Academic Success Center
Academic Support
The mission of the Academic Success Center (ASC) is to provide academic guidance through peer-to-peer support, enhanced learning skills, and an atmosphere conducive to the learning process.
The ASC provides the following FREE academic services:
- Study Strategies & Goal Setting with a Success Coach: Students can meet with a peer academic success coach in-person or online. Success Coaches will work with you to identify specific goals and create a realistic and measurable action plan using effective strategies (time management, planning, SMART Goals, science-based study strategies, etc.). A peer success coach serves as a resource and accountability partner to help you navigate the college campus experience and your academic work load. They are a student like you who can offer tips and resources to support your success at Nevada State.
- Tutoring: Students can meet with trained peer tutors in-person or online in one-one, group, or drop-in tutoring sessions. The ASC offers support in a variety of subject areas such as: American Sign Language, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Math, Pre-Nursing, Psychology, Spanish, Statistics, Technology, and Visual Media. While experienced in the course content, tutors are not content experts and will not re-lecture the material or give direct answers. Instead, tutors and students will work together in order to develop an understanding of the material.
- Embedded Course Support: Embedded support takes the idea of tutoring to the next level – instead of a tutor waiting for students to come see them, the embedded peer leader:
- Attends the class with students and models positive student behaviors and engages during class discussions/activities
- Holds weekly structured group study sessions
- Provides individual mentoring or tutoring sessions outside of class (varies by type of service)
- Meets regularly with the course instructor to discuss common questions or challenges that students may be experiencing in the course
There are two embedded services at the ASC, the Course Assistant or “CA” program and Supplement Instruction or “SI” program. The Course Assistant Program targets first year gateway courses and focuses on helping new students transition to college through formal mentoring support. Supplemental Instruction targets upper level STEM, social science, or language courses and focuses on hosting the group review sessions outside of class, with less formal mentoring support.
- After-Hours Online Tutoring Support (NetTutor): When Nevada State Tutors are not available, students have access to 24/7 online tutoring through NetTutor located in their Canvas course home page. NetTutor allows students to connect on demand with an professional tutor for a live drop-in session 24 hours a day, schedule an appointment in advance, submit writing for detailed review, or ask a question offline. NetTutor does not require any special software installation or equipment. To access the service online, students sign in from any course home page in Canvas. For assistance with this service contact the ASC directly. This service is free to NS students. All students are allotted an initial 10 hours of online tutoring for the year. If a student maxes out their 10 hours, they can contact the Academic Success Center to request more time.
- Campus Workshops/Class Visits: The Academic Success Center offers research-based study and learning strategies to students and faculty/staff across campus. Please complete this form to request a class presentation or interactive study skills workshop for your course, student group, or department.
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