UTHealth Student Success Program
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Office of Cultural and Institutional Diversity (OCID) Student Success Program helps UTHealth advisors or mentors identify their advisees’ specific risks and target interventions to reduce underrepresented minority student (URMS) and non-underrepresented minority student (non-URMS) attrition. Objectives are to:
- Early identify students at risk for Adverse Academic Status Events (AASEs).
- Diagnose specific risks to academic performance.
- Reduce risks, identified by the OCID-developed, diagnostic and prescriptive Personal Background and Preparation Survey (PBPS) via targeted interventions.
- Avert AASE and improve student success, retention and health workforce diversity.
Student Success Program Activities include:
- Individualized PBPS Student & Advisor Reports
- Faculty Guide for Student Resources & Services
- Targeted Intervention Workshops
- Faculty Training Sessions
- Monitored Student Referrals
- Documentation via Student Success Program Log
Targeted Intervention Workshops include:
- Study Skills
- Accent Coaching
- Presentation Skills
- Resume Preparation
- Interview Preparation
- Technical Writing
Student Success Program implementation has been followed by substantial and statistically significant reductions in URMS and non-URMS adverse academic status events and attrition for UTHealth and other healthcare professional and graduate education programs.
For additional information please contact:
Debra D. Samuels
Asst. to Dr. Ronald Johnson
Administrative Coordinator
Office of Cultural and Institutional Diversity
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
7000 Fannin, St., Suite 1690
Houston, TX 77030
713.500-3455 - office
debra.d.samuels@uth.tmc.edu
