Students with Learning Difficulties
CSAS - Academic Success Workshops
An organization of staff, faculty and students who volunteer their time to organize workshops, events, and services to promote academic success among UCSC students.
Phone: 831-459-2552
URL: http://www2.ucsc.edu/csas/
Learning Center
The Learning Center, located at the Academic Resource Center (old Student Center), provides a variety of learning support services. It functions as a referral service to direct students to learning assistance programs including Academic Success courses, Modified Supplemental Instruction (MSI), tutoring, and study tables.
Phone: 831-459-4333
URL: http://www2.ucsc.edu/lss/
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STARS - Services for Transfer and Re-Entry Students
An umbrella organization including both Transfer and Re-Entry Services, STARS participates in the Coalition for Student Academic Success (CSAS), which offers an ongoing series of workshops for students. STARS has a team of tutors to assist re-entry and transfer students who need help in some upper-division and many lower-division courses.
The STARS main office is located in the ARCenter with a satellite office at the entrance to Kresge College.
Phone: 831-459-5899
Email: corky@cats
URL: http://www.ucsc.edu/stars/
ACE - Academic Excellence Honors Program
Strives to graduate a higher number of highly qualified, under-represented minority students in math, science, and engineering majors. Focuses on student retention and the promotion of excellence in early science classes.
Phone: 831-459-5283
E-mail: nancyck@cats
URL: http://ace.ucsc.edu
Tutoring
URL: http://www2.ucsc.edu/lss/tutorial_services.shtml
Students with Disabilities
Disability Resource Center
Academic accommodations are intended to provide equal access to students with disabilities by reducing the negative impact of their disabilities. The DRC web site has a resource page for faculty.
Disability Resource Center
Phone: 831-459-2089
E-mail: drc@ucsc.edu
URL: http://www2.ucsc.edu/drc
Students with Personal Problems
Working with Emotionally Distressed Students
These materials are designed to assist faculty and staff in identifying and intervening with students who are in distress. They were developed through the combined efforts of counseling centers comprising the Organization of Counseling Center Directors in Higher Education.
URL: http://www2.ucsc.edu/counsel/info_fac_staff.html
UCSC's Ombudsman
The Ombudsman's Office is a confidential and impartial resource available to all members of the campus community. The Ombudsman's Office assists students, staff, and faculty in achieving informal resolution of complaints and conflicts which stem from UCSC policies, procedures, practices, and intra-campus relationships.
Student Research Support
Net Trail
On-line information literacy tutorial for students.
Email: net3@library.ucsc.edu
URL: http://nettrail.ucsc.edu
Library Research Assistance
Online guides and tip sheets identify resources in McHenry and Science Libraries. Tutorials address the use of the Web for academic research and evaluation of Web resources.
URL: http://library.ucsc.edu/research.html
The How to...Do Research page has many helpful tips:
URL: http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/
This site is maintained by the Center for Teaching Excellence
at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Questions or comments welcome. Emailcte@ucsc.edu .
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