• Student Success Center Staff

    Student Success Center

  • The Student Success Center (formerly the Center for Academic & Professional Performance/CAPP) provides students with personal, academic and career support and is devoted to delivering complete, wrap-around services to foster students’ resilience, confidence, academic success and social skills. The Student Success Center works to ensure a successful college experience, positive personal development and post-graduation preparedness. All services are free for students. 

     

  •  Registration Groups for Spring 2026

    Start Time/DateEligible Students (Registration Groups)
                7:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 12th All students who have completed 54 credits or more prior to the start for this term and all James Millikin Honors Scholars and Long-Vanderburg Scholars. 
           7:00 a.m. Thursday, November 13th All students who have completed 24 to 53 credits prior to the start of this term. 
     7:00 a.m. Friday, November 14th All students with 0 to 23 credits completed prior to the start of this term. 

    The Registrar's Office and the Student Success Center would like to remind you Scheduling Day and Early Registration is fast approaching.

    Advising day is Nov 11th. Students should schedule a meeting with their academic advisor before this date to pick out classes for next spring!

    • Students can find their advisor by: 
    • Logging into MUonline 
    • View the “Student" tab
    • Go to “Student Profile"
    • At the bottom of “Student Information” marked as advisors 
    • Your academic advisor is marked as “Primary/Major Advisor”

    Nuts and Bolts is a program hosted by the Registrar’s Office and Student Success Center. This program is on November 4th and 6th from 4:30pm to 6:30pm in the UC. 

    What days each class registers: 

    • First year: 11/14
    • Sophomores: 11/13
    • Juniors: 11/12
    • Seniors: 11/12
    • Honors: 11/12

    Benefits of registering early: 

    • Get the classes you want and need!
    • Solidify your plans for spring semester!
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    Academic Accommodations

    Find out about the academic accommodations available at Millikin.

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    Academic Support Services

    The Student Success Center provides academic support to all students through a host of programs and advising services.

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    Career Support Services

    The Student Success Center assists with connecting students and alumni to a diverse range of career opportunities.

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    Faculty & Staff Resources

    The Student Success Center offers a variety of tools to assists faculty and staff with helping students.

  • Introduction

    The Student Success Center is devoted to delivering complete wrap-around services to help students build resilience, confidence and skills to ensure college persistence and to prepare them for employment in a rapidly changing world. Our approach is informed by a strengths-based advising model, to include intrusive mentoring and the addition of trauma-informed practices. Supporting student development and success through these additional lenses, which are grounded in positive psychology, will greatly enhance our impact. These services consider the whole student and ensure a robust continuum of care that enables us to reach students where they are. These services are especially critical for our at-risk student population, non-traditional students and commuter students who are most vulnerable to attrition. However, these techniques also remain relevant to the high-performing student as they allow for a personalized approach for each individual. The inclusion of enhanced and holistic student employment services in the Student Success Center also provides a much needed training ground for career competencies.

    Vision

    To empower students to actively shape their lives and hone their academic identity through intentional coaching, mentoring, and planning for life after graduation. 

    Mission

    The Student Success Center provides students with personal, academic and career support to persist at the institution, ultimately equipping them with the skills to become democratic citizens, achieve professional success, and lead lives of personal meaning and value by: 

    • Implementing a strength-based advising approach to support academic identity and career development that prepares, supports, and educates students to persist to graduation and succeed in an ever-evolving workplace.
    • Encouraging performance learning through transformative experiences that connect academics to professional success.
    • Cultivating a strong sense of self-advocacy and personal brand identity that empowers students throughout their journey in becoming the best versions of themselves.
    • Utilizing the framework of trauma-informed practices to provide a personalized coaching experience that addresses all barriers to retention, persistence, and success.
    • Collecting and utilizing relevant and timely data to support best practices for academic and career- related initiatives.