The Research On The Undergraduate Academic Support In The United State

The undergraduate Academic Support in the United States has originated fromlearning assistance when American University was first established in the17thcentury. With the popularization of higher education in the United States, AcademicSupport, paid attentions to fix the problem of retention, gradually evolved into makinga student success and safeguard the quality of higher education.Academic Support is a series of learning assistance activities which are held byhigher institutions in order to promote the cognitive development of the students, helpthem achieve academic success, develop the skills, techniques, confidentcharacteristics, as well as the independent learning ability for the students with theinstructing by teachers, peer students and special academic staff. The undergraduateAcademic Support that is categorized to academic coaching, academic service, andadvising utilization of academic resource according to the nature, carries out variousways, for example: one-on-one tutoring, group tutoring, first year seminar,supplemental instruction and so on. The undergraduate academic support activities orservices in the United States are usually concentrated in a central administrativedepartment, which is affiliated to the academic affairs or the student affair department,and set up corresponding administrative staff, tutors and coordinators. The universitiesdevelop various review tools and collect effective feedback information by itself inorder to better improve the content and implementation of Academic Support. Withthe long-term of development, the undergraduate academic support in the UnitedStates has gradually formed its own unique characteristics: First, the design of thegoal and content emphasizes students’ personalized; Second, the content and theimplementation of methods were rich and diverse; Third, specialized workforce;Fourth, institutional settings specification, function highly differentiated.Therefore, according to the current situation and problems of the undergraduateacademic support in our country university, the improvement and establishment onacademic support should focus on the following four aspects: Firstly, to broaden thecontent of academic support, and meet the personalized need of the students; Secondly, to establish rich and diverse ways for the implement of academic support, andimprove the coverage and popularity for it; Thirdly, to perfect the organizationalstructure of academic support system in order to provide professional services for thestudents; Finally, to integrate the campus service system, and promote the cooperationbetween the academic affairs and student affairs.