 Hi there, this is Jessica Hagman at Alden Library, and today I'm on the second floor in the Academic Achievement Center, which is now on the second floor of Alden Library. It used to be on the first floor, and in just a moment, I'm going to turn you around so you can see Dr. Tamika Scott, who is the Director, is that the title? I'm sorry, my apologies, Assistant Dean, and leads this whole operation, of which there are a lot of parts you might not be aware, because there's a lot of things happening here. So we'll get a little tour of their area, and hopefully some more information about what happens here and how you might want to take advantage of those. Let me turn you around. Okay, Dr. Scott, Assistant Dean Scott, if you could kind of tell us where we are now and what happens in this area of the AAC. As part of the AAC, we consider this to be our CAP hub or lounge, as I call it, but it's here for our CAP students who are our TRIO Student Support Service students, and it's approximately 200 or so students in this area. And they use this space for just to hang out, as well as study groups, study tables. And right here, we actually have where our CAP re-printing is at. So this is the space that they use for that. And so you said they come here to do, like, studying and things like at these tables here, like study tables? Study tables, sometimes they just come to talk to the preventer, particularly where the preventers will be, or actually to get some work done on the computers, take advantage of the free funding services, or they just come to hang out in the space. And you said that people who are in CAP are already identified for the last part. They would have been told about that when they registered. They typically do an incoming process for incoming students, where we're making students who are a first-gen ratio of income, or students who have been identified with disability services. And those students are the students that we recruit to, and then we do a selection process through there to give them to maintain our 275 million participants. And you have peer mentors, too, who work. Are they, like, former, not former, but they're also CAP students? They're also CAP students who are more than likely a junior senior here at the institution, and academically successful and navigated the system. And you said they spend some time here to really talk to those students. So they spend their time here doing this kind of study, and they also impose their own study table times here as well, and then they encourage students to actually come into the space, and they just have some, like, a study buddy, or someone to have some conversation with about how things are going on campus, and questions to answer. They're sort of like one-stop shopping, so they have great conversations as well as doing some study. Awesome. Okay, so I'm just going to need to move over here a little bit. Can you tell me what other kind of things happen here aside from the CAP program? Yeah, so outside of the CAP program, we also offer our university college courses. So we have our 1,100 courses. This is our learning strategy course. We also have time management, and we have college study skills writing. I'm sorry, college study skills reading, and study skills, and that's the most evident of these two classrooms over here. Okay. So their sort of club office is right there as well. But they usually do their meetings out on this other part of the second floor, right? Yes. Okay. So this is like the hub that happens kind of all over this floor, wherever there's room. Yes, okay. Okay, I'm going to turn around and show people the desk. There will usually be a super friendly students, so you can't see them right now, but there is a student sitting here who will, if you're not sure where to go or to meet your tutor, you can stop here and they will help you with that. One thing that I didn't know when we were talking earlier was about the study skills coaching that's available to everyone. Can you talk a little bit more about that? Or sort of about some questions off on, as well as to provide some intentional ways to study to improve your grading or to make your grading a higher, or to improve your grading sense. So if you're stuck with time management, they can provide you with some strategies to manage your time a little bit more effectively. If it's something as it relates to just really understanding the best way to study for something, so those test takings skills are needed, they can help you navigate that process as well. I was just about a conversation of what it means to be a college student and how do you manage, from one phase, always receiving aids across to now, you start sort of balancing the transition from high school to college. It sort of happens in those college study skills. Is that a newer thing that's been happening? That's something that the Academic Achievement Center has been doing for a very long time. The partnership that we have with the Allen Center is what's new. Our intentional outreach to the rest of the campus community regarding coaching is something that is new. Although it's something we've always done in this space, we're being more intentional with sharing it with other entities on campus. So we're trying to build those collaborative networks to catch people who need the help. So we also heard from Tiffany who talked about tutoring, kind of more general tutoring. Could you give us a quick, does that work for students who need help with classes? Yes, so to advise there's so many students you should go to the AAC for tutoring. And a student will come down and they'll say, I need help with a class. And if we are traveling with a class, then it's just a matter of connecting them with a tutor to track, and then they can register and sign up for a class themselves. If it's a class that we don't offer, then we refer the student directly to waiting to then go out and find either a tutor or find a resource so that students don't need to be successful. So tutoring can happen in a variety of ways. We have a set of classes that we typically offer just based off of what has been the culture of the university where we've seen students try it in. And then we also have classes that may not have been on our radar and then can be coming in and forwarding that, and then we can go into some research to find out if it was a class that we should offer to students. Okay. And then so supplemental instruction was for specific classes like chemistry and math. Do we have that in those classes? Yes. So supplemental instruction is a little bit different than our tutoring in the sense of Amanda is looking directly at classes that have the high DWF rate to them. And so those are the classes that then we build supplemental instruction to support. So you cannot be doing well in one class, but it's not one of those that we have seen based off the research to show that it is a high-level supplemental course and that might not be a class that we offer. So with supplemental instruction is also an improved setting whereas peer tutoring is typically done. Okay. And then for supplemental instruction it's pretty much it helps you throughout the semester. So it's different to come to peer tutoring and it might be one time. Supplement instruction you're going to go across the academic semester receiving information to help you understand and digest the information that you're receiving in the classroom. So literally, I mean his name is literally supplemental instruction. It's meant to be almost like another class for people who want or need the help with those really hard classes. More educational conversation, more reflection to understand materials so that you can apply the material in order to be successful in that course. So just hearing everyone talk about the work that you would hear and I hear you saying word intentional a lot. It's really clear how much work goes into planning and making these services available. So thank you, of course, for doing that. Is there anything else we should know about the AC sign off? Sure, yeah, that would be great. Yeah, that would be awesome. Oh, right, because we're doing construction right now, but that's okay. I do want to turn around quick and show what this looks like for people who are coming in. So if you come in second floor, so over there is like the library help desk and then I'm going to turn around and show you what this looks like. So if you, there's a sign that is almost always there, I think, thank you. And then so this is that you can't really see like the extent of what's here, which is what's so hard, but this whole area is the endless struggle of buildings like this, right? And so this is the, this is a mean, tell me what happens here during the day. This right here is where they will do coaching and have other meetings within the AC and then after five, if a student or student group wants to use the space, they can reserve the space the same way they would reserve any other classroom space in the library. And we always tell students that if this is empty and we're not using it, come to our fund desk and ask can you use the space and we'll let you use it. It's a nice size room, but yeah. We did some photos of the tutors in there last semester. Those turned out pretty well for tutoring week. Okay, so we are heading back through the second floor. There's the elevators to my left. Some leftover whiteboards from this summer, or the semester. I love the whiteboards in here. And so we have some nice new carpet. You can't smell it, but it smells like new carpet. And during this semester, this area is just filled with people doing all sorts of tutoring. Yes, so this is literally where, so from this side over here through this side, this is where you're going to get your peer tutoring as well as your math and science tutoring. The sign for says writing zone. Beyond that point you'll have tables and chairs very similar to this, but that is where the writing center does their tutoring. Okay, I've gotten questions about that. Sometimes people are there trying to find their tutor. So writing center is behind the writing center zone, so the tables behind there. So we can zoom in a bit. That's where you're looking for the writing center. And then the rest of this would be peer tutoring and the math and science center. And it goes from this as well as this open space that's over here. So it's quite large. It's just hard to tell because it's not easily designated. Which is pretty much how everything goes here. But there are restrooms back here. If you haven't been on the second floor for a while, you should know that there are a whole new set of men's women's restroom and a single user restroom, which makes the second floor much more pleasant. And also it's just nice to have those. And the lockers are best. There's still some lockers back here, so. Okay, is there anything else you think we should know before we sign off? No, besides the fact that we are, we're revamping now that we're on the second floor and we have very exciting staff that is looking forward to helping students be successful in their journey here. Alright, thanks so much for going live with us. And I'm looking forward to sharing more of what you do in the future. Alright, let me end this.