Self Care
Sleep, health, personal space
Academic Support
Rinella Learning Center houses a multitude of Academic Support services. Our Academic Support services are designed to enhance student engagement in the learning process, encourage higher levels of academic performance, further critical thinking skills, and promote student self-authorship in the classroom. We aim to help students assess existing learning strategies and implement new ones.
Improve Your Understanding
Our content-based academic support services are meant to help you attain mastery over specific course content.
Improve Your Strategy
Our skills-based academic services aim to help you cultivate skills that will enable you to excel across a variety of different courses and subject areas.
Individual Academic Counseling Sessions
In Academic Counseling, students meet with a Learning Specialist to evaluate their learning goals and to develop a plan for action. Goals could include developing better study strategies, improving performance, or discussing ideas for optimizing their educational experience.
Students who are interested in meeting with a Learning Specialist should contact the Rinella Learning Center's main line at 513-529-8741. Meetings are available most times during the semester.
Time Management
Class attendance, tardiness, study time, budgeting time for assignments, keeping an organizer or planner
Organization
Notes, course material, tracking assignments, and due dates
Study Skills
Note-taking, reading completion, reading comprehension, reviewing material, study aids
Test Taking
Developing exam preparation materials, self-testing
Motivation and Attitude
Feeling overwhelmed or frustrated, perfectionism
Online Resources
Rinella Learning Center offers a number of self-help resources for students who need advice on developing particular academic skills. In this section, you can find links to online workshops and guidebooks that offer specific advice on a number of academic skills that students often need help with. Please note that the content from our online workshops and guidebooks is intended for personal use only. Any individuals or institutions who wish to use any material from these resources beyond personal use should ask permission by inquiring through our main telephone line, 513-529-8741.
