Academic Center

Academic Support Programs & Services Center

New Mexico State University Academic Support Programs & Services Center is committed to providing quality educational services that achieve academic, personal and career success for all student-athletes. The ASPSC offers a full range of support and referral services to assist student athletes in their holistic growth and development. The Associate Athletics Director and the Director of the ASPSC provide the overall leadership to the unit as well as partnership to Student Affairs on campus. The Director of the ASPSC supervises the day to day operational aspects of the center with a highly qualified staff including: two full time Academic Coordinators and ten Student Development Specialists who are all dedicated to helping student-athletes develop the skills necessary to become independent and successful learners.

We currently serve 425 student-athletes, with an average of 120 coming through our doors on a daily bases for a variety of reasons. Our academic center is open 67 hours a week for student athletes to engage in their educational pursuit through the programs and services. With the appropriate internal and external personnel and resources working towards the common goal of graduation, every student-athlete will be assured to have the necessary tools to maintain and surpass steady progression toward their fulfillment of their degree requirements.

The ASPSC Staff understand that participating in NCAA Division I athletics presents additional challenges for student-athletes. The ASPSC provides student-athletes with an environment that promotes respect and integrity for academic honesty and success. We are devoted to coordinating and implementing a variety of support systems to encourage the academic success of our student athletes as they pursue their college degrees and athletic goals.

The most comprehensive aspect of the programs and services we offer to student-athletes is our Early Warning Academic System which was designed and implemented to improve our student athletes continued success by establishing communication with Professors to ensure strong academic progress throughout each semester. One branch of the system is the Professor E-mail Academic Requests that are sent out periodically during each semester which helps create a one to-one intervention throughout the semester between the professor/instructor, student-athlete and academic office for student-athletes. As a partnership, this method provides an avenue for continued communication throughout the semester on concerns such as academic progress in the course and class attendance. This method has been shown statistically to connect the student athlete’s class attendance and their correlation to academic success. Ultimately, the Early Warning Academic System provides a better connection for the student-athlete to utilize the various programs and services offered to them through ASPSC.