Unleash Your Potential
Build confidence, improve your grades and learn how to study with help from the College Success Department. You'll find three different strategies for success, all catered to meet your specific needs.
College Success is a JCCC department that offers a diverse range of courses designed to help you tackle and succeed in college.
We offer FREE workshops and elective credit classes, all designed to build academic mastery, study skills, and strategies to help you succeed in your college career and beyond.
More than 50% of students feel academically unprepared for college.
Beyond adjusting to a new campus, academic system, and expectations, many students experience stress, confusion, and academic overwhelm during the transition to higher education.
College Success classes support that transition, helping you build the skills, confidence, and strategies you need to succeed in college.
College Success (COLL) classes help you:
- Strengthen core academic skills that support success in English, Math, and other college-level courses
- Build a strong foundation for college learning across all programs, pathways, and transfer goals
- Develop effective study, testing, and memory strategies to equip you for college-level learning
- Improve time management, organization, and planning skills
- Gain practical career skills that help with goal setting and job readiness
- Reduce stress and build confidence so you feel prepared for college
- Maintain or improve academic performance
- Stay on track to graduate or transfer successfully.
Master Skills You Need for College and Life
Our credit classes provide you with a thorough framework and guidance to build essential skills for learning and life. Using cognitive, academic, and planning strategies, these classes are designed to help you achieve your long-term academic potential and navigate your future successfully.
These classes are 1-3 credit hours and are accepted as electives in most programs of study.
1-credit-hour classes:
- COLL 010 Basic Math Review
- COLL 013 Algebra Preparation
- COLL 076 Study Skills
- COLL 086 Vocabulary Development
- COLL 090 Individualized Study
- COLL 101 Navigating College
- COLL 150 Job Search Skills
- COLL 172 College Strategies for Student Athletes
- COLL 174 Learning Strategies for Math
- COLL 175 Reading Strategies Across the Disciplines
- COLL 176 College Study Strategies
- COLL 178 Memory Strategies
- COLL 186 Exam Strategies
- COLL 235 Career Experiences, (1-2 Hour)
- COLL 292 Special Topics: (1-3 Hour)
3-credit-hour classes:
- COLL 103 Exploring Academic and Personal Success
- COLL 110 Introduction to Personal Leadership
- COLL 135 Career and Life Planning
- COLL 140 Designing Your Life
- COLL 190 Academic Reading Strategies
- COLL 200 College Success Strategies
- COLL 292 Special Topics: (1-3 Hour)
Transition Into Post-Secondary (TIPS)
College-bound high school seniors with an IEP or 504 plan can streamline their college experience by taking a Transition into Post-Secondary (TIPS) course.
Taken during your senior year of high school, this credit class provides the opportunity to get a headstart on college skills and experiences, identify strengths and goals early, and prepare you for success in college.
Tackle Your Studies With Confidence
All credit students are eligible for free workshops to improve reading and math.
Learn evidence-based strategies that you can apply to your current classes to better understand your reading and math assignments.
You are invited to attend as many Reading and Math Workshops as you need. Contact pmancini@jccc.edu for more information.
JCCC’s first-year support team of success coaches, counselors, and career coaches smooth the move to college.