Learning Center Content

Embedded tutoring and group sessions boost student success in higher education. Tutors attend classes and offer out-of-class support, often with faculty involvement. Research supports their efficacy in improving grades and persistence. Implementation challenges include faculty buy-in, tutor recruitment, and student participation. Strategies to overcome these include starting with receptive faculty, offering incentives, using faculty recommendations for tutors, and enhancing student engagement. Success comes from starting small, demonstrating results, and expanding gradually while adapting to institutional needs.

Learning centers often struggle to engage students who need the help most. This month's LCU walks through the basic three-stop process for this: (1) Identifying target students (e.g. enrolled in high DFW course), (2) increasing engagement in that segment, and (3) reporting on success to demonstrate your impact to leadership. This article highlights some of the key ways you can approach each step.

Learning center professionals are expected to be data scientists, on top of all of your other duties. This article covers five useful Excel tips, from navigating efficiently to the powerful SUMIFS to resizing columns, that will come in handy in your reporting processes.

In this post, we walk through an outline of an end of year report for learning centers and explain our thinking on each section. The key to these reports is trying to capture the impact you are having in a clear and simple way. Start high level with a summary, share key context for your org, and get into usage data broken down to key student groups, classes, and departments.

We held a moderated discussion with nine Penji partners to discuss successes, failures, and top strategies for expanding funding. Three themes came out: centralized funding, collaborative funding, and efficient spending of existing resources. I think you’ll find some useful tips and ideas in this post!