2016-2017 Graduate Catalog

Jandrisevits Learning Center

Office of Academic Support

Academic Support Services

The Jandrisevits Learning Center (JLC) is SHU’s central academic support service and is open to all SHU students. The JLC offers students at every academic level an opportunity to improve their content area knowledge and to develop academic skills needed to succeed in their coursework. Staffed by highly experienced faculty, graduate, and peer tutors in disciplines across the curriculum, the JLC provides a warm, friendly learning environment that fosters the growth of self-directed learning. The JLC offers the following support services free of charge to all SHU students:

  • Individualized tutoring in many disciplines provided by faculty, graduate, and peer tutors (by appointment);
  • Classroom Learning Assistants (CLAs), who are peer tutors nominated by faculty to provide academic support to students in disciplines across the curriculum;
  • Workshops on college-level study skills such as note-taking, time management, test-taking, critical reading and writing, oral presentations, and math concepts and problem-solving; and
  • Online Writing Lab (OWL) for online feedback with written assignments.