UA Graduate Catalog 2003-05

CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is an integral part of the University's plan for academic excellence. The mission of the CTL is to enhance learning through the design and delivery of academic support services. CTL services are designed to help students upgrade study strategies and reading proficiencies, succeed in specific University courses - especially quantitative ones - and compete successfully for admission to graduate and professional schools. The CTL maintains a dual service orientation through the provision of opportunities to advance learning strategies for academically gifted students and to enhance learning strategies for students who need to strengthen their academic skills.

Academic support programs are offered through individual tutoring and consultation, a multimedia resource center, curricular courses, structured review programs, supplemental instruction, and informal help sessions. The CTL also serves the entire University community through its educational programming on CTL-TV, a closed-circuit broadcast available 24 hours a day on campus channel 29. Two TRIO programs funded through the U.S. Department of Education also operate in the CTL. Student Support Services provides academic assistance and counseling to 200 first-generation, income-eligible, and disabled students. The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program prepares first-generation and traditionally underrepresented students for successful entry into and completion of doctoral degree programs. Student involvement in these units is criterion-based. GEAR UP is an early academic intervention partnership program designed to help students improve academic performance, decrease school attrition, increase high-school graduation rates, and increase enrollment in postsecondary education. JUMP (Juvenile Mentoring Program), funded through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, is the most recent program addition in the Center for Teaching and Learning. JUMP connects underserved students in Holt High School with adults, ages 19 years and older, in an innovative mentoring program. JUMP is designed to improve students' academic successes and promote constructive decision-making skills.

For further information, contact the Center for Teaching and Learning, 101 Osband Hall, Box 870304, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0304; telephone (205) 348-5175; or via the Internet at http://www.ctl.ua.edu/.

OFFICE OF DISABILITY SERVICES

The Office of Disability Services (ODS) is the central contact point for University students with disabilities. The goal of ODS is to ensure that University programs and services are accessible to qualified students with disabilities. ODS works to provide individualized academic accommodations and support services, where necessary, while promoting student responsibility and self-advocacy. It is the student's responsibility to make known a need for academic accommodations and services by providing documentation of his or her disability to ODS and by formally requesting accommodations. For more information, contact ODS at (205) 348-4285 (voice) or (205) 348-3081 (TTY); or write the Office of Disability Services at Box 870185, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0304. ODS is located at 220 Research Drive.