The Northwest Student Development Centers offer a variety of services to students, prospective students, college personnel, and graduates. Professional counselors are available for academic and career-technical advising, personal counseling, testing, and career development. The Student Development Center on the Senatobia campus is located upstairs in McLendon Center. Counseling services are also available at the Northwest campuses in Oxford and Southaven.
The goal of the Student Development Center is to help students benefit from the personal, social, career and educational opportunities available to them. These services include:
- Career and academic counseling - helping students identify their interests, abilities, values, and needs in order to plan their academic and career goals. Vocational, aptitude and academic testing are used in this service.
- Individual and group counseling - assisting students to assess and understand their problems, define goals, and modify their behaviors, perceptions, beliefs, and emotions to enable them to lead more satisfying lives and to receive maximum benefit from their educational experiences.
- Outreach and consultation - providing students, faculty, and the community with presentations, workshops, and consultation on matters that pertain to their personal, academic, and occupational well-being.
- Crisis intervention - providing professional consultation and/or immediate response for individuals experiencing intense personal crisis.
- Retention - An Early Alert System has been developed as part of the College's retention effort and initiates contacts between students and campus personnel who can provide appropriate intervention to meet students' needs.
- Testing - administering various tests to students to assist in entering college and in making academic and career choices. Career interests and exploration, academic aptitude, and achievement tests are available on request.
- Confidentiality - assuring that interview sessions conducted by counselors are kept confidential. Information of a confidential nature is released only upon a client's written request, in circumstances which would result in a clear danger to the client or others, or as may be required by law.
To contact a counselor at one of these locations, click the e-mail links below:
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