Student Success Center
Academic Support Center
The Academic Support 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 Support 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 These lessons are supplemented and enhanced, however, with the unique learning environment available to all students at Maharishi University of Management.
Students at the University are guided in maintaining a healthy daily routine that includes:
- Twice daily practice the Transcendental Meditation technique. Research consistently shows that this technique awakens total brain potential and has a profoundly beneficial effect on learning ability, physical health, and social behavior.
- A block system of one course per month, with class from 10:00 a.m. to noon, and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and a similar routine on Saturday with class ending at noon.
- Three meals a day, which at our dining hall includes nutritious dishes, made with organic ingredients. Many of the dishes are made with Maharishi Vedic OrganicSM produce.
- An early bedtime before 10:00 pm.
- A good exercise routine
Maharishi University of Management students are welcome to contact the Academic Support Tutor for advice on any area of academic support:
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 Maharishi University of Management. 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.]
Contact information
Toni Alazraki, M.A.
Academic Support Tutor
Room 108
Maharishi Veda Bhavan Building
Extension: 4219
E-mail: talazrak@mum.edu