Campus Resources
This place offers free tutoring, writing help, and academic coaching.
What is the Academic Success Center (or Writing Center)?
Reviewing material regularly instead of cramming is called this technique.
What is spacing or distributed practice?
These are small communities based on interests or majors in residence halls.
What are Living-Learning Communities?
You should always check this before emailing a professor about a class issue.
What is the syllabus?
The number of credit hours that usually counts as full-time enrollment.
What is 12 credit hours?
You go here when you're sick or need a flu shot on campus.
What is the Student Health Centre?
This method includes previewing, questioning, reading, reciting, and reviewing.
What is the PQ4R method or SQ3R?
This group plans events, dances, and activities for students.
What is Student Government or Campus Activities Board?
When emailing a professor, you should always include this in the subject line.
What is your course name or section number?
GPA stands for this.
What is Grade Point Average?
This office helps students with class schedules, degree plans, and course registration.
What is Academic Advising?
This tool helps you stay organised and meet deadlines.
What is a planner or calendar?
The name for a class where students meet in groups with a peer leader to reinforce learning.
What is a supplemental instruction session or study group?
These are respectful ways to start and end an academic email.
What are "Dear Professor ___" and "Sincerely" or "Best"?
You must maintain this GPA to stay in good academic standing.
What is a 2.0 GPA?
This office helps students find internships, jobs, and career counseling.
What is the Career Services Center?
The rule that says study for 2 hours for every 1 hour in class.
What is the 2:1 rule?
This document tells you what to expect in class and includes rules, assignments, and deadlines.
What is a syllabus?
If you’re going to miss class, you should do this as soon as possible.
What is email the professor and check the syllabus for the absence policy?
FERPA is the law that protects this.
What is your educational privacy or student records?
This campus office supports students with documented disabilities.
What is the Office of Accessibility Services (or Disability Services)?
This note-taking method involves dividing your paper into sections for notes, questions, and summaries.
What is the Cornell Method?
This term describes getting involved in clubs, organizations, and service outside of class.
What is co-curricular involvement?
This professional tool can help you organize contacts and maintain a professional online image.
What is LinkedIn?
This type of class combines online and in-person learning.
What is a hybrid course?