Academic Excellence and Student Performance

The Mission of the Office of Academic Excellence & Student Performance (AESP) is to oversee, coordinate and manage the University-wide initiative to impact student retention, persistence and graduation rates at Fisk University. The Office of Academic Excellence & Student Performance serves students experiencing academic difficulty (on warning or probationary status), students in need of tutorial or other academic support services who are referred by faculty or who self-refer, students who have not declared their majors, and conditionally admitted (Emerging Scholars) freshman students. AESP also serves differently-abled students and works in conjunction with the University Counseling Center to ensure that the University is in ADA compliance and that all students have been accommodated.

Students served by AESP are afforded academic advisement; academic skills workshops; tutoring; personal and career counseling; supplemental instruction in reading, writing and mathematics; structured study groups, and other interventions as indicated. Students’ academic performance is tracked through an early warning system, online assessment system and ongoing interactions between assigned academic advisors, faculty, living learning centers coordinators, graduate tutors, and other University staff.

Students who are conditionally admitted, on academic probation, and/or undeclared majors have specific requirements addressed by AESP. They include participation in orientation workshops designated academic skills workshops, a minimum of four conferences per semester with the student’s academic advisor, attending all tutorial sessions and supplemental instruction in the Writing Center and/or Mathematics Laboratory and other designated interventions.