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Your learning style, schedule and academic needs are yours alone, and they're constantly changing. But our academic service options are flexible enough to keep pace.

Did you know that students who regularly participate in Supplemental Instruction (SI) sessions generally earn higher course grades and withdraw less often than non-SI participants.

No matter how talented you are, sooner or later you're going to have questions. Like how to solve a pesky equation, take notes or better focus in class. The office of Academic Success helps traditional undergraduate, graduate, and adult students to make the most of their learning experiences at Capital University.

At Academic Success we have one goal: to help you succeed. We’ll give you the services you need to shine in the classroom, in every subject and at every level.
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Peer Tutoring

Academic Coaching

Supplemental Instruction

Writing Center

Peer Tutoring

Sometimes it’s easier to relate to another student. Academic Success has trained Peer Tutors who were top students in the courses they tutor. They can help you:

Get a stronger grasp of subject-area concepts

Review materials

Prepare for exams

Improve your writing

Learn more about peer tutoring options.

Academic Coaching

College requires different skills than high school. You have to be a better time-manager, study more effectively and think in new ways.

Academic Coaching provides individualized assistance to students in an effort to help them enhance their existing study habits and develop more effective study strategies and behaviors.

Our Academic Coaches can help you with:

Time management

Note taking

Textbook reading and comprehension

Exam preparation and test-taking

Test anxiety

Supplemental Instruction

Supplemental Instruction (SI) is an academic support program aimed at historically challenging courses and is designed to increase student performance and retention. SI provides regularly scheduled, out-of-class peer-facilitated study and review sessions facilitated by trained SI Leaders.

SI assistance is open to all students enrolled in the course regardless of ability. SI sessions integrate “how to learn” with “what to learn,” meaning that the focus is on discovering how to apply appropriate study strategies in addition to reviewing content material. Students who regularly participate in SI sessions generally earn higher course grades and withdraw less often than non-SI participants.

The Academic Success Writing Center employs peer Writing Consultants (and one professional staff member) to provide writing consultations with students to assist them throughout all phases of the writing process for all writing assignments in all courses. Writing Consultants assist students with brainstorming, creating a thesis, developing and organizing their ideas, drafting, and revising.

Writing Center Goals:

To help students become more confident and informed readers and editors of their own writing

To help students develop strategies for identifying and addressing areas for improvement in their writing

To guide students in utilizing the writing process to better develop their writing