Carnegie Mellon

Academic and Support Resources

Academic Counseling

Academic Counseling is an assistance program that helps students acquire more effective and efficient study skills. Our sessions center around memory, lecture note-taking, test taking, stress management, textbook reading and time management. Students can attend workshops or request individual sessions.

Academic Development

Academic Development is the place to go for help with your academic work. We offer everything from academic counseling in study skills to peer tutoring as well as supplemental instruction for select courses. Our services are designed to help both students who are having academic difficulties and those who just want to improve their performance. To learn more about our services or to locate current schedule information, visit our website at: www.cmu.edu/academic-development. We offer the following:

Peer Tutoring

We offer subject-specific tutoring geared primarily [but not exclusively] towards large introductory math, science, engineering and writing courses. This service is offered in both a walk-in and one-on-one format.

Supplemental Instruction

Supplemental Instruction offers review sessions for traditionally difficult courses. Sessions are offered two times each week for targeted courses and are conducted by students who have previously done well in the course. Attendance is voluntary.

Carnegie Mellon Advising Resource Center [CMARC]

The Carnegie Mellon Advising Resource Center [CMARC] is an advising and information center that assists students and connects them to appropriate communities, services and opportunities by providing academic planning and one-on-one counsel. Founded as the Carnegie Mellon Action Project [CMAP], CMARC has an additional commitment to support underrepresented ethnic minority students in a setting where students' differences and talents are guided, appreciated and reinforced.

Intercultural Communication Center

Bridging Language and Culture Gaps

Warner Hall 308

www.cmu.edu/icc

eslhelp@andrew.cmu.edu

412-268-4979

The Intercultural Communication Center is a support service offering non-credit classes, workshops, and individual appointments which are designed to equip nonnative English speakers [international students as well as students who attended high school in the U.S.] with the skills needed to succeed in academic programs at Carnegie Mellon. In addition to developing academic literacy skills such as speaking, reading and writing, students can learn more about the culture and customs of the U.S. classroom.

Available programs:

Writing Clinic: helps students with their academic writing assignments--this includes support with reading and interpreting source texts

Seminars and Workshops: such as Presentation Skills, Citing Sources, Improving Scientific Writing, and Reading Strategies

Tutoring: individual appointments address specific areas such as speaking, listening, grammar, and academic fluency

Placement Interviews: evaluate spoken language so that we can suggest appropriate ICC work and give students useful feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of their communication skills

The ITA Test: a mandatory screening test for any nonnative English speaker [graduate or undergraduate] who plans to work as a teaching assistant

Students with Disabilities

Qualified individuals are entitled to reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA]. Carnegie Mellon takes great efforts to provide physical and programmatic campus access to everyone. Individuals with documented disabilities may be eligible to receive services & accommodations from Carnegie Mellon's Equal Opportunity Services Office [EOS].

To access services/accommodations, individuals must first refer themselves to the EOS office and provide adequate documentation of the disability. The first step in this process is to complete a Voluntary Self- Disclosure of Disability Form and contact the Manager of Disability Resources to set up an appointment. Students may identify themselves as having a disability at any time.

Accommodations are determined on a case-by-case basis. All information will be considered confidential and only released to appropriate personnel on a need to know basis. For more information on services to students with disabilities contact Larry Powell at lpowell@andrew.cmu.edu or by phone 412-268-2013 or e-mail EOS@andrew.cmu.edu. You can also visit http://hr.web.cmu.edu/dsrg/index.htm for more information.

Carnegie Mellon Alumni

Carnegie Mellon alumni volunteers across the country are available to answer your questions. They would love to hear from you! Visit the alumni website at alumni.cmu.edu/each_other/get_connected/chapters.html or call the Office of Alumni Relations at 800-226-8258 to find contact information for an alumnus close to you.

Student Alumni Relations Council

The Student Alumni Relations Council [SARC] provides a diverse group of student representatives who act as a link between the Carnegie Mellon Alumni Association and today's students. Since its inception on campus in 1976, SARC members have worked to facilitate exciting, interactive programming between students and alumni and to strengthen students' ties to Carnegie Mellon by promoting school spirit, community activism and alumni involvement. These programs foster a sense of identity among students, create networking opportunities, and give alumni and students the chance to share their experiences and learn from one another. For more information about SARC and its programs, please e-mail sarc@andrew.cmu.edu or call the Office of Alumni Relations at 800-226-8258 or 412-268-2060. We look forward to hearing from you!

University Library System

Discover the vast number of resources that the University Libraries have to offer by going to http://www.library.cmu.edu. You will find lots of news and information about how to do research at Carnegie Mellon, although you will not be able to access some of the online databases until you get your computing account when you arrive on campus.

Carnegie Mellon has several libraries available to its students. Our main library, Hunt, can be located on the campus map on the back cover of this booklet. The Engineering and Science Library is located in Wean Hall, while the Mellon Institute can be found just off-campus. Tours of the Hunt and Engineering and Science libraries will be offered during Orientation.