One-on-one sessions of 50 minutes per day with professional staff.

Support with:

• All aspects of writing
• Organizing time and materials
• Active reading/volume reading
• Critical thinking/reading
• Note-taking/revision
• Test preparation/taking
• Strategizing for academic success

The Drake Center for Academic Support offers:

• Assistance with accessibility features in the Microsoft Office suite
• Support with Kurzweil text-to-speech
• Support with Dragon Naturally Speaking speech-to-text
• One-on-one support with applications that support time management, active reading, research skills, and test preparation

Students often find that relying on a scheduled study time is important. Study support sessions offer a small-group setting where students can work quietly with the option of setting small goals for work completion with check-ins to help increase focus and production. This support is guided by professional staff.

Through individual meetings, our trained advisors and professional staff work with students to establish academic goals.

Students who benefit from additional support with executive functioning receive support in initiating, activating, prioritizing, planning, and executing tasks.

Coaching is part of the Advising process, and can also be supplemented through additional appointments in the Drake Center.

The Drake Center offers synchronous online academic support using Microsoft Teams. When scheduling appointments students have the option to request a virtual appointment during regularly scheduled hours.

This service is available to both residential and online students.

In addition to office hour appointments with individual faculty members, students are encouraged to access science support by appointment in the Drake Center.

Support and instruction is available for all science-specific needs, including:

• Writing lab reports
• Textbook study
• Vocabulary building techniques
• Scientific writing

Math support is offered by appointment in the Drake Center, and can be scheduled online, or by contacting the Drake Center. Math support is provided by math faculty and Drake Center support staff.

Drop-in support is offered for students who need day-of support. Students will often have access to staff one-on-one during drop-in hours, but they may need to share time with other students. If multiple students show up for drop-in hours, staff will move between students, offering 1:1 support in a rotation. Drop-in hours vary semester-to-semester.