Academic Advising & Student Success Services

Academic advising at LR centers on the creation of an educational plan that reflects your own unique interests, abilities, goals and values. This plan includes both the coursework required for your degree and learning opportunities and experiences beyond the classroom, including co-curricular activities, study abroad and internships.

BEAR Central provides general advising services to all first-year and new transfer students as well as academic coaching and support to any student in need.

Our services equip you with the strategies and resources needed to:

• Explore academic interests and choose a major
• Develop plans to reach academic, personal, and career goals
• Engage in more productive study and learning behaviors
• Manage time more effectively
• Return to good academic standing
• Achieve the goal of earning a Lenoir-Rhyne University degree

General advising services are offered to all first-year and exploratory students as well as success coaching and help with academic planning to any student in need. We are open for drop-in appointments Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and is located in BEAR Central on the second floor of the Rudisill Library.

BEAR Central offers workshops and individual coaching for all students who are not in good academic standing in order to help you recover from past academic difficulties, return to good academic standing and achieve academic success.

First-generation students are those students whose parents/guardians did not complete a four-year college or university degree. 

Our goal is to help first-generation students tap into their strengths and meet their challenges in a supportive community of other first-generation students, faculty and staff.

Faculty and staff can find information about advising, related academic policies as well as important advising contacts alongside other faculty resources on the LR Portal. The university catalog is also a great resource.

Faculty may alert the Office of Student Support and Outreach when students have attendance, academic performance and/or other issues using the Student Concern Referral Form. This form automatically notifies Student Support and Outreach staff.

Student support staff will work immediately to connect with the student, determine need and quickly connect them to available resources, including, the Office of Student Success, Dean of Students, Cornerstone Wellness Center, counseling services and many others. In most cases, faculty and staff may not be updated on the referral outcome to maintain student confidentiality. 

Each student has a unique care network, comprised of campus members that can step in and support our students on their path to success.