Once More, Into the Breach....

All of the students are back from Thanksgiving break. Two more weeks to go!

It's Been Awhile....

...since my last post. We have had a terrific start to the semester. We are gearing up for mid-terms, and want to take this time to remind all parents and students that Family Weekend is coming up October 16th. We will host a tailgate with great catered barbecue, and hope to see all of our students and parents there. If you plan on attending, and have not done so already, please RSVP your attendance to us.

Thank you to the parents and families who have graciously sponsored this year's tailgate event. Your support makes it happen!

Upcoming events: Grady will be representing the program at an LD college fair at Waubonsie Valley School in Naperville, Illinois, on October 4th. Achieve will also be represented in St. Charles, Illinois on October 13th, and we will be at the Directions college fair and the Choices college fair on October 25th and 26th.

Gearing Up...

This week, we are meeting, planning, making last minute adjustments, in preparation of our new and returning students. We will see many of our new students on the early move-in date of August 18th. Our orientation will begin at 2 pm at Davis Auditorium in the Wham Building (across the street from Achieve). See you soon!

Sally Retires, but Achieve Goes On...

We had a wonderful retirement party for Sally DeDecker. However, time marches on, and we are now preparing for a great new year. We will be posting many items in the next few days. We look forward to all of our new and returning students!

Sally is RETIRING!

This summer, on July 24th, Achieve will wishing Sally well on her retirement! Many of you may already have received an RSVP in the mail, but if you did not, please download the RSVP from this link Sally's Retirement Party RSVP, fill it out and mail it back to us. We would like to see you there.

In other Achieve news, 15 current and former Achieve members graduated this spring. This is wonderful news! They will be featured in our upcoming newsletter, due out next month.

We hope that our students have a well-deserved break this summer, and are ready to go again in August!

Recent Career Fair

Here are some pics from the recent College Fair for Learning Differences that Grady attended at the beautiful Sacred Heart-Griffin High School in Springfield

Before Break Bowling!

Before Spring Break, Achieve hosted a bowling night for the students and staff of the program. Many people turned out and had a great time. Below is a slide show from the event.

Rachel's Terrific 3-D design!

Before Spring Break, Rachel C. (photo posted with permission) brought by her terrific 3-D art project. She is a Biology major, so it is no surprise that her artistic talent was expressed in a biological form. I hope the pictures do her work justice. Well done, Rachel!

Spring Break!

Soon after Spring Break, we will be assembling our midsemester reports. They will contain any instructor feedback, grades, and our opinion of our students' progress. School officially starts again on March 15th. The last day to drop a class is March 21st.

Spring Fees appearing on Bursar Statements

January 7, 2010: Spring Semester 2010 Fees will appear on your next billing statement. The fees are currently posted to Bursar accounts and can be viewed on Salukinet. The billing was not submitted before the December billing was processed and therefore did not appear on most of the statements. The fees will appear as "CCAP Fees". If you have any questions please contact Ruth O'Rourke at rorourke@siu.edu or (618)453-6161

Billing For the Spring Semester

Some of you have already received your bills for the Spring Semester. Do not be alarmed if you do not see the Achieve Program fees on your bill. The earliest that Program fees will show up on your bill will be on the February statement. However, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call or email us.

We hope the New Year brings success to you and yours!