The Southampton Graduate Campus Learning and Writing Center helps students realize their full academic potential through its

Placement Testing

In order to identify first-year entering students who are underprepared, the Learning and Writing Center administers placement tests to all incoming first-year students whose scores are below 530 on the verbal SAT and 480 on the math SAT or whose high school GPA's are below 85. On the basis of the results of these tests, students may be placed in developmental English or math classes.

Developmental Program

The developmental program offers courses specifically designed to strengthen basic skills in reading, writing, and math. These developmental courses are credit bearing. The number of credits in developmental courses a student may apply toward the graduation requirement is limited to eighteen unless a petition is filed and approved by the Academic Standards Committee and the Dean for Academic Affairs.

Tutoring Services

The Writing Center is staffed by graduate students in our MFA program in Writing. Students who need help in any area of writing from instruction in grammar and composition to writing term papers are encouraged to use the Center.

The Learning and Writing Center offers peer tutoring in many other academic areas including but not limited to math, chemistry, biology, the social sciences, economics, and professional tutoring in English as a Second Language (E.S.L.). All tutorial services are available to all students at no additional fee.

Staff

• Anne Hickey Algieri, B.A., M.A., M. Phil., Director
• Douglas Cassidy, B.A., M.S. Ed., Campus Coordinator of Placement Testing
• Sharon Frank, Center Assistant and Campus Coordinator of Tutoring