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About the Learning Centers

Get to know the Learning Centers and the many ways we support student success.

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About the Learning Centers

A Leader in Learning

The Learning Centers at Rutgers University are among the best in the country, recognized for their state-of-the-art facilities and leading-edge research in areas including instructional strategies, learner-centered spaces, and peer leader development and success.

Our Mission

The Learning Centers (LCs) provide centralized academic support services to develop students’ skills, strategies, and behaviors that lead to academic persistence and lasting success. Through in-class services such as the Learning Assistant Program and academic presentations, and co-curricular services including peer-led tutoring, academic coaching, study groups, workshops, and study spaces, we meet a variety of student needs.

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Our Vision

Our programs serve a diverse population of students through cocurricular and in-class support, formal instruction, and professional development. Capitalizing on the success of peer-led practices, we craft student-centered services that instill leadership and strengthen the professional growth of our student employees. Our active learning spaces create a community of learners by stimulating collaboration among peers, faculty, and staff.

Professional staff members mentor student employees, offer instruction in pedagogy and academic skills, and provide administrative infrastructure. To inform decision-making and develop new initiatives, we continually assess our programs and collaborate with university partners as well as participate in national and local academic support communities and contribute to educational research.

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Our Values

Effective learning is:

  • Active and Collaborative: Our approach to learning ensures students engage in inquiry, discussion, and tasks that pique curiosity and invite discovery. Students arrive, collectively and individually, at a more sophisticated understanding when they engage with one another in sense-making by utilizing ideas, strategies, and concepts contributed by each person.
  • Self-Directed: We teach students critical thinking and metacognitive skills to develop expertise, enabling them to contribute to academic discourse and complete academic tasks independently.
  • Transformative: We prepare students and staff for leadership, as well as continual academic and professional growth.

Our practices are:

  • Inclusive: We value all identities, perspectives, and backgrounds and are dedicated to integrating multiple voices and experiences into every aspect of our operations.
  • Learner-Centered: Students’ experiences, resources, and contributions inform our instruction and decision-making.
  • Evidence-Based: Sound and established research grounds our educational practices.
Students study at their laptops around a table in the learning centers.
Two students wearing earbuds focus on their laptops while studying
Students sitting at tables in a brightly lit Learning Center space
Students study at their laptops around a table in the learning centers.