Mission

Our instructional faculty and highly trained peer educators enhance learning through customized instruction, scholarly investigation, and faculty and student development.

Vision

To be a campus laboratory for developing and sharing disciplinary expertise in customized instruction.

Values

Professionalism: We value the professionalism of our peer educators and support their development and career paths through supervision and mentorship.

Inclusive: We foster an inclusive atmosphere that includes respect and support of diverse perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.

Learning Centered: We offer customized instruction which centers on learners' unique educational journey

Expertise: We commit to the development and transmission of academic, pedagogical and peer learning expertise.

Collaboration: We build and maintain mutually beneficial and productive collaborations through the exchange of expertise, tools and resources.

Experimentation: We support risk-taking and experimentation to develop, implement and evaluate new theories and practices.

Our Tutoring

The individual programs and centers that make up the Learning Centers maintain distinctive practices appropriate to their disciplines and missions. For example, the Science & Math Learning Center provides walk-in, "café style" tutoring to support specific, introductory STEM classes, while the Communication and Writing Centers deliver mostly prescheduled individual and group consultations to students in any subject. The Learning Centers continue to expand their academic mission beyond tutoring to support faculty development and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Our instructional faculty members teach courses and participate in service and scholarly activities in academic units across campus, including Chemistry, Communication Studies, Education, Graduate Psychology, Mathematics & Statistics, Media Arts & Design, Physics, and Writing, Rhetoric, & Technical Communication.