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for California State University, Fresno.
Learning Resource Center
Student Affairs
Peters Building Annex
559.278.3052
SONYA L. HILDRETH, Coordinator
http://www.csufresno.edu/lrc
Learning Resource Center
The Learning Resource Center endeavors to promote student self-responsibility, learning effectiveness, and academic success. To this end the LRC provides a variety of learning assistance, including tutoring, classes, workshops, and consultation to students, staff, and faculty.
The LRC provides handouts, individual appointments, and campus-wide workshops on how to improve academic success:
- Time management and procrastination
- Textbook reading and note taking
- Test preparation and test taking
- MLA/APA citation
- Relaxation and meditation techniques
- The top ten ways to flunk out of college
- Academic integrity and plagiarism
Tutoring is available in most subjects. Frequently requested subjects include mathematics, political science, statistics, physics, foreign languages, computer science, chemistry, microbiology, plus many more.
Additional hours of tutoring are available for courses in accounting, finance, decision sciences, business writing, and business law
We can assist with forming weekly study groups facilitated by a tutor.
Writing tutors are available to work with you on writing assignments from any academic discipline. Writing tutors are available on a drop-in basis or by appointment.
Our English as a second language writing tutors are particularly helpful with writing assignments if your primary language is not English.
General Education tutors will assist you with a variety of academic questions and problems in lower-division courses. They can also assist with the following:
- Understanding assignments
- Navigating Blackboard or ALEKS
Tutors are the following:
- Recommended by faculty
- Certified by the College Reading and Learning Association
- Expected to continue their professional development
Evening tutoring is available on a per semester basis as needed. Call or visit our Web page for tutoring times, workshop schedules, and applications for tutoring positions.
The Intensive Learning Experience (ILE) Program
The mission of the ILE Program is to increase retention and graduation rates of under-prepared college students.
The ILE Program provides academic assistance to freshmen scoring at or below the lower quartile on the EPT (Total 141) and/or the ELM (30 or below).
Assistance includes early intervention outreach, individual learning assessment, academic counseling, and tutoring.
The ILE Program partially supports basic skills courses offered through the English Department, the Linguistics Department, and the Mathematics Department.
University 20 Course
University 20, Academic Learning Strategies, focuses on learning and applying effective study habits. The class is offered in a seminar setting and counts as a 3-unit elective toward graduation.
Services to Faculty and Departments
LRC staff and tutors are available to conduct classroom presentations
on LRC services or study skills, provide assistance in forming study groups
for students in your class, offer specialized tutoring in high risk classes,
consult with you on how to incorporate learning skills into the curriculum,
and collaborate on research regarding student success.
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