Academic Resource Center Records

Collection

Call Number: UA160

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Scope and Contents

This collection contains office files, tutor files, and pre-major advising files created by the Academic Resource Center.

Dates

Creation: 1995 -- 2016

Creator

Academic Resource Center (Organization)

Access

University records are closed for 20 years from the date of their creation. Records older than 20 years that do not pertain to student education, staff and faculty employment and Board of Trustees records are open for research. This collection may require review before it is available for use. Please contact DCA for further details.

Conditions Governing Use

Some material in this collection may be protected by copyright and other rights. Please see “Reproductions and Use” on the Digital Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permission to publish. Copyright to all materials created by Tufts University employees in the course of their work is held by the Trustees of Tufts University.

Biographical / Historical

The Academic Resource Center (ARC) has existed since the fall of 1988, and was founded by Nadia Medina. Originally, the Center was affiliated with the Office of Equal Opportunity and was headquartered at 72 Professors Row; by 2000, the Center had dropped this affiliation and moved into the newly-constructed Dowling Hall.

Originally, the ARC primarily served as the coordinator for on-campus tutoring for undergraduates, as well as hosting study skill workshops and formal appointments with tutors; it additionally hosted workshops, and gave advice about major and course selections. Since then, the ARC has grown its offerings by creating programs specifically for time management, hiring tutors and consultants for graduate students, and hosting workshops with the Career Center to help students work on their resumes or cover letters. In the fall of 1999, Medina expanded the program’s writing support by creating the Writing Fellows Program: writing fellows are undergraduate writing tutors assigned to specific courses, who work with the same students through multiple drafts of a writing project, and who receive support from the ARC toward improving their own writing and teaching skills.