Collegiate Success
The Collegiate Success Scholar (CS) program offers extensive academic and student support to ensure that students achieve and maintain a successful academic foundation and remain on track to graduate. This program is designed to assist students with all aspects of student success through a case management approach with a focus on student engagement and assisting students with navigating academic and personal challenges.
About the program 
The Collegiate Success Scholar program started in Fall 2017 as an extension of 51²è¹Ý's Choose Ohio First STEMM Scholarship Program.
The program is designed to support and ensure that you maintain the minimum GPA to continue receiving your scholarship(s), and also to keep you on track with the appropriate credits and GPA to complete your degree.
Eligibility
The Collegiate Success Program proudly supports recipients of the Innovation Generation Scholarship, a distinguished award for Akron Public Schools (APS) students. Scholarship recipients are identified through a collaboration between the University and APS.
To learn more about the Innovation Generation Scholarship and its impact, please visit Undergraduate Scholarships | Student Financial Aid
Academic requirements to maintain the Collegiate Scholarship:
- Maintain full-time enrollment status at 51²è¹Ý
- Make continued progress toward a degree
- Maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.75 or higher
Additional requirements:
- Participate in academic coaching
- Attend events for Collegiate Success scholars
- Progress reports
- Check-in meetings
Contact OARS
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Email: oarsstaff@uakron.edu
Phone: 330-972-7760
Fax: 330-972-5848
OARS Staff
Office:
Simmons Hall 301 ()
277 East Buchtel Ave.
Akron, OH 44325-4000