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Academic Support

The Department of Developmental Studies offers a number of services through the Center for Learning Enhancement and its College Success and Retention programs to help students prepare, advance, and excel.

See a list of those academic support services below. For information about peer educator and peer advisor positions, see our Employment section.

Supplemental Instruction (SI): SI provides small-group study/review sessions for sections of courses with difficult content or high levels of failure and withdrawal rates. Peer leaders guide students on how to learn course content.
Noncredit Workshops: These workshops, led by trained peer educators, address a variety of study strategies and other academic success topics in small group settings.
Walk-In Tutoring: Walk-in individual and group tutoring provides peer assistance for a wide range of disciplines and courses.
Educational Advisement: Provides students with both curricular and educational advisement.
Freshman Year Experience: A program of 1-credit courses designed to help incoming Freshman adjust to college classes and study.

First-Year Seminars: Seminars to enhance the student experience and academic success at IUP
Linked Courses Program: Coordinates clusters of courses designed to form a learning community of students for whom course content may be linked by theme.
Act 101 Program: Comprehensive first year experience to students who qualify for the Pennsylvania State Act 101 Program.
Wiley Partnership Program: The R. Benjamin Wiley Partnership Program is a multi-year outreach program that prepares students from urban high schools in Pennsylvania to attend college.
Connections: Peer Tutoring Request

Academic Support
Pratt Hall, Room 202/203
201 Pratt Drive
Indiana, PA 15705
Phone: 724-357-2729
Fax: 724-357-6940
peer-assistance@iup.edu

Office Hours
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.