Learning Center

Judith Rockway, Director

Library Building, room L/G 18

Phone: 718.260.5874

website: www.citytech.cuny.edu/alc/

email: jrockway@citytech.cuny.edu

The Learning Center offers City Tech students an array of educational support services from tutorial assistance and the use of computers to a stimulating atmosphere for study and problem-solving in the company of other students with similar concerns. Typically, more than 6,000 students use Learning Center services each semester.

The Learning Center, located in the Library Building G-18, supplies tutors at specified hours for accounting, law and paralegal studies, hospitality management accounting, anatomy and physiology, biological sciences, bioinformatics, ESOL, chemistry, computer systems, math, physics, reading and writing. Tutors in computer-assisted drafting and design, architectural, civil, construction, electrical, electromechanical, computer engineering, environmental control, mechanical engineering, and telecommunications technologies are on duty at selected times.

Students who wish to gain or improve skills in Microsoft Word and Excel may do so in the Learning Center at their own pace with the assistance of a super-tutor. Those candidates who pass the final test in the program are given a certificate of completion.

The Learning Center network is equipped with over 180 pc-compatible workstations, 21 Mac stations, 4 laptops for student/tutor use, a SmartBoard and various printers and scanners. Software supportive of specific academic courses has been installed for student use. Windows applications such as Microsoft Office, the anatomy and physiology program ADAM, chemistry software, and AUTOCAD are also available on some stations.

Internet access is available on selected computers for research related to coursework. For the Mac stations, the Learning Center has a varied selection of graphics software supportive of the communication design curricula.

The print management system allows students to print up to 30 pages per day. Software and handouts include lessons, drills and tests in basic literacy skills, reading, writing, math, algebra and geometry. An expanding collection of videotapes and

CDs for accounting, math, writing, reading, dental hygiene and nursing can be viewed in private video rooms within the center.

Students in the health career departments are supported with a collection of textbooks, handouts, specimens, bones, microscopes, filmstrips, videos, slide/audio modules, stations for restorative dentistry students to create model teeth and computer programs to review and reinforce coursework in the health curricula. Nursing students will benefit from NCLEX test-practice software.

City Tech students may independently drop in for help or be referred to the Learning Center by an instructor or counselor. Hours of service for each semester are posted at the Learning Center. Students must present their currently validated City Tech/CUNY card to gain access the Learning Center.