About the Academic Support Center
The Academic Support Center
The Academic Support Center provides academic support services to all JU undergraduate students. We are here to serve you and do everything possible to ensure that you are successful throughout your education here at 探花族.
Meet with any one of our highly-trained, faculty-referred, peer tutors who can help you broaden your understanding of class material, decipher difficult problems and projects while also offering learning strategy development, test preparation skills, and anything you may need to improve your academic success. Make on-going appointments for the whole semester or just a one-time appointment for some clarification.
Academic Support Center's Vision:
Provide learning support through thoughtful, current resources that encourages students to be confident, independent learners.
Academic Support Center's Mission:
The Academic Support Center promotes independent learning and self-efficacy by helping JU undergraduates develop strategies and resources that foster academic confidence and metacognitive development in order to support student success and retention.
Academic Support Center's Core Values:
We accomplish our mission in a culture of excellence, characterized by the integrity, diversity, and collegiality of the exceptional peer and professional staff, and by fostering leadership, academic confidence, and self-efficacy in the students with and for whom we serve. We value:
Collegiality: Reflected in a variety of cross-campus collaborations and in the co-learning between
tutors and their peers.
Diversity: Reflected in our encouragement of tutors鈥� diverse thinking and learning and
in the
employment of a tutoring staff with varied demographics and
backgrounds.
Excellence: Reflected in the academic standing of the tutors, in the quality of our tutor
training
program, and in the efficacy of our services.
Integrity: Reflected in the honesty, reliability, and accountability of the peer and professional staff.
Leadership: Reflected in the professionalism, vision, autonomy, and teamwork of all tutors
as student
leaders, and in the guidance provided by professional staff.
Tutoring and Academic Integrity
Please note that all students involved in a tutoring session (both the tutor and the tutee) are expected to abide by all policies outlined in the 探花族 Academic Integrity & Misconduct Policy, as well as the Green Pages Code of Conduct. Any behavior that violates these policies may result in no longer being able to utilize tutoring at the Academic Support Center. In particular, any student who offers to pay an ASC tutor to complete an assignment, test, and/or course for that student, will prohibited from attending tutoring sessions for the remainder of that semester, and possibly the entire academic year.