The School of Information Technology is committed to the success of our students and has recently initiated several new initiatives to support students. Chief among those initiatives is the establishment of the IT Student Learning Center which opened at the beginning of fall semester. Daniel Freburg, director of the IT Student Learning Center, states, “The mission of the IT Learning Center is to provide support that enables student success in IT courses.”
The center is open and staffed Monday through Friday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon. It is staffed by Freburg and 12 part-time graduate teaching assistants. Study assistance is especially focused on core foundational courses that teach skills and concepts upon which later courses build. Freburg also conducts exam preparation workshops and post-exam review sessions for core programming courses. “The learning center is going to be a game changer for our students,” said Dr. Traci Carte, director of the School of Information Technology, “Having access to free tutoring to help break though when one hits a barrier in coding can mean the difference between passing and failing.”
Three-fourths of the way through the semester, the center has conducted nearly 1,100 walk-in sessions, and exam preparation workshops have been attended by 20% of students enrolled in core programming courses.
