In the past two decades, tutoring services have become an integral part of nearly every program at California's community colleges. The purposes of tutoring services are to provide individual attention to students in academic difficulty, training and assistance in developing effective study skills, assistance and support to special groups of…

Through awareness of the needs of non-traditional students and careful tutor training, the staff of Virginia's New River Community College's (NRCC's) writing center assist students with both writing-related tasks and integration into academic life. Describes how NRCC's writing center aids its students and suggests techniques that should be used to…

Examines two studies: one that shows that competent to highly competent writers find writing centers beneficial, and the other that shows that faculty continue to think of writing centers as suited to remedial students and surface level corrections. Attempts to glean from these studies important information that could act as a corrective to all…

This paper explains the effectiveness of distance teaching in Sri Lanka and shows the importance of face-to-face components in distance learning to meet the needs of students and resources. Distance education in the Third World and the current status of distance education at the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) are described, and the…

This article addresses the ethical issues concerned with providing special support services for college students with disabilities, based on experiences in establishing a support program at Anglia Polytechnic University in England. Issues include funding support, the assistant's role in providing tutorial services, possibly unfair advantages…

The head of the writing center at Rollins College, in an attempt to develop a metaphor for the writing center turned to peer writing consultants. Their suggested metaphors structure an essay about what a writing center should be: a community of consultants and clients working together, respectful of diversity, originality, tolerant of differences.…

To meet the needs of changing student populations, respond to the results of current research, and justify their continued existence financially, writing centers must expand their services to accommodate the diverse needs of various academic, business, and civic members of their surrounding communities. Besides offering peer tutoring and…

Programs providing academic support services in colleges and universities and the evaluation of these services are reviewed. Attention is also directed to the need for opportunities in higher education for students with marginal high school academic records, and responses to the need by institutions of higher education. It is suggested that there…

California's Statewide Longitudinal Study (SLS) of community college students reveals that student services are needed and appear to be effective. Evidence supporting this contention were obtained from a special run of data from third-year interviews with 4,120 of the original sample of 6,490 students. These data indicate that: (1) the level of…