Saluki Success Initiative

Saluki Success Initiative Program

The Saluki Success Initiative (EXP2/SSI) program is designed to provide academic support to a select group of students who show potential for college-level work but who do not meet regular University admissions requirements.  Without such an opportunity, these students would not be able to attend the University.

The SSI Program is a partnership through the Exploratory Student Advisement-Saluki Success Initiative Office and the College of Liberal Arts. The ESA/SSI Office provides students with academic support services during their first year that are designed to assist them in meeting SIU undergraduate requirements and in progressing toward graduation while preparing to declare their major or reapply to a competitive program. Services include mandatory academic coaching, advising, mentoring and tutoring for students as they take college-level courses that apply to their intended degree programs.

Academically, SSI students are within the College of Liberal Arts for at least their freshman year; they see advisors within CoLA in order to schedule their classes, they can live in the CoLA LLC, they take CoLA sections of UNIV 101, and they are invited to all College events and activities.