academic support services
Academic Support Services
Discover the other services available to help you with your academic studies and support you during your studies at Taylor.
Academic Advising
Academic Advising
Academic advising is an interactive process in which the advisor helps the student set and achieve academic goals and make responsible decisions. Academic advisors offer one-on-one support in areas such as course selection, choice of major, college transition issues, careers or graduate study, and referral to other support services. Academic advising at Taylor is offered in a two-tiered approach: students are assigned a major advisor from their department as well as a general advisor who provides assistance with Foundational Core requirements.
IT Support
Help Desk & Information Technology Support
Everyone in the IT department plays a role in in supporting students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni, and guests of the University. The heart of support operations is based at the Helpdesk in Zondervan Library, where Information Technology staff from Academic Technology and User Services are especially focused on providing timely and appropriate solutions in order to help our clients understand and use Taylor's technological resources to their fullest.
- New Student Information
- myTAYLOR: One stop for all tech resources
- Reset Taylor Password
- Recommendations for Buying a Personal Computer
- Helpdesk: Search tech-related FAQs or submit helpdesk tickets
With a Taylor login, myTAYLOR also provides additional information and resources for IT support, such as information on discounts, detailed information about hardware and software recommendations, and tools to help with personal technology.
Academic Enrichment Center
Academic Enrichment Center
Welcome to the Academic Enrichment Center (AEC). Our goal is to help any student succeed academically and holistically while at Taylor and beyond. We provide a variety of services and support to help students, including:
- Academic skills such as preparing for tests, note taking, and time management
- Support services/accommodations to help students with any disability or chronic illness need
- Course-specific tutoring through our peer tutor program
- Writing support through the Writing Center
- Transitional support and orientation to college through First-Year Experience
The AEC faculty and staff are trained professionals who care deeply about students and helping them develop holistically into life-long learners. We invite all students to seek us out to use our resources for any type of academic help and support they may need.
Writing Center
Writing Center
The Writing Center provides peer tutoring in writing from trained writing tutors who work with student writers of all skill levels. Tutors engage with student writers in one-on-one writing discussions, ranging from generating ideas to negotiating editing difficulties. Although we discuss writing, we focus on writers.
Conversing over writing engages the writer in a powerful learning experience, builds up writing skills, improves writing processes, and clarifies the writer’s ideas. Our ultimate goal is to help students become confident and reflective writers. Additionally, tutors provide English language support for non-native speakers, including writing tutoring and assistance with other English language issues.
The Writing Center can help students with the following areas: Figuring out what to write, Making points stronger, Writing an introduction, Adding length to a paper, Crafting a thesis statement, Organizing main points, Improving the flow of a paper, Improving sentence structures, and Quoting, paraphrasing and citing