The mission of Disability Services for Students at Western Michigan University is to make education accessible. A student is a student, regardless of the issues, challenges or conditions faced. DSS advocates for the student to be provided with the appropriate tools to allow that person the opportunity to reach goals and potential. Those tools, academic accommodation or adjustment, facilitate learning while maintaining the integrity of course content and outcomes.

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Gateway courses are considered to be classes that are high-risk with high enrollment and are often foundational to major subject areas.

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The Developmental Math Program in the Department of Mathematics offers a tutor lab for program participants.

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The Mentoring for Success Program is a peer mentoring program designed to promote program participants' success at Western Michigan University through increased acceptance rates into participants' intended majors and increased college graduation rates. The program is geared toward achieving specific academic and developmental goals that are focused on participants' overall development. The program is optimized for and most beneficial to first-year and second-year students.

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The Western Michigan University ombuds will:

• Listen to you and discuss your problems and concerns, identifying and evaluating with you options to resolve problems.
• Provide information on resources within the University that may help you.
• Open avenues of communication, investigate complaints, and gather information.
• Serve as a neutral party to solve problems and resolve conflict. The ombuds does not take sides, but works to achieve fair outcomes.
• Identify problem areas facing faculty, staff, and students and recommend changes in University policies and procedures.

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The purpose of the tutor lab is to give you additional support and explanation in supplement to what is being taught in your Statistic course(s).

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STEP Student Success Centers serve all engineering students in need of academic help.

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Western Michigan University is devoted to your success and happiness as a Bronco. Whether you're in Kalamazoo, studying abroad or enrolled in one of our off-campus programs in Grand Rapids, WMU is here to assist you with any complaints, concerns or problems you may encounter as a student. The University tracks, monitors and evaluates the student complaint process in order to make institutional improvements where needed.

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WMU provides transfer students with an exceptional living and learning environment. We are dedicated to enhancing the growth of students to reach their full potential by providing rich learning opportunities through our programs, services and facilities.

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The Western Michigan University writing center is dedicated to creating and fostering a campus culture that values writing as an essential process by which individuals develop scholarly knowledge, critical thinking ability, communication skills and practical wisdom. The Writing Center helps writers at all levels and of all abilities determine strategies for effective communication and make academically responsible choices at any stage in the writing process and in any genre. Our hope is to empower each writer with the skills to better understand their own work and to more deeply engage with other writers' works.

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