program will help to make this first leap for students easier.

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