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Resource Spotlight: Math Study Skills for Success

The Academic Success Center has a new video resource: “Math Study Skills for Success: Tips and Strategies for Mastering Your Math Courses.” This short video (under seven minutes) is the […]

The PG Library:  It’s Worth an Indiana Jones Sequel!

If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Susquehanna Jones was an amateur bibliographer, and had traveled the world searching for the best repositories of knowledge. Yet the […]

Resource Spotlight: Study Skills for Success

The Academic Success Center has a new video resource: “Study Skills for Success: Tips and Strategies for Mastering Your Courses.” This short video (under 10 minutes) is the first in […]

“Hmm … what the heck is the subject of Errol’s blog this time?  That’s weird – it has no title!”   Yup, my point exactly:  we need that so-important item […]

Harnessing the Power of Mindset

As a new year begins, many people make new year’s resolutions. Whether you resolve to eat better, move more, or learn a new skill, having a “can do” mindset can […]

Spellcheck and Grammar Check: Evil Writing Superstars – Their Luster Needs to Fade!

Timmy Whitherspoon, university student and aspiring business entrepreneur, had in front of him an assignment to write his legacy essay for an advertising class (the assignment: create a product, then […]

Prepping Students for the Holidays

Happy Thanksgiving weekend, everyone! This is Amy Sexton with the Academic Success Center. With the holiday season officially here, we thought faculty, staff, and instructors might find the following tips […]

A Return to Writing

Hi there! My name is Paige Erickson, and I’m a faculty member from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Welcome to the Academic Success Center Blogcast. In this episode, […]

An Important Must for any Writer:  That Second-Coolest Paragraph, the Concluding Paragraph!

The lemmings of writing fall into the abyss of confusion and “Huh?” by the reader.  These are the essays, the columns, the articles that read as if a knife suddenly […]