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  Improving Student Learning Skills     From Access To Success     NADE Self Evaluation Guides   Starting A Learning Assistance Center  


Editors: Frank Christ, Rick Sheets, Karen Smith

Preface: Mike O'Hear

©2000, softcover, 117 pages

ISBN 0-943202-72-8

Price = $23.95

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Starting A Learning Assistance Center

Conversations with CRLA members who have been there and done that!

Contents

Question #1:
What Is a Learning Assistance Center?

  • A conversation with Gwyn Enright

Question #2:
How Can I Develop My Professionalism in Learning Assistance?

  • A conversation with Karen Smith

Question #3:
How Do I Answer Faculty Members or Administrators When
They Ask Why We Have the LAC on Our Campus?

  • A Conversation with Elaine Burns

Question #4:
Who Are the Significant Individuals, Units, and Departments
That May Support a Campus Learning Assistance Center?

  • A Conversation with Frank Torres

Question #5:
How Do I Support Different Expectations of Administration,
Departments, Faculty, Students, and Special Units?

  • A Conversation with Sylvia Mioduski

Question #6:
What Is the Role of the LAC With Special Populations?

  • A Conversation with Sylvia Mioduski

Question #7:
What Is the Role of Faculty in the Development and
Operation of LAC Programs and Services?

  • A conversation with Michael F. O'Hear

Question #8:
What Management Tools May be Useful for the
Success of LAC Programs and Services?

  • A conversation with David Gerkin

Question #9:
How Can Technology Enhance the Programs and Services
of the Learning Assistance Center?

  • A conversation with Rick Sheets

Question #10:
How Do I Assess What Programs and Services Are Needed for Our Students?

  • A conversation with Gene Kerstiens

Question #11:
What Kinds of Programs and Services Do LAC's Offer?

  • A Conversation with Martha Maxwell

Question #12:
How Do I Choose and Use Appropriate Instructional Resources for Students?

  • A Conversation with Frank Christ

Question #13:
How Do I Assess the Needs of Individual Students?

  • A Conversation with Reed Mencke

Question #14:
How Are Learning Assistance Centers Staffed and Managed?

  • A conversation with Rick Sheets

Question #15:
How Will the LAC Fit into the Institution's Organizational Structure?

  • A conversation with Gwyn Enright

Question #16:
Where Are LAC Programs and Services Located?

  • A conversation with Gwyn Enright

Question #17:
What Are Some Space, Furnishings, and Equipment
Considerations in the Design of the LAC?

  • A conversation with Karen Smith

Question #18:
How Can LAC Programs and Services be Evaluated?

  • A conversation with David Gerkin

Question #19:
How Do I Develop a Favorable Image for the LAC and
How Do I Publicize the Programs and Services of the LAC?

  • A conversation with Frank L. Christ

Question #20:
Are There Standards for Learning Assistance
Programs and Services?

  • A conversation with Georgine Materniak

Apendix A:
Typical Scenarios of a Learning Assistance
Center Administrator

  • Scenarios by Karen G. Smith & Rick A. Sheets

Apendix B:
Bibliography and Selected Readings


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