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Students go to the Student Learning Center (SLC) when they need additional support in areas such as math, writing, science, history, psychology, and many more courses.

The SLC is the campus wide centralized tutoring hub.

Elisabeth Meyer Gonzalez, the Assistant Director of the SLC at SUNY Brockport, said, “Sometimes students should expect one on one individual appointments, other times it will be small group tutoring where they can expect other students from their classes.”

Gonzalez said that the SLC helps students with strategies such as study skills, time management, how to be a better note taker, and how to read their textbooks effectively.

“When students come to the SLC, they don’t only find grownups. They will mostly find student tutors who were hired based on faculty recommendation,” said Gonzalez. “Tutors also work with each other. Graduate students make appointments with each other for their writing. It’s the smart kids who know when they need help. Everyone needs help sometimes.”

The faculty at the SLC is always there to help students when they are feeling stressed about doing badly. “Someone is always on hand to lend support,” said Gonzalez.

Tutors make sure that the students make progress. They are thought to do a little teaching, and then have students teach something back to them so the students get the chance to demonstrate what they learned. Tutors test the students and help them make flash cards.

In terms of professionalism, the SLC has a very strict cancellation policy. Habitually missing appointments is not acceptable. (To learn more about the cancellation policy, click on the following: SLC Appointment Policy)

Students get the opportunity to work with really amazing students who are good influences.

Gonzalez advises incoming students, “As soon as they began to struggle in a class, check on their own behaviors, and come in and get help before the problem snowballs. Don’t be afraid or embarrassed to get help because the students who do come in are actually very conscientious and very smart.”

If you ever find your way to Cooper Hall, where the SLC at SUNY Brockport is located, be sure to stop in as Director Michael Dentino, Program Secretary Diana Pask, or Gonzalez will be more than happy to help you.