Profs-in-Spaces

This month, First Year Experience Coordinator Daniella Gentile has been visiting our “profs-in-spaces,” to see what types of interactions with students they’ve come across. The idea behind profs in spaces is to help connect students to professors outside of the classroom. Profs have embedded themselves in first year residences, the Collegia, and the Chapman Learning Commons, offering a range of events and points of contact for students. Neil Armitage has been holding “ImProf Office Hours” in the Chapman Learning Commons to help promote the idea of students actually going to office hours, by holding his in the space. Neil has reported that although students have been hesitant at first, they have gradually opened up over the term. Also, Celeste Leander held a wildly popular baking night in the Collegia, simply as a way for students to have fun with a faculty member and perhaps see them as a little less daunting. Folks with questions about these initiatives should contact Daniella.

Mid-Term Crunch

Gettin busy at the CLC desk pic.twitter.com/uz92sh2ApB

— Nick Thornton (@unboringlearn) September 6, 2016

The Chapman Learning Commons (and no doubt other service points) have been experiencing high volumes of students with questions about learning supports as mid-terms and paper season has begun in earnest. Last minute emergency printing has been popular with support from the Chapman Learning Commons Assistants, who have rescued more than a few students needing papers printed right before they’re class. For context, roughly 250,000 pages are printed in the Learning Commons every month.

Also, with mid-terms brings academic coaching and tutoring. The Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication has been in full swing and is offering free drop-in support for students’ writing projects. You can check out their website here for more details.

AMS Tutoring, Science Peer Academic Coaching, and Kin Academic Coaching have also been busy, helping students create their action plans for studying and mid-term prep. All of these services run Monday to Friday on level 3 of Irving K Barber Learning Centre.