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2009

Elementary and Early Childhood Education Faculty Publications

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A Center For Academic Achievement: How Innovative Collaborations Between Faculty And Learning Center Administrators Built Model, Credit-Bearing, First-Year Courses With Embedded Support For At-Risk Students, Elaine Bukowiecki, Susan Miskelly, Dorie Aucoin, Heidi Burgiel, Kathryn Evans, Ruth Farrar, Julia Stakhnevich, Steven Viveiros Jan 2009

A Center For Academic Achievement: How Innovative Collaborations Between Faculty And Learning Center Administrators Built Model, Credit-Bearing, First-Year Courses With Embedded Support For At-Risk Students, Elaine Bukowiecki, Susan Miskelly, Dorie Aucoin, Heidi Burgiel, Kathryn Evans, Ruth Farrar, Julia Stakhnevich, Steven Viveiros

Elementary and Early Childhood Education Faculty Publications

Establishing a centralized learning assistance program to systematically address the academic challenges of all students was the first priority of the Academic Achievement Center (AAC) at Bridgewater State College when it was formed in 2001. This new, open, bright, comfortable, and inviting place has truly become the heart of the campus, for it is here that abundant human and material resources are available to support all students. In this learning environment, students can access services in advising, testing, disabilities resources, study, research, writing, communication, mathematics, adaptive technology, tutoring, and English as a second language. Primary responsibility for learning assistance lives …