Academic Consultation
Academic Consultation is available for any student. Through individually tailored sessions, an Academic Consultant will assist students with developing and improving the skills to be successful in college.
Tutoring Services
Drop-in peer tutoring is available for many courses offered at Alfred University at no additional cost. For courses not specifically supported through tutoring, students can seek help from The Center for Academic Success’s Academic Consultants.
Writing Center
The Writing Center provides free writing and oral communication assistance to all Alfred University students, faculty, and staff. Student consultants represent a wide range of academic disciplines and are trained to deal with all kinds of writing and speaking tasks. Consultants can assist with discovering ideas, organizing information, strengthening arguments, and revising written work, presentations, visual aids and technical documents.
Disability Services
The Center for Academic Success coordinates academic and housing accommodations, provides support services, consultation, and advocacy for students with learning, physical, and/or psychological disabilities. Services are intended to maximize independence and encourage the integration of students with disabilities into all areas of college life.
Assurance of equal educational opportunities rests upon legal foundations established by federal law, specifically Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. By federal law, a person with a disability is a person who:
- Has a physical or mental impairment;
- has a record of such impairment; or
- is regarded as having such an impairment that it substantially limits one or more major life activities such as self-care, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, or learning.
In order to determine whether an individual is entitled to protections and services under the law, The Center for Academic Success requires documentation that verifies that the individual has a disability and explains how the disability impacts the student.
Recent documentation provided by a properly credentialed professional should include a diagnostic statement identifying the disability, the diagnostic methodology used, as well as a description of the current functional limitations and how they can be accommodated. This allows The Center Academic Success staff to appropriately determine eligibility and reasonable accommodations.
Center for Academic Success Website
Mailing Address:
Center for Academic Success
Herrick Library
Alfred University
1 Saxon Drive
Alfred NY 14802
Phone: 607-871-2148
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