We have a writing center and the writing centers support students and faculty alike in the writing process. So students can go to the writing center with an initial idea and get help fleshing that idea out. They can bring an assignment and say, I don't know how to start this. I don't know where to begin. They can bring a draft of a paper and get some feedback and help and direction, but you can go to the writing center in any part of your process and get support for what you're working on.
Here at Alfred, we have one centralized person to work with all military affiliated students, so your veterans, ROTC, dependent spouses will all see one person, which is the military academic success coach. And that's the role I play here at Alfred, where I'm their go to for their GI Bill and their educational benefits. A lot of the times it can be a hard process. So having someone here step by step allows them to get the bill and the money process before they attend. Having a military affairs kind of section on campus. and having-- that allows those students to bond with other ones have been through the same things they have and feel a little bit more home when they might feel at home.
Supplemental instruction or SI as it's often called, is sort of like super tutoring. It's RSI leaders are students who have prayed previously taken the course, and they essentially take it again. So they're in the classroom, with the students demonstrating good note taking skills, how to ask effective questions. Sometimes they're working with the professors to facilitate the learning. And then they host three hours of group study sessions a week and that typically targets foundational courses that a lot of majors students and a lot of majors have to take.
Sometimes students have special supports in high school, and those supports can continue through college and colleges in the place to decide just to get rid of those supports. If you have supports in place in high school, you should continue those because they can be useful in your college career as well.
