Learning Skills
Support Program (LSSP)

Typically, a student must stay out a semester after being suspended. As an alternative, the Office of the Provost and The Learning Center designed a program that allows students to stay in school and improve their academic progress. The program is called the Learning Skills Support Program (LSSP).

If a student's academic advisor, department head, and dean agree on this option, a student will be allowed to enroll the following semester taking no more than 12-14 hours, rather than sitting out a semester. The Learning Skills Support Program is being offered to students who began enrollment at MSU in the fall of 2004 or after.

There are four main obligations a student must fulfill as a participant in the LSSP, and they are as follows:

  1. meet with the LSSP Coordinator in the Learning Center every two weeks,
  2. meet with his or her academic advisor during a specific period during the semester
  3. complete a specified section of LSK 1023: College Reading & Study Skills, and
  4. maintain a 2.0 or higher for the semester in which they are enrolled in the program.

In its fifth semester, the Learning Skills Support Program (LSSP) is running smoothly. Below you can see the success rate of the program for the three prior semesters:

Success Rate of LSSP

Semester
# students participated
# students successful*
Percentage
Fall 2005
60
36
60%
Spring 2006
59
44
75%
Fall 2006
120
88
73%
Spring 2007
100
73
73%
Fall 2007
162
134
83%
Spring 2008
86
68
79%

*Successful students are defined as those who met the above criteria for the LSSP and as a result were taken off of academic suspension.

If you have questions regarding the LSSP, please contact:
Jency Hill, LSSP Coordinator
or Anna L. Dill, Director
at
TLC · (662) 325-2957 · 267 Allen Hall