The Link FSC Parent Newsletter 12/7/12

Campus Announcements:

Final Exams Arrive - Finals are here – Monday through Wednesday!

Winter Closing – Be sure your student is familiar with the closing procedures for all residence halls.

2013 – These Convo dates need to be on your student’s calendar for the spring:

· January 30

· February 13

· March 8 (tentative date)

Academic Reminders (always good to know):

· Click here if you need to know Fall Final Exam Schedules.

Tutor Tables for 2^nd semester – Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays 6-8 p.m., Student Solutions Center – Natural Sciences, Math, Social Sciences

Coming Up – Academic Improvement Sessions, 10:40 a.m., Rogers

January 16           Time Management

January 23           Learning Styles

February 6          Studying for Success

March 13             30 Tips in 30 Minutes

Schedule of Upcoming Events:

Friday, Dec. 7

· Last Day of Classes

· Chick Fil A Friday, 8:45 a.m., Bandshell

· RecFest, 7-9 p.m., Callahan Intramural Field

Saturday, Dec. 8

· Festival of Fine Arts presents Home for the Holidays: The Christmas Gala, Music Dept , 7:30 p.m., Branscomb

· Hanukkah begins at sundown

Sunday, Dec. 9

· Chapel, 11 a.m., Annie Pfeiffer Chapel

· Mass, 1 p.m., Annie Pfeiffer Chapel

· ACE presents Flapjack Fling, 9-11 p.m., Wynee’s Bistro, free pancakes

Monday – Wednesday

· Finals

Saturday, Dec. 15

· Graduation, 10:30 a.m., Branscomb

First-Year Advice:

Students are busy finishing papers and presentations, not to mention studying for finals. For our first-year students, they have completed one semester of college. Remember to celebrate the successes and add encouragement where needed. If your student didn’t do as well as they had anticipated, please know we are here to help. As always our office is happy to work with any student to discuss academic plans for the next term and beyond. I sincerely hope you enjoy your holiday season as your student returns home.

Second-Year Insight:

It’s finally here!  As the semester draws to a close, I hope that your student feels a great sense of accomplishment for successfully completing another semester at FSC.  Looking at four years of college from the first day of freshman year can be a little overwhelming.  However, as each semester passes, the end goal starts to come into focus.  We look forward to your students’ return next month as we have some exciting events planned for our second-year students.  In the meanwhile, I wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season!

From the FSC Counseling Center:

The Age of Reason.  Wouldn’t it be nice if our offspring reached a certain age (12, say) and automatically became reasonable, sensible, rational, logical, realistic, and levelheaded?  (I say if you have a thesaurus, use it.)  Of course, when we ask others to be reasonable, etc., we’re mostly asking them to agree with us.  Parents whose sons and daughters will soon come home from their first semester of college are about to get a reminder that others, even their dear children, their own flesh and blood, can see things from a perspective radically different from their own.  Students have a great deal of freedom at college.  Whatever they’ve done with their first semester of freedom, they’ll want to go on doing it when they return home.  They’ve been making their own decisions about friends, religious observances, nutritional choices, alcohol use, and sexual behavior.  They’ve been in charge of when to sleep and when to get up, whether to do class assignments promptly or procrastinate, whether to do laundry today or wear that shirt “just one more time.”  It’s a pretty safe bet that some of these decisions have been quite different from what you would have wished.  As you may realize, freedom is heady stuff and it’s difficult to give up freedoms once they’ve been gained.  If your student’s homecoming is more notable for conflict than camaraderie, it may help to realize that, even though you disagree on specifics, you and your child are aiming for the same thing: their independent adulthood.  Knowing you share a common goal may give you the patience and understanding you’ll need to help your child maintain this important new independence and still fit in with family plans and activities. 

Career Center:

This week we wish our students good luck with finals! All the best to our graduating seniors and graduate students completing their degrees! As a reminder, our services are available even after graduation! Feel free to contact us at 863-680-4390, through email at: careercenter@flsouthern.edu and don’t forget to use the resources on our webpage: www.flsouthern.edu/career

From the Nina B. Hollis Wellness Center:

What’s happening at the Wellness Center?

3^rd Annual Rec Fest Event

Friday, December 7, 7-9pm at the Intramural Field

This is the Wellness Center’s annual event to showcase some activities and programs we offer, and to thank the students who have participated in Wellness programming.  Everyone is invited to this FREE event!

What can they expect this year:

· Archery

· FREE food from Tijuana Flats

·  “Minute to Win It” competitions

· Laser Tag

· Group Exercise Demos

· Tennis

· Lawn games: Corn Hole, Ladder Golf, Spikeball, Can Jam

· Music

· Raffle Prizes and MORE!

Group Exercise Classes

Group exercise is a great way to get in a stress busting workout and get together with  friends.  Friday, December 7, will be the last day of Fall semester Group Exercise classes.   Check out this week’s schedule at:  http://www.flsouthern.edu/wellness/fitness/documents/SecondHalfGEScheduleFall12.pdf

**NEW!!  Due to popular demand we will be offering some great classes during finals week to help students deal with the stress of finals. 

FREE Personal Fitness Consulting

Through our Jump Start program, our fitness staff can help students reach their health and fitness goals.  We offer full fitness assessments, functional movement screenings, personalized exercise program design and instruction and nutrition education.  Contact Michele Cash at mcash@flsouthern.edu or 863-680-3894 for more information or to set up an appointment.  http://www.flsouthern.edu/wellness/fitness/jumpstart.htm

Intramurals

Congratulations to the Flag Football winners for this year:

· Men’s A – Sigma Chi

· Women’s A – The Alliance

· Men’s B – SAE

Congratulations to the 3 x 3 Basketball winners

· Coed – Lady Friends

· Women’s A – Team Nardin

· Men’s A – Lambda Chi Alpha

· Men’s B – Affirmative Action

Student Health 101-A Parent Perspective

http://readsh101.com/flsouthern-pp.html

We hope you’ll enjoy this interactive parent’s companion to our Student Health 101 newsletter.

Sports Shorts:

Sat. Dec. 8 at Palm Beach Atlantic West Palm Beach 2:00 pm W. Basketball

Fri. Dec. 14 Nova Fall Invite Fort Lauderdale All Day M&W Swim

Sat. Dec. 15 Nova Fall Invite Fort Lauderdale All Day M&W Swim

Sun. Dec. 16 Nova Fall Invite Fort Lauderdale All Day M&W Swim

Mon. Dec. 17 Nova Fall Invite Fort Lauderdale All Day M&W Swim

Mon. Dec. 17 Tuskegee Lakeland 7:30 pm M. Basketball

Tues. Dec. 18 N. Alabama (Terrace Hotel Classic) Lakeland 3:15 pm W. Basketball

Tues. Dec. 18 Johnson C. Smith Lakeland 7:30 pm M. Basketball
Wed. Dec. 19 UAH (Terrace Hotel Classic) Lakeland 3:15 pm W. Basketball

Sun. Dec. 30 Maryville Lakeland 1:00 pm W. Basketball

Sun. Dec. 30 Univ. of Manitoba (Scrimmage) Lakeland 5:00 pm M. Basketball

Sat. Jan. 5 Barry Lakeland 5:30 pm W. Basketball

Sat. Jan. 5 Barry Lakeland 7:30 pm M. Basketball

Sat. Jan. 5 Bridgeport University Lakeland 2:00 p.m. M&W Swim

Final Thoughts – This last newsletter of the semester serves as both a thank you and a New Year greeting. For those of you with students graduating next Saturday, thank you for partnering with us to prepare your child to go out and make a consequential impact on society. For those of you remaining with us for second semester, we look forward to working with you and your student in 2013, making it a year of academic success.

All the best – Shari

Shari Szabo

Associate Dean of Student Success

Florida Southern College

111 Lake Hollingsworth Drive

Lakeland, FL 33801-5698