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LEC encourages student learning

Taking advantage of the quiet environment provided by the Learning Enhancement Center, Dolores Gonzales-Hayes (right), a senior business major, receives help on her statistics homework from Cassandra Zievers, an alumna with a degree in International Studies. Zievers tutors students in statistics, English and computer skills. "The most wonderful experiences about tutoring are learning new information with the students, meeting people with diverse and amazing personalities and making new friends," said Marine Gradzhyan, an English tutor. If a student is unable to meet with a tutor during regular hours, he or she can arrange other meeting times. / photo by Christie Reed
Taking advantage of the quiet environment provided by the Learning Enhancement Center, Dolores Gonzales-Hayes (right), a senior business major, receives help on her statistics homework from Cassandra Zievers, an alumna with a degree in International Studies. Zievers tutors students in statistics, English and computer skills. “The most wonderful experiences about tutoring are learning new information with the students, meeting people with diverse and amazing personalities and making new friends,” said Marine Gradzhyan, an English tutor. If a student is unable to meet with a tutor during regular hours, he or she can arrange other meeting times. / photo by Christie Reed

by Louise Glanzrock
Staff Writer

The Learning Enhancement Center is a name many may not be familiar with. It is located next to Wilson Library and provides four different functions.

The first function the center provides is the Macintosh computer lab, where students can write papers, spreadsheets, and databases. All of the computers are hooked up to the World Wide Web, and students can do research and check their e-mail. The Center supervisors at the desk are trained on the computer. They can help anyone with whatever they need.

Two nights a week, there is a computer class in the LEC for the Education Department on Monday and Wednesday nights. The Education Department provides and pays for all of the computers for the student body to use.

Tutoring is also a function of the center. Last year, the Center tutored about 4,000 hours. The greatest area of tutoring is in English/writing, behavioral science, math and business.

If a tutor is not available for a subject that you need help with, the Center will contact the instructor and see if he or she has any previous students that can help on a temporary basis. Tutoring is free to all enrolled students at the University, no matter what level they are, CAPA, undergraduate or graduate.

“Right now we have about 28 tutors. Most of them are undergraduates, but we have four or five graduate tutors this semester, which is great,” said Lynn Stanton-Riggs, assistant professor of education and director of learning enhancement services.

Stanton-Riggs deals with students who have special needs in terms of a physical or learning disability.

“There are about 32 students this semester that come through and need some sort of special accommodation. Whether needing a notetaker, a higher table to slide their wheelchair under, an interpreter or extended time on tests, the Center provides it,” said Stanton-Riggs.

Stanton-Riggs also works with students that come in on a provisional entrance basis, which means they do not meet the regular admission requirement initially. She and the tutors work with these students as a team to get them off of probation.

The LEC hours are Mondays and Wednesdays, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Fridays, 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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