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.


• Campus 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.
  • NetTutor After-Hours Online Tutoring Support: When Nevada State Tutors are not available, students have access to on demand online tutoring through NetTutor.NetTutor allows students to connect on demand with a 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 is free to NS students and 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 or view this How-To Guide.
• 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, there is an embedded peer leader who:
  • Attends the class with students and models positive student behaviors and engages during class discussions/activities
  • Holds weekly structured group study sessions that focuses on the most challenging topics covered in class
  • Provides individual support sessions outside of class
  • Meets regularly with the course instructor to discuss common questions or challenges that students may be experiencing in the course

  **This program is grounded in researched best practices from the International Center for Supplemental Instruction. The program targets historically difficult pathway or "gateway courses" and promotes student success by embedding near peers in the course who host proactive weekly group study sessions and mentor students on how to navigate the course as well as the larger campus/college life.



• 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.

CONNECT WITH US:
Location: Rogers Student Center, 256 (inside the Library)
Schedule an Appointment: https://web.penjiapp.com/schools/nsc/communities/asc-tutoring-services
Phone: 702.992.2990
Text: 702.605.2912
Email: asc@nevadastate.edu
Website: https://nevadastate.edu/asc/
Link Tree & Social Media: https://linktr.ee/tutoring_nevadastate