I. Counseling

1. Meet with McNair Assistant Director every 4-6 week
2. Review career goals
3. Review graduate school goals.

II. Academic Advisement

1. Review transcript
2. Learning Styles Inventory
3. Advice on classes
4. Library skills
5. Computer skills (word processing, graphics, accessing data on the Internet)

1. Study skills
2. Statistics proficiency
3. SPSS
4. Technical writing
5. Research methods (appropriate to field of study)
6. Discipline-specific technology
7. Vocabulary Building Program

III. Summer Activities

1. Job or volunteer work appropriate to field of study
2. Independent study class/project
3. Internship for field of study
4. Shadowing for graduate career
5. Summer Reading Program

IV. Seminars

1. How to Choose a Graduate School
2. Research on the Internet
3. GRE Prep (for advanced sophomores only)

V. Cultural/Social Events

1. Honors Ceremony (attend)
2. CSS Undergraduate Research Poster Session (attend)
3. McNair (UWS) Poster Session (attend)
4. McNair (UofM) Poster Session (optional)
5. Graduate School Visits (group visits only)
6. Other off campus cultural events (as scheduled for all scholars)
7. Join a faculty member at lunch