Guide to Campus Resources

While no one can force you to take advantage of the services offered here at UMM for you, the Academic Alert committee, and your professors hope you will. This website is designed to give you a thumbnail sketch of each office, with contact information so you can make informed decisions about what services would be most helpful to you.

Some of the offices below have websites that will provide you with up-to-date information about services. You can access them by clicking “Student One Stop” on the UMM Home Page, then selecting which pages you want to view.

Academic Support Services

Academic Assistance Center
Location: Room 362 Briggs Library
Phone: 589-6178
Staff: Kathryn Gonier Klopfleisch (Program Coordinator), Ferolyn Angell (Tutor Coordinator)

Services offered:

• Tutoing: Tutors are available free of charge for almost any subject. About half the freshman class signs up for tutors at some point during their first year.
  
• Study Table: Study skills tutors and Kathryn Gonier Klopfleisch will be available from 2-9 every Monday night during the academic year to help drop-in students with everything from organizing papers to preparing for finals.
  
• One-on-one Academic Counseling: Ferolyn or Kathryn can help you analyze why your class or classes are not going well and they can help you devise strategies to improve.
  
• Learning to Learn: a 2 credit course that teaches academic strategies. If you are earning a GPA of 2.0 or below, you may want to consider taking this class.
  
• Math Room: Drop-in help for any math class in room 360 in Briggs Library. The math room is open Monday through Thursday from 7-10pm.
  
• English Language Support: AAC can help English as a Second Language Students overcome language barriers. Contact Ferolyn Angell (-6178 or angfa).

Students with questions about any of these services should call or stop in for more information. All services are free.

The Advising Office
Location: Community Services Building 223
Phone: 6010
Website: http://www.morris.umn.edu/academic/advising/main.htm
Staff: Brenda Boever, Ginger Nohl

The Advising Office is a great source of information. There, you can find out how to change your major, change advisors, or plan your class schedule. You can also learn what you need to do to stay in good academic standing and what happens if you are suspended or put on probation. They also have a helpful website.

The Registrar’s Office

To learn the deadlines for dropping, withdrawing from or adding classes, check out the Registrar’s Office Website:
http://www.morris.umn.edu/services/registrar/canceladd.html

The Registrar office website can be helpful in other ways as well. If you want to read about class excuse policies, or if you are considering changing your major and you’d like to know how the classes you’ve already taken fit into that major, go to
If you click on “Graduation” on the left hand navigation bar, and go to number 8 on the checklist, you will have an opportunity to plug in different grades to determine how your GPA will be affected.

Multi-Ethnic Student Program

Location: 110 Multi-Ethnic Resource Center
Phone: 6095
Website: http://www.morris.umn.edu/services/msp
Contact person for academic alert: Fang Du, the Educational Coordinator
Other staff members: Aida Martinez, Director
Mike Miller, Coordinator of Cultural Programs
Bonnie Tipcke, Executive Administrative Specialist

MSP provides the following services for U.S. students of color:

• Academically advise first year students of color
  
• Assists in the adjustment process of students of color to the University through the summer component of the Gateway Program and with orientation sessions for incoming students of color
  
• Monitor the academic progress of all students of color, intervening and making referrals when needed
  
• Design workshops to encourage exceptional students of color to apply for national scholarships
  
• Collaborate with the Center for International Programs to encourage students of color to study abroad
  
• Plan and coordinate the Multi-Ethnic Mentorship Program, a program where second year students are 'matched' with a faculty member to do a project/research in their area of interest
  
• Design and implement cultural and educational activities such as World Touch Cultural Heritage Week
  
• Serve as a resource to the campus on student of color issues
  

Writing Room

Student Support Services

Sometimes students struggle in their classes because they aren’t quite sure what they want to do with their lives, and they spend time asking the question, “Why am I taking this class? How will it help me in my future?” Other students find themselves dealing with emotional or physical stress that wreaks havoc on their academic success. Fortunately, a variety of Student Support Services at UMM can help students reduce stress, explore career options, cope with a disability or work through the changes brought about by a sudden, life-changing event.

Career Center

Location: 201 Behmler Hall
Phone: 589-6065
Website: http://www.morris.umn.edu/services/career/
Staff: Gary Donovan (Director), Amy Blackwelder and Irene Maloney

The career center helps students find jobs, internships and graduate school information. The office also provides career advising and resume help for all students, first-year or senior.

Disability Services

Staff: Colleen Frey (Program Coordinator), Kathryn Gonier Klopfleisch, (Academic Assistance Program Coordinator)

The Disability Services Office arranges accommodations for students with documented physical, learning or mental disabilities. Accommodations, such as extended time on exams, or texts in alternate formats, are designed to make students more successful in the classroom.

Student Counseling

Staff: Henry Fulda (Director), Gail Hockert, Lori Koshork and Jane Kill.

Student Counseling helps students cope with mental illnesses, recover from alcohol or drug abuse, and manage any type of personal crises or stress.

Student Counseling also deals with emergencies, such as suicide threats and sexual assault. After hours, students in need of emergency services can call campus police at 589-1155, or 911.

Someplace Safe

Location: 10 East 6th Street (in Theater Arcade Building)
Phone: 589-3208 (after hours 800-974-3359)
Staff: Christine Peacock

Someplace Safe helps survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence by explaining options, providing support, identifying appropriate resources and acting as a legal advocate. Friends and family members of survivors may also receive counseling and assistance. Students, faculty or staff may meet with Christine on campus as well as off.

Sexual Orientation Issues

Queer Issues Subcommittee at queercmt@cda.mrs.umn.edu
Phone: 6060
Staff: Lori Koshork

The mission of the Queer Issues Subcommittee is to work toward making UMM and its surrounding community safe places for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersexed, and allied students, faculty and staff through programs and activism aimed at increasing visibility, awareness, and understanding of GLBTQQIA issues.

The QIS is a subcommittee of the Student Services Committee comprised of student, staff and faculty representatives who identify with or support the GLBTIQQA community. The group has recently designed an educational program called the Ally Project. The three-tiered program is meant to raise awareness and understanding of queer issues. The three successive sessions ofered build from general sensitivity training, to becoming an effective ally and establishing "Safe Zones" on campus, and to learning how to become a trainer for the program. The subcommittee is also involved with student housing concerns for transgender students and community relations.

Violence Prevention Coordinator

Bridget acts as an advocate for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking. Services are also available for the family and friends of survivors. She provides resources and referrals, helps student work with the student behavior committee and provides information for students, faculty and staff regarding options and accurate information regarding violence and sexual violence. She can meet with students in her office or elsewhere.