As the primary academic support service for students, the Student Learning Center helps undergraduates transition to the campus, navigate the academic terrain, create networks of resources, and achieve academic, personal, and professional goals. Through various service formats and programs, the Center supports students in the biological and physical sciences, mathematics, social sciences, statistics, writing, and study strategies.

The Athletic Study Center (642-8402) provides a comprehensive academic support program for intercollegiate athletes to help them adjust to student life and to enhance their academic success. Services include academic advising, and individual and group tutoring in the areas of writing, mathematics, social sciences, languages, and the sciences.

The Disabled Students’ Program (642-0518) refers students needing tutoring to the Student Learning Center. Tutoring referrals are also made to the Honor Society when appropriate.

The Transfer, Re-Entry, and Student Parent Center provides a wide array of services to transfer students, non-traditional age students who have resumed their education after an absence of five years or more, and to student parents. The services include courses for credit designed for new and continuing students; academic skills workshops; advising; resource seminars; special events including orientations and a graduation ceremony; and a large community center staffed by peer advisors. In addition to grants and an annual prize for poetry and prose, work-study, internships, and volunteer positions are available.

Some colleges and departments offer their own tutoring services. There are programs that offer tutoring for specific groups of students. The Biology Scholars Program, the Professional Development Program, the Chemistry Scholars Program, the Multicultural Engineering Program, and the Physics Scholars provide intensive discussion sections through their respective academic departments to assist students; links to these programs may be found at the Coalition for Excellence and Diversity in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering.

Various honor societies offer drop-in tutoring for their specific discipline (e.g., computer science, engineering, and the all-inclusive honor society).

The residential living communities offer a living/learning environment for students. Over 95 percent of all freshmen live in university-run residence halls. In partnership with the College of Letters and Science and other campus units, Housing offers tutoring, computing, workshops, faculty programs, and advising at Academic Centers in each of the undergraduate residential communities. For example, students can receive tutoring in math, chemistry, and writing; join ongoing study groups in subjects such as physics and economics; and attend writing and study skills workshops.

last updated on 3/21/07