MISSION STATEMENT

The CAS is dedicated to empowering students to achieve academic success. We believe educational programs and services should cater to multiple learning styles, and all people deserve access to an atmosphere of respect, openness and trust. We are committed to helping students in need of academic support to meet their individual goals, regardless of age, gender, race, or physical ability.

At the Center for Academic Success, students can:

• Get help with subjects such as English, math, foreign languages, etc.
• Be taught how to succeed in class.
• Work one-on-one with a tutor to get personalized help.
• Attend workshops for help on specific topics (ex. verb usage, essay writing)

A tutor CAN help you with:

Academic Skills-

• Effectively reading and comprehending a textbook.
• Practicing language skills.
• Understanding errors corrected by an instructor.

 Content and Grammar-

• Brainstorming/Prewriting for a topic.
• Organizing a paper’s structure.
• Identifying run-on sentences and fragments.
• Understanding verb tenses and how to use them.
• Understanding parts of speech (ie. noun, verb, adjective, adverb).

A tutor CANNOT help you with:

• Writing ALL of your homework/paper.
  • It is plagiarism if a tutor did your work for you.
• Editing papers or going through a quick grammar fix-it.
  • We want to teach YOU how to proofread and edit YOUR papers.

Remember, if we do everything for you, you will always need a tutor.

We want YOU to be successful!