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Mission

To provide comprehensive student centered learning assistance programs, services and resources for all undergraduate students.

Objectives
  • To develop and/or enhance the academic skills necessary for mastery of college curricula.
  • To encourage students to achieve academic success and engage in lifelong learning.
  • To foster personal growth and development.

Where can I find help?
Academic Workshops Assistance with Writing Disability Services
Assistance with Math Basic Skills Instruction Study Groups
Assistance with Reading Counseling/Advisement Supplemental Instruction
Assistance with Time Management Choosing/Declaring a Major Technology Labs and Facilities
Assistance with Research   Tutorial Services

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Academic Support Center
At the Academic Support Center, students receive one-on-one tutoring assistance for numerous basic skills and lower-and upper-level courses. Other offerings include academic skills workshops, study groups and exam review sessions.

Basic Skills Program
The purpose of the program is to provide appropriate level coursework, encourage student use of support systems, and to develop critical thinking, problem solving skills and strategies, and overall growth in intellectual competence.

Career Development and Advisement Center
The Career Development Center provides a comprehensive career development program designed to assist students with appropriate career choices and plans to achieve their goals. The Gloria S. Williams Advisement Center offers an array of advisement services that include academic guidance to students, advisor training/development to faculty advisors, and information and referrals to the general campus community.


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Education Enrichment Center (EEC)
The EEC enhances students’ intellectual growth and personal development. Services include computer assisted instruction, workshops, learning communities, mentoring and leadership training.

Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) Program
The EOF Program provides access to higher education for academically under-prepared and financially disadvantaged New Jersey residents. Primary benefits and services include a residential summer program for first-year students, one-on-one counseling and advisement, academic and life skills workshops and financial assistance..

Library
The David and Lorraine Cheng Library serves as the academic information center of the University. Its primary goal is to acquire, organize and provide access to scholarly materials in traditional and emergent media, to support the educational programs of the University, to assist and instruct in the use of information resources, to provide a balanced and diverse collection, and to offer the broadest possible access to information whenever available.

Multimedia Language Center
The center supports and enhances instructional delivery of foreign language courses offered by the department of Languages and Cultures as it integrates an innovative multimedia Intranet/Internet based learning and teaching environment into the language curriculum.


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Office of Disability Services
The mission of the Office of Disability Services (ODS) is to assist students with documented disabilities by ensuring that reasonable accommodations and services are provided that guarantee equal access to all programs, activities and related benefits of the University's educational programs.

Office of the First-Year Experience
The Office of the First-Year Experience, works to implement a comprehensive University plan for first-year students that promotes a smooth transition from high school to college, acclimates them to the University's campus, educates them in various academic-related topics, integrates co-curricular activities, and identifies solutions for roadblocks to their success

Office of Testing
The office provides tests and testing services to the University community. Administered tests include the Basic Skills Placement Test, the Foreign Language Proficiency Exam, the College Level Examination Program (CLEP), the PRAXIS Series, the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), and Distance Education Exams.

Science Enrichment Center
The center provides tutorial assistance, references, a Virtual Science Resource Center, laboratory equipment, multimedia, study and other science skill training, workshops, cooperative learning, technological assistance and mentors.

Writing Center
The center provides one-on-one tutoring for anyone in the university community working on any kind of writing in any stage of development. Session topics usually include information about style, logic, voice, transitions, grammar, organization, proofreading and editing.

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