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Welcome to the Sanger team!  The Sanger Learning Center is a unit within the School of Undergraduate Studies (UGS)an Undergraduate College (UC) unit.  For more than 65 70 years, the Sanger Learning Center has evolved to match the changing learning needs of UT Austin students.  Despite its many name changes over that time, the Sanger Learning Center has continually diversified and expanded its programs to facilitate student success and improve university graduation rates.   Our diverse varied programming requires a significant degree of specialization and staff expertise. Members of the professional staff   Professional staff members hold advanced degrees in mathematics, history, biology, speech communication, educational psychology, marine science, molecular and cellular biology, English, and adult education. Our  Our agency’s enduring objective is to help UT Austin students reach their highest potential in personal, career, and academic development. 

Our Mission

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We empower students to achieve academic and professional goals by providing holistic learning support.

Goals

To help students become effective learners.
To promote help-seeking behavior.
To provide professional development opportunities that prepare students for lives beyond the university.

To fulfill our mission, the Sanger Learning Center provides a variety of various services and resources for course support and study effectiveness, including content-based discussion sections and classes, peer tutoring, peer mentoring, and professional meetings, and workshops.

 The Sanger Learning Center currently operates from two locations on campus: Jester Residential Hall (JES) with four primary support teams: Course Support and Instruction, Academic Counseling Tutorial Services, and Flawn Academic Center (FAC).  The Public Speaking & Outreach and Math Refreshers and Reviews.  Each unit is organized around the program teams’ concept. Two teams, each Each team is led by a Program Director Coordinator who reports to the Sanger Learning Center’s Director , administer and administers all aspects of their respective programs. The

1. Course Support and Instruction

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 The Academic Counseling Tutorial Services team, located in Jester Hall (JES), oversees learning specialist counseling services, the Peer Academic Coaching program (PAC), Appointment Tutoring, Drop-In Tutoring (DIT), and Workshops and Outreach.

 In 2014, the Dean of Undergraduate Studies asked the Sanger Learning Center to create a new learning intervention for one of UT’s student Success Programs, the Discovery Scholars. New professional positions funded directly from the Office of the Vice Provost for Enrollment Management and Curriculum’s Office were filled and four to five Sanger professional staff operate as a third team providing academic counseling and content support to a group of approximately 700 UT students. (Their activities are described in the report, Addendum A, Success Initiatives update 20152).

1. area programs are tied to specific historically difficult courses, meet with groups of student participants, and plan instructional events over multiple time points in a semester.

2. Academic Counseling Tutoring Services area includes Peer Academic Coaching (PAC), Learning Specialist appointments, and Tutoring Instruction delivered to groups of students or one-on-one. All programs in the academic counseling area emphasize study skills that will benefit students across multiple courses and disciplines.

3. Assessment, Marketing and Outreach is tasked with information distribution like html emails, signage, campaigns and other related processes. The Outreach team presents workshops across campus to individual classrooms, student organizations, and student success programs.

4. Math Refreshers and Reviews are designed to support student success in calculus courses. Offered at the beginning of each semester, refreshers provide a series of classroom meetings designed to strengthen students’ calculus prerequisite knowledge and skills. Exam reviews at mid- and end-of-semester are designed to provide thoughtful and strategic problem-solving practice just-in-time.

While the teams act independently in administering their program responsibilities, each team member spends considerable time and energy communicating and collaborating with students, staff members, and other stakeholders across campus. 

Here are two visuals of the center to help you understand how we work.

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