Tutoring/Academic
Study Abroad
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Advising!
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A free and open resource to all UM students situated in the basement of Dennison, this will have GSIs, professors, and exceptional undergrads that can help with the course material. It is also where people take their Gateway exams.
What is Math Lab?
100
In Angell Hall, this resource is the starting point for Study Abroad. It is where GIEU is run through and provides advising, financial aid, and scholarships to students.
What is the Center for Global and Intercultural Study?
100
Within another library, this library has a screening room, has 25,000 titles, and residence staff members can avoid copyright infringement by checking what the University is allowed to show.
What is the Askwith Media Library?
100
About to release an iPad application that will allow viewing of the delicate works, this collection is in Hatcher and features manuscripts from all the way back to 1200 BCE.
What is the Papyrology Collection?
100
In Angell Hall, this office features many fellow undergraduates as advisers. It also runs the Academic Peer Advisers for orientation and shares the first two words with my title.
What is Peer Academic Advising Office (PAAO)?
200
A resource that many students work with. It structures study groups that students have to sign up for and cannot miss more than two meetings. It is in the Chem Building.
What is the Science Learning Center?
200
An online gateway to various study abroad opportunities, it provides financial help, health/safety information, and features a tab for parents/family. It can be accessed through CGIS.
What is M-Compass?
200
On North Campus, this library has a digital fabrication lab and a Spatial and Numeric Data Services Lab. Also, the full answer is not wholly required to get this one...
What are Taubman College Digital Technology Tutorials?
200
Held at 5:10 pm on Thursdays at the Michigan Theater, this speaker series is coordinated through the School of Art and Design.
What is the Penny Stamps Lecture Series?
200
Across from South Quad, these offices are useful for international travel, government forms related to work and travel in and outside the US, and hold advising hours that might be useful for international students.
What is the International Center?
300
Students can schedule appointments (only once a week), attend workshops, has scholarships, and just came out with a new minor!
What is the Sweetland Writing Center?
300
Open to ALL students, although many think it is usually major-specific, 45-50 students are selected, provided an internship, create a research project, and are paired with a mentor that is a UM alum.
What is Michigan in Washington?
300
Online, this resource allows for viewing of pictorial works, photographs, and videos. It also has Art History and Italian and Romance Languages and Literature sections. It kind of rhymes with a popular, academic database.
What is ARTstor?
300
In Angell, this program holds a weekly tea on Thursdays from 3-5 pm, while also having writing contests for cash money.
What is the Hopwood Program?
300
A resource for students applying to this major, it is composed of current students in the program and probably experience a lot of traffic in the second semester. They are trained by admissions staff.
Who are the Pre-Business Peer Counselors?
400
Subject-specific, this resource is in Randall and the SPS maintains a list of tutors to connect students with for help in these introductory courses.
What is the Physics Help Room?
400
This can be used to satisfy the Upper-Level Writing Requirement, Natural Science Requirements, and has been in place since 1929. It allows students an 8:1 ratio in Yellowstone.
What is Camp Davis?
400
An online resource through the School of Music, it has collections of interviews on music that can be browsed by subject.
What is the Living Music Database?
400
On the Hill, this historic building has engaged in meteorology, seismology, and timekeeping. It also has over a hundred year old telescopes.
What is the Detroit Observatory?
400
Provided through Newnan, this online resource has information on a variety of topics from planning ahead, learning styles, contacting faculty, etc. It also connects to other academic resources.
What are Strategies for Success?
500
A 24 hour study area that features many undergraduate students as tutors in a wide variety of courses, this resource also provides academic development like time management workshops. This is specific to one college.
What is the Engineering Learning Center?
500
An experience where you can climb three mountains in the US with 40 other students and 13 instructors. The trip focuses on the culture, landscape, and writing of this part of the country. It occurs during the spring term and students earn 8 English credits.
What is the New England Literature Program?
500
In Hatcher, this collection has maps, government and information center, and one of two Spatial and Numeric Data Services centers on campus. It is a Congressionally designated depository for US Government Documents.
What is the Stephen Clark Library?
500
The oldest research collection of radical history in Hatcher named after a famed anarchist and labor organizer, all of its resources can be found through Mirlyn and even has a facebook page!
What is the Ladabie Collection?
500
Me, full title.
What is the Peer Academic Success Specialist?