- We can help.
Welcome to Southwestern's Center for Counseling and Student Success!
Curious about who we are and what we can do for you? You can start by exploring our website. But in addition, we encourage you to visit us as well. You'll find a friendly staff, a wealth of services, a quiet place to decompress the stress of university life, and chocolate in abundance.
Schedule an Appointment
Kathie Robertson, Southwestern's Testing Administrator, can help you set up a time to take a test or to visit with one of the center's staff members. Please contact her at 817-202-6255 or robertsonk[at]swau.edu.
Career Planning
You may have come to the university knowing just what career path to take or you may be exploring many careers. We are pleased to support you on your journey to a profession that will match your vocation.
Southwestern's students and staff are welcome to take any of the career or interest inventories available through the Center for Student Success. Results offer insight into your aptitudes, achievements, interests, personality, and values, and how these will affect a particular career path.
You may find that your vocation--what Christians think of as a calling from God--is prompting you to take on new academic challenges. We want to help you.
Counseling
Dr. Mark Aldridge, a licensed counselor, is available for personal, couple, emotional, relational, and career counseling. His services are free of charge for Southwestern students. All contacts with a counselor at the Counseling and Student Success Center are covered by the appropriate Federal and State confidentiality laws and requirements. This means that any information disclosed during your contact with the counselor will be kept strictly confidential as required by law and by applicable ethical standards, with rare exceptions as noted in the agreement that you will read and sign before your first counseling session.
Academic and Disability Support
Our Mission:
It is the mission of the Students with Disabilities and Academic Support Office to help student with disabilities develop academically, socially and spiritually through support.
Goals of Students with Disabilities and Academic Support Office
The Students with Disability and Academic Support Office seeks to empower students with disabilities to access all aspects of university life at Southwestern Adventist University through:
- The implementation of appropriate accommodations in accordance with Section 504/ADA policy.
- Assisting students with disabilities as they learn to self-advocate. Assist them with academic excellence, time-management and self-knowledge.
- Coordinating academic and other support services by collaborating with the students, faculty and university staff.
- Education of the university faculty and staff about disability issues and concerns.
- Fostering student development academically, socially and spiritually through the support of the Disabilities and Academic Support Office.
Services and Accommodations:
The Students with Disabilities and Academic Support Office offers a range of accommodations and support services designed to assist students with disabilities. Each person has a unique set of needs, and reasonable accommodations are determined on an individual basis, utilizing the student's disability-related documentation. The accommodations and services are available to students with appropriate documentation on file. Accommodations and services include:
Accommodations
The following services may be available on a case by case basis depending on the documented disability:
Determination of appropriate accommodations
Note takers
Extended testing time
Classroom accommodations or modifications
Communication with faculty and advisor regarding student needs
Assistance obtaining recorded textbooks and identifying readers/scribes/attendants
Information and referral for additional services
accessibility information
advocacy
audio books
braille materials (limited)
Distraction Free Testing
sign-language interpreters
Additional services and accommodations may be offered based on documented needs.
Disabilities and Academic Support Office
The Director of Students with Disabilities and Academic Support serves as a liaison for students with the faculty, staff, and administration. The Director’s office is located in Room 125 in Scales Hall which is in the basement of Scales Hall.
Dorie Cruz
Director of Students with Disabilities and Academic Support
(817) 202-6290 Office
(817) 556-4744 Fax
cruzd[at]swau.edu
Documentation Requirements
ADD/ADHD Documentation Guidelines
General Disability Documentation Guidelines
Specific Learning Disability Documentation Guidelines
Testing Center Staff
R. Mark Aldridge
Director, Counseling and Testing Center
o: Scales Hall
p: 817-202-6355
Dorie Cruz
Director of Students with Disabilities
o: Scales Hall
p: 817-202-6290
Testing Services
We offer an assortment of tests to assist you in your educational endeavors. And we can help you find a testing center for graduate and professional exams also. Fees apply for many of these tests.
College Admissions tests, including ACT and SAT
College Level Examination Program or CLEP tests
Mathematics Advising Profile, or MAP
Personality, aptitude and occupational tests, including 16pf, MBTI, and COPSystem
Test proctoring services
We also provide alternate date testing for the THEA (Texas Higher Education Association) and LSAT (Law School Admission Test) exams. Information on these exams and the scheduled dates can be found at www.thea.nesinc.com and www.lsac.org respectively. Fees apply for these tests as well.
Successful Students
Successful students are values driven.
They model integrity and desire self-improvement.
They demonstrate decorum and respect for others.
They are resourceful and take initiative.
They assume responsibility for their actions and they understand their choices will influence others.
They have a strong sense of personal efficacy and influence.
They are disciplined, focused, able to persevere, and can schedule their time.
They balance their intellectual creativity, imagination, and creativity with care for their health and diet.
Their pride of accomplishment and self-presentation is balanced by their humility and commitment to service.
