To the Editor:
There are so many items that need correcting in the Tuesday, Oct. 3 article on the Academic Skills Center ("Skills Center helps students learn") that it's hard to know where to begin. Here are the correct facts:
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The ASC is for all students, not just those who may be having difficulty with their academics. For example, many students sign up for tutors or attend our learning strategies workshops to insure their learning the course material and receiving top grades.
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The Hewlett grant has allowed the ASC in collaboration with Instructional Services to produce, not purchase, a series of videotapes that discuss the ways by which Dartmouth students can achieve academic success.
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Students use the resources of the ASC through a wide variety of services and programs, most of which do not begin with having a meeting with Gail Zimmerman or myself.
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Besides individual tutors, study groups provide another opportunity for students to learn course material in a collaborative manner. The study groups are offered every term, independent of the individual tutors.
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[The reported] information about accommodations for students with disabilities may have come from a generic brochure. In practice, tape recorders are provided to students with a variety of physical disabilities; dyslexic students do not request them. Typists and laptops are provided for hearing-impaired students; vision-impaired students do not request them (though they would be provided on request). Notetakers can be arranged for all disabilities, not just hearing-impaired students.
We are pleased to have the front page publicity and encourage any and all students to take advantage of the many valuable academic enrichment resources that are available at the Academic Skills Center, 301 Collis Center.
