Programs

College Assistance Migrant Program

The purpose of the Western Michigan University College Assistance Migrant Program is to provide academic and financial support to assist migrant and seasonal farmworkers or their children in successfully completing their first undergraduate year at the University and continuing in their post-secondary education. The program provides students with academic assistance, tutoring, career counseling, financial assistance, leadership development, and personal and group counseling. Program participants also receive follow-up services after successful completion of their first year.

The College Assistance Migrant Program at WMU is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Migrant Education.

For more information, visit the College Assistance Migrant Program.

Martin Luther King Jr. Student Scholars Academy

The Martin Luther King Jr. Student Scholars Academy is a four-tier comprehensive program designed to offer academic, social and professional development services that assist program participants from their first year at Western Michigan University through graduation. Each tier is designed to address particular developmental milestones associated with that phase of a student's matriculation.

For more information, visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Scholars Academy.

Mentoring for Success Program

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. Academic mentors provide undergraduate students in the target population academic support through one-on-one and small-group mentoring sessions, during which they may tutor, facilitate discussions, help students locate resources, and promote academic and life skills development.

The  program strives to ensure that all program participants are given the full opportunity to discover and develop their talents, interests, and unique potential, and to provide a learning-centered and student-centered environment that presents the context for intellectual, cultural, professional, and personal growth during the college experience. Program participants will learn to become independent, confident learners and develop good study habits and time management skills that will enhance their education and college experience, as well as to enable them to achieve a post-secondary degree.

Funding for this program is provided by the State of Michigan King-Chávez-Parks Initiative's Select Support Student Services grant and WMU's Multicultural Affairs for Students and Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

For more information, visit the Mentoring for Success Program.