Student Success Center
Academic Skills Center
The Academic Skills Center provides learning assistance for students who need an extra boost in their study skills so they can take full advantage of the University’s unique educational experience.
The Academic Skills Center uses all the traditional approaches to study skills, writing, and ESL. These include lessons on goal setting and time management, active listening and note taking, efficient study reading, preparing for and taking exams, paragraph development, and grammar exercises. The ASC also oversees ED 110 Optimizing Learning Skills, Well Begun is Half Done, an undergraduate course.
Advice on Study Skills
The pages in this section are useful for students and faculty. The following links provide practical information on:
Fundamentals of Learning
Goal Setting and Time Management
Active Listening and Note Taking
Referencing Guidelines
Efficient Study Reading
Preparing for and Taking Exams
Establishing Validity
Guide to Use of Sources
We invite students and faculty to print out the materials in this section. Please note these materials are copyrighted to MUM. If you are a faculty member using them with students and need to alter them in any way, please keep our copyright information on the sheet and indicate where you have altered the material. For example, if you wish to add in your own advice on note taking, it is fine to add in the advice and put right after your addition: [added by ____________ at _________ University.]
Students are welcome to contact the Academic Skills Center for advice on any area of academic support. The Academic Skills Center also offers feedback on written assignments.
Work-study positions are available for students who wish to become peer tutors. Students interested in these positions can email Sheila Swanson, Director of the Student Success Center.
Contact information
Sheila Swanson
Director, Student Success Center
Dreier Building
Room 105
Extension: 1229
Email: sswanson@mum.edu
The content of this page was reviewed in August 2011.
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