Service helps students
get ‘savvy’ about school
April Bamburg
Freelance Reporter
Having problems in math? Need
to study for the GRE? Want to learn
about time management? The Cen
ter for Academic Learning Services
offers various educational resources
to University students, faculty and
graduate teaching fellows.
“Any student can come in and
talk to a staff member about issues
related to their education, like
time management, or even if they
just have this sinking feeling that
things aren’t going the way they
want them to,” said ALS Director
Susan Lesyk.
At the center, students can par
ticipate in workshops, courses for
credit, drop-in math and writing
labs, and receive tutoring in differ
ent subjects. The ALS also offers
preparation courses for standard
ized exams, including the SAT,
Graduate Record Exam, Law
School Admission Test and the
Medical College Admission Test.
Lesyk said about a quarter to a
third of the student body comes to
the center during a school year.
“We do not keep a tally as people
walk in the door, but we do keep
track of the number of people who
sign up for tutoring or individual
conferences and other programs,”
she said.
One of the services the center of
fers is a “Get Savvy” workshop for
students and faculty, which runs
Tuesday through Friday.
For students, the “Get Savvy”
workshops address a number of ar
eas including critical reading, pre
sentations, class discussions, objec
tive tests and essay exams. Students
can also learn about motivation,
stress and time management. Facul
ty workshops focus on classroom
assessment, teaching portfolios and
grant writing. Teachers also discuss
how to facilitate difficult discus
sions, help students with texts and
create course Web sites.
Lesyk said that during the school
year, students can consult a data
base of qualified tutors in subjects
not offered by the center, or take
advantage of drop-in math and writ
ing labs. The labs run Monday
through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. in PLG 72.
The center also offers group tu
toring sessions for math, chemistry,
physics, French and Spanish that
meet twice each week. There is an
$80 fee per course for these group
sessions. For a schedule of group
meetings, check out the Web site at
als.uoregon.edu.
The ALS center also offers some
courses for credit as well as special
programs such as the TRiO Student
Support Services. This program,
which is funded through the depart
ORDINARY LIFE
in Extraordinary Times
November 1 - 30, 2002
Jacobs Gallery - Hult Center for the Performing Arts
Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, opening at the Jacobs
Gallery on November 1 and running through November 30,
2002, revisits China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
by looking at its artifacts: propaganda imagery, posters,
household items, documents, uniforms, school parapherna
iia, ana tne writings ot onairman Mao. I his exhibit, on loan
from the Burke Museum of Natural History in Seattle, is the first of its kind to be mounted in
a museum in the United States. It is an honest and informative examination of the remark
able mobilization of Chinese people that was the Cultural Revolution.
The exhibit will be augmented by a gallery talk, lectures, a video showing, a slide presen
tation, and K-12 teacher workshops. This exhibit is a collaborative effort by the University
of Oregon Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, the University of Oregon Museum of Art,
and the Jacobs Gallery.
CALENDAR OF SUPPLEMENTAL EVENTS
October 21, 2002
Middle/High School Teacher Workshop
UO Collier House (1170 E. 13th Street)
4:00 - 6:00 pm
November 1, 2002
Exhibit Opening
Jacobs Gallery-Hult Center for the Performing Arts
Reception: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Teen Docent Guided Tour: 7:00 pm
November 2, 2002
Gallery Talk
David Davies, Assistant Professor, Dept, of
Anthropology, Hamline University and Co-curator
of the exhibit
Jacobs Gallery-Hult Center for the Performing Arts
1:00 pm
November 7, 2002
Lecture: The Utopian Art of China’s Cultural
Revolution
Professor Richard Kraus, Dept, of Political
Science,
University of Oregon
Knight Library Browsing Room, UO
5:00 pm (pre-lecture reception at 4:30 pm)
November 12, 2002
Lecture: Ethnographies of the Strange:
(Re)collecting Mao in Post-Mao China
Professor Jennifer Hubbert, Dept, of Sociol
ogy and Anthropology, Lewis & Clark
College
Knight Library Browsing Room, UO
5:00 pm (pre-lecture reception at 4:30 pm)
November 15, 2002
Video Showing: In the Heat of the Sun
Opening comments and post-viewing
discussion led by Professor Wendy Larson,
Dept, of East Asian Languages and Litera
tures, University of Oregon
Studio 1-Hult Center for the Performing Arts
7:00 pm
November 24, 2002
Lecture and Slide Presentation: Fading
Images: My Life as a “Reeducated
Youth” (Zhiqing) in My Sketchbooks
(1972-76)
Professor Gu Xiong, Dept, of Fine Arts,
University of British Columbia
Studio 1-Hult Center for the Performing Arts
2:00 pm
All events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact
Lori O’Hollaren at the UO Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at 346-1521.
Adam Amato Emerald
Junior Tammy Louie helps sophomore Scott Jensen with business calculus in
the ALS center, which offers workshops, tutoring and drop-in sessions.
ment of Education, caters to the
University’s non-traditional stu
dents. The program provides class
es in math, writing and critical
thinking, as well as access to per
sonal counseling and academic ad
vising for students who qualify. Eli
gibility is based on income level,
parents’ education and an academ
ic need for support services.
Sarah Adkison, a returning stu
dent in her senior year, is one of
the students in the Student Sup
port Services program. She said
she gets help with academic writ
ing and test taking.
“Academic Learning Services is
like a small college within the larg
er one. I come in and people know
my name, they know what I’m
studying; I’m very comfortable,”
Adkison said. Adkison said if stu
dents have problems with any as
pect of school or if their education
al approach needs improvement,
they need to remember that they
can get help.
“Students just have to wander in,
and we’ll help them,” said Deb
Casey, associate director of the SSS
program. I feel bad when students
come in and say that they wish
they’d found us sooner, because
we’re here to help.”
Academic Learning Services is
not just for students, though. Facul
ty and graduate teaching fellows
can participate in the Teaching Ef
fectiveness Program. The program
assists instructors in evaluating and
improving their teaching.
The center is located in PLC 62
and is open from 8:00 a.m to 5:00
p.m. For more information on the
Center for Academic Learning
Services or any of its programs,
visit www.uoregon.edu/~al or call
346-3226.
April Bamburg is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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during the regular academic year
(6 credit hours undergraduate, 9
credit hours graduate, 5 credit
hours law).
Young said she likes the flexibil
ity of being able to drop or pick up
hours and the convenience of be
ing so close to classes, calling the
Rec center “the best place on
campus to work.”
Seeing people all the time
makes the position fun for Young,
even when the counter gets
“mobbed” during busy morning
hours and physical education
classes, she said.
Rhythmically stamping the cur
rent date on pink paper circulation
reminders, Knight Library employ
ee Nelson Gonzalves-Shinnick is
just getting into the swing of things
with new classes on a new campus.
As a sophomore transfer student,
he said he reads for leisure between
flexible shifts and plans to save
money from each paycheck.
Besides having an adjustable
schedule and being able to work
across the street from his apart
ment, Gonzalves-Shinnick said he
enjoys the constant interaction
with others.
“People are fun and interest
ing,” he said, “especially when
you’re meeting people from differ
ent countries.”
Though he has worked in li
brary systems for more than two
years, experience wasn’t Gonza
lves-Shinnick’s only advantage
when applying for a job at Knight
Library. He made his point — in
reference to how difficult it was to
find a job — unaffectedly.
“If you have your crap together,
and you do what you can ahead of
time, you can beat the slackers,”
he said.
Caron Alarab is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.