What Does COMPASS Mean?

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COMPASS: A Roadmap to Healthy Living is designed to help you help yourself – to provide some direction as you encounter this transition time. COMPASS is built around the following themes important to your success:

Creating
You are the architect of your own future; you can create the overall vision, and specific directions you wish to follow.

Optimizing
You have the opportunity to take full advantage of the many campus and community resources; with this resource, you are encouraged to do this. It helps to have optimistic thinking and to engage the supportive people around you to maximize this opportunity.

Mapping
To achieve your goals, it’s important to outline your overall goals and what it will take to achieve these goals. These can be broad and narrow. What’s important is to use the appropriate tools from your toolbox to help you achieve these goals.

Planning
Helpful in achieving your dreams is planning; this helps organize your resources, and identify where you would benefit from assistance such as discussions, education, information, training, advising, and more.

Achieving
Progressing through small steps will be helpful in achieving your overall goals. Success points help you attain some confidence with your progress, and inspire you to achieve more.

Steering
As you move through your college career, you’ll undoubtedly need to make adjustments, whether in your major, activities, friendships, coursework, and overall goals. It’s critical that you make thoughtful decisions, and manage the variety of opportunities that come your way so you stay “on track.”

Succeeding
You can succeed if you work hard, organize yourself, identify your resources and needs, and strive to balance your competing needs. It’s important to identify your strengths and areas that need improvement.

We believe that the resources associated with COMPASS can help you significantly with your success in college. These resources do take time; however, this is an investment from which you’ll undoubtedly see rewards in the weeks and months to come.