By HAYLEE BATES, Student Reporter
Northwestern offers students the opportunity to seek academic help from tutors without an additional cost.
The Academic Success Center, located in the Industrial Education building Rm. 113, has tutors on staff to help provide students with assistance in a number of different subject areas, including composition one, composition two, chemistry, algebra, Spanish, statistics and a number of additional subjects.
“I have 11 students on staff and nine of them are tutors,” said Matthew Barnes, director of the Academic Success Center. “We tutor pretty much any subject you can image.”
If students want to utilize a tutor, they can make an appointment for a specific time and date on the Academic Success Center’s website at www.nwosu.edu/schedule-an-appointment. Students can find the list of tutors, their scheduled hours and their contact information, if they need to contact them separately. Students can also drop by the Academic Success Center and receive help if a tutor is available at that time.
“If a student comes in and they work with one tutor that doesn’t quite fit what they need, we can set them up with a different tutor because I have multiple tutors in each subject,” Barnes said. “I am also the tenth tutor because I tutor in English and business.”
The Academic Success Center offers other services, including two computer labs, free printing and a testing facility.
“We also have a place for students just to come that’s quiet and a place where they can study individually or in groups,” Barnes said. “We have a large room where we can put very large groups or even classes. We just need to know in advance, so I can get that room set up for them.”
The Academic Success Center offers students a variety of different testing options, including Miller Analogies Test (MAT), Accuplacer Placement Test, the Residual ACT, Language Testing International (LTI) and College Level Examination Program (CLEP).
“CLEP is very important because we don’t have a lot of students that know about it,” Barnes said. “It is a great way to get credits for classes without actually having to take the class, so that’s something that we really want students to check into.”
The tutoring and assistance from the Academic Success Center is not only for undergraduate students. Graduate students can also receive help on papers and coursework for their classes.
“I do a lot of grad work with papers, so if someone at the grad level needs a paper edited, I will help them for the most part,” Barnes said. “For the Nursing Department, for instance, I will be working with the DNP program that we’re just getting ready to start.”
For more information about the Academic Success Center, students can visit www.nwosu.edu/academic-success-center or contact Matthew Barnes at mhbarnes@nwosu.edu.