The Department of Developmental Studies offers a number of services through the Center for Learning Enhancement, including Supplemental Instruction, Walk-In Peer Tutoring, and academic success workshops.
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.
- Walk-In Peer Tutoring
- Trained paraprofessional peer educators provide individual and small group assistance with how to learn content for mathematics, natural sciences, and various Liberal Studies courses.
- Noncredit Workshops
- These workshops, led by trained peer educators, address a variety of study strategies and other academic success topics in small group settings.
- Educational Advisement
- Provides students with both curricular and educational advisement.
- Freshman Year Experience
- A program of one-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.
