University of Houston Clear Lake hosted a Student Services Fair at the University of Houston System at Sugarland Feb. 19, 1-7 p.m.

Career and Counseling Services, Financial Aid and Veterans Affairs, Student Information and Assistance, Student Life, Multicultural and International Student Services, Health and Disability Services, Student Publications and Enrollment Services provided information and answered questions for students at the fair.

In addition, workshops were offered to students. Career and Counseling Services offered a resume writing workshop. A scholarship workshop was offered by Student Information and Assistance, and a "Completing your FAFSA on the Web" workshop was offered by Financial Aid.

Lisa Gabriel, academic advising coordinator for the UHSSL Office of Distance Education, and Steve Sutton, associate dean of students at UH-Clear Lake, coordinated the event in hopes of informing UHSSL students about the student services offered by UH-Clear Lake.

UHSSL, founded in 1996, is a multi-institutional teaching center that combines the educational resources from University of Houston, UH-Clear Lake, UH-Downtown and UH-Victoria. It is an upper division MITCI campus that offers bacheloršs and masteršs degrees from the four UH System universities on a "home" campus. The campus is located at 14000 University Blvd. off US 59 South.

UHSSL is a MITCI campus offering courses from all four UH System universities and does not have all of the student services offices on campus. The goal of the fair was to inform UHSSL students about the student services available to them from UH-Clear Lake.

"We offer this personalized approach because our UH-Clear Lake students at UHSSL are entitled to the same level of service as our students here on this campus because they pay the same student services fee," Sutton said. "We planned this event in part to give students at UHSSL an opportunity to meet key student services staff all at one time, and to give the UH-Clear Lake student services staff an opportunity to visit the UHSSL site."

Nadia Kosseva and Diana Slavkova, graduate students from Bulgaria, attended the Student Services Fair in hopes of learning more about the UHSSL campus.

"Whatšs most important to me is what is offered in the classes and what I will learn," Kosseva said. "I am not concerned so much about the campus atmosphere."

"Wešve been students before, and wešve already lived the student life," Slavkova said. "Now, I am just looking for new opportunities."

With the convenience of a "home" campus, Sugarland students do not have to travel far to get a degree from one of the UH System universities. Courses are offered in a variety of ways.

Eighty percent of the courses are taught in traditional classrooms, while others are offered online, through instructional television and via videotapes.

For more information, log on to www.sugarland.uh.edu or call (281) 275-3300.

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