The Academic Center for Success thrives
on the Atlanta Metropolitan State College
campus with longer tutoring lab appointments for students, supplemental
support, math and English workshops, and a new director of the center who
professes a knack for fostering students until they succeed.
Even
though the Academic
Support Center has a new name, now the Academic Center for Success, the
mission is still the same, to assist students academically with their
challenges. The newly admitted director
of the center, Dr. Raishell Adams, who has self-proclaimed a propensity for
students, plans to uphold the recent adjustments of Atlanta Metropolitan but
help implement new changes to the progressive inner city college.
Photo courtesy of Dr. Raishell Adams GoFundMe.com
Dr. Raishell Adams
poses for social media
“I
love students,” says Dr. Adams, director for Academic Center for Success. “So
I’m always concerned and interested in students going from point zero to
success.”
Dr. Adams was born
and raised in Miami and is a “first
generation graduate” of college. She earned
a scholarship and also paid her way through school. Dr. Adams has over fifteen
years experience in higher
education working with college students since 1998. She taught First-year
Experience as a full time professor for six years. She also was the director of advising at Georgia Southern University.
Recently becoming
a doctorate recipient, Dr. Adams is overjoyed and relieved to be a part of
Atlanta Metro’s progression. She
believes Atlanta Metro is moving in the right direction, not only for the
Academic Center for Success but for the school in its entirety. Overall, Dr.
Adams has seemed to find her home among the youth and in the Atlanta Metro
academia family.
Eric Ballard says,
“Dr. Adams seems stern but fair, she gives great attention, and I agree with
her open door policy.”
Deborah
Willingham, two-year student says, “She seems like a nice person, She answers
questions and seems like a good person to talk to and whatever she can do for
you she will do it.”
“She’s really
sweet,” says A’nysa Thompson who just started in August. “She’s always
professional and I can tell she cares.”
Photo courtesy of Google Atlanta
Metropolitan State College
Atlanta Metropolitan entering signpost
On the horizon of
graduating and wanting to continue education at Atlanta Metro, one can truly
say they’ve seen continuous efforts to better the school’s academic center for
students.
Testimony has come
from professors saying this school lacks academic and technological advances
when comparing with other schools in the University
System of Georgia. Maybe because of the demographic, maybe not but it’s sad
to say that professor no longer works at Atlanta Metro. Dr. Adams and Jamie
Kellam English tutor of the Academic Center for Success agree that the
demographic has affected them.
“I love to see
people that look like me and I feel at home,” says Dr. Adams. “I love to see
young black men trying when it comes to work.”
Some of the new
changes in the Academic
Center for Success include supplemental
instruction, English and math workshops, English and math labs, Spanish
tutoring, and chemistry tutoring.
Supplemental
instruction is held twice a week in the Academic Center for Success and
involves receiving instruction in a particular subject by other students.
English and math workshops are both held twice a week in the center as well. In
addition to English and math tutoring, Spanish and chemistry have been added to
the tutoring roster. Appointments are now available for tutoring for extended
periods because some need more than twenty minutes of tutoring for math.
“It’s very
helpful,” says Jamie Kellam English tutor at the Academic Center for Success.
“All the changes that are happening to the center are exciting and it’s helpful
to know the students are getting the help they need.”
The staffs in the
center seem to be taking a liking to the changes as well; they’re ready and
willing to adhere to their duties as messengers of knowledge.
There is
definitely a new mentality sweeping the center onward to progression.
“I love my staff,”
says Dr. Adams. “They’re on it, they’re on top of things, very progressive.”
According to http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philip_Altbach/publication/225084084_Trends_in_Global_Higher_Education_Tracking_an_Academic_Revolution/links/551ac4020cf251c35b4f5d0d.pdf
the quest for higher education and its benefits has increased over a number of
years.
The second line in
Atlanta Metro’s Alma
Mater states seeking knowledge for your future. Some consider it imperative
and believe it’s is your inevitable right, a part of our human experience.
“That’s really
important to me,” says Dr. Adams. “Its important to me because everywhere I go
I want to be able to help the students.”
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