CHSU Academic Support
These professionals, available for OMS-I and OMS-II students, help you improve study strategies, time management, and exam preparation through 1:1 meetings.
Who are the Learning Specialists?
This CHSU philosophy, created by Andrew Taylor Still, rooted in osteopathic medicine, emphasizes caring for the whole person — mind, body, and spirit.
What is the Philosophy of Holistic Care
This learning strategy involves reviewing material over increasing intervals to fight the "curve of forgetting."
What is Spaced Repetition?
This Behavioral Health Specialist is EMDR certified and has a background in working with foster care systems.
Who is Lisa James
This online tool provided by the CHSU Library helps you locate books, eBooks, journals, and articles across multiple databases.
What is the Library Catalog (or OneSearch)?
Held every Thursday from 5–7 PM in Room 241, this resource offers flexible drop-in help for students seeking academic support.
What are Open Tutoring Hours?
This form of professional support is available on campus or via telehealth and offers confidential counseling services.
What is CHSU Counseling Services?
This technique mixes related topics during study sessions to help students compare and contrast concepts more effectively.
What is Interleaving?
This Learning Specialist sees education as one big, beautiful word problem and used to teach high school math for 14 years.
Who is Cat Rosales?
If you need help citing sources or using APA format, you can consult this library-provided resource or request help from this person.
What is the Citation Guide or a Librarian?
This committee monitors student progress and may recommend support interventions for those facing academic or professional challenges.
What is the Student Progress Committee (SPC)?
Located in downstairs, this office offers students access to mental health support and other academic supports.
What is the Office of Student Affairs (OSA)
Tools like Sketchy and Picmonic support this strategy, which uses verbal and visual formats to strengthen memory.
What is Dual Coding?
This individual is your go-to for immunizations, drug screening, and background checks—and loves scary movies.
Who is Tianna Taylor?
This service allows students and faculty to request materials not owned by CHSU’s library from other institutions.
What is Interlibrary Loan (ILL)?
These structured, small group learning sessions allow students to apply conceptual knowledge through teamwork, individual work, and feedback.
What is Team-Based Learning (TBL)?
This digital support tool offers confidential, app-free mental health resources through texting.
What is Early Alert?
This strategy encourages applying knowledge to clinical scenarios by identifying similarities in new patient cases.
What are Concrete Examples?
This Director of Student Services claims to always win "Two Truths and a Lie" and holds two Master’s degrees.
Who is Danielle Quiroga?
CHSU Library provides these learning sessions to help students become better researchers, either in-person or virtually.
What are Library Instruction Sessions or Workshops?
This group provides academic guidance and monitors progress through tools like RATs, ILS, CIS, and exam scores on Brightspace.
Who are the Academic Achievement Directors?
This strategy involves setting realistic expectations, knowing your capacity, and adjusting priorities to manage mental and emotional health.
What is practicing Self-Care and Setting Boundaries?
This method involves recalling information from memory to reinforce learning, such as by answering practice questions or free writing what you know.
What is Retrieval Practice?
This person supports student organizations, events, and travel—and once worked with Jerry Tarkanian as a student athletic trainer.
Who is Jesse Hernandez?
This is the name of the CHSU Library's online portal where students can access databases, research tools, and subject-specific guides.
What is the Library Website or LibGuides?