With courses starting today, the Center for Academic and Professional Success, the Writing and Communication Center and the Tutoring and Testing Center are three on-campus resources available for students to help them professionally and academically.
Johnny Kevorkian, associate director of Employer Relations for the Center for Academic and Professional Success, said CAPS helps students and alumni with academic and career advice.
“I think it’s so important to use [CAPS] resources because college isn’t just [about getting] your grades [or getting] your classes. It’s building your experiences well in school to supplement what you’re learning,” Kevorkian said.
CAPS assigns career and academic success coaches to undergraduate students for academic and career advising.
“I always recommend meeting [in] your first year with your CAPS adviser to develop a career plan as well as an academic plan and finding ways to really supplement your academics with experiential learning,” Kevorkian said. “I would say they are your partner, your guide from freshman year to senior year.”
Kevorkian said students can also use CAPS advising for professional development.
“Getting experience on your resume, and even if it’s not exactly in your major, but just getting professional experience is so valuable and just as valuable as getting a degree,” Kevorkian said.
The CAPS office is located in the William and Norma Horvitz Administration Building.
The Writing and Communication Center is another resource for students, located on the fourth floor in the Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center. Its staff reviews students’ work and helps them improve their writing and communication skills.
“In the writing center, we take appointments from any discipline on campus. So you can come with PSYCH, you can come with CHEM, you can come with COMP, UNIV, whatever class you’re in,” Cailin Coviella, assistant director of the WCC, said. “We work with students from any stage of their writing, so from inception brainstorming to publishing or turning it in to their teachers.”
Coviella said the WCC offers students individual consultations from student staff members.
“You sit one-on-one with a consultant, and they work with your paper for 45 minutes. So you get one-on-one help with your paper,” Coviella said.
Also the WCC has Writing Fellows, student consultants embedded into composition courses, Coviella said.
“You have a friendly face, so you’re not nervous to go do something you’ve never done before. You know someone. They’re in your classroom. You can meet with them and they know your teacher’s rubrics and your teacher’s specific requests on that paper,” Coviella said.
Another helpful resource for students is the Tutoring and Testing Center, located on the second floor in the Student Affairs Building.
Eric Gommermann, assistant director of Academic Support Services for the Tutoring and Testing Center, said the TTC focuses on tutoring students taking STEM-based courses.
The TTC serves as an academic support for students through peer tutoring. Gommermann said peer tutoring is mainly where students meet one-on-one with a staff peer.
He also said the TTC provides other services, such as Supplemental Instruction where a student SI leader is assigned to guide students through course material, Peer Academic Consulting where consultants offer students studying skills and Testing Services where students can makeup exams they missed, take mock exams or be proctored during exams external to the NSU community.
For more information:
To make appointments with CAPS and the TTC, use Navigate on SharkLink.
To make appointments with the WCC, visit nova.mywconline.com.
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