Upcoming Events
High School Speaker Series
Fall Series: Academic Majors and Career Pathways
The High School Speaker Series is a program that provides high school students (grades 9-12) with exposure to college life. The focus of the fall speaker series is Academic Majors and Career Pathways which provides students with an early introduction to college academics and career pathways.
Our speakers consist of SIUE faculty and staff who provide academic advice they share with current and prospective students. Additionally, SIUE students and alumni share their personal journeys of how they navigated college. High school students receive tips on what they can do now while still in high school to help them prepare for college as well as insight on what to do while in college to prepare them for life after graduation.
Spring Series: College, More Than Academics: Get Involved, Gain Practical Skills, and Network!
The High School Speaker Series is a program that provides high school students with an early glimpse of college life. The focus of the spring Speaker Series is student engagement, College, More Than Academics: Get Involved, Gain Practical Skills, and Network! Students learn about the social, academic, and professional benefits they can receive as a result of getting involved outside of the classroom.
Our speakers consist of SIUE student leaders who share their personal experiences on how they navigated college. High school students receive tips on what they can do now while still in high school to help them prepare for college, pitfalls to avoid, and reflections on what they wish they would have known during their early years in college.
Study Skills-Elective Course for College Credit
The Study Skills course is designed for students who would benefit from strengthening their study skills and learning effective strategies to increase performance and success in high school and college. Students will learn how to use their learning styles to tailor their approach to learning, process information more efficiently, manage time effectively, set goals, increase concentration, reduce stress and procrastination, read class textbooks and improve comprehension, take notes from textbooks and lectures, improve listening skills, use a variety of notetaking systems to prepare for tests, and perform well on various tests by exposure to a variety of question formats. Students will receive elective college credit for successful completion of this course.
Student-2-Student (S2S) Engagement Conference
The Student-2-Student (S2S) Engagement Conference is a student-led program for high school students. Created by Governors State University’s (GSU) College Pathways Program, the SIUE CORE TEAM collaborated to co-sponsor this annual event in 2021. Student leaders from GSU and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville planned, facilitated, and presented programming to high school students throughout Illinois. S2S's mission is to engage, inspire and expose high school students to the college environment.
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