New London’s Connecticut College is using a recent $11 million anonymous gift to establish an Academic Resource Center to assist student achievement.
Leo I. Higdon Jr., president of the1,900-pupil, private liberal-arts school, announced Monday the new center will house a new four-person staff who will aid in freshman orientation, pre-major advising, the application process for post-graduate fellowships, and the funded internship program.
Staff also will work closely with staff and faculty in the Joy Shechtman Mankoff Center for Teaching & Learning.
The 101-year-old college said it will hire the center’s director and begin programming in temporary quarters this year.
Plans are the for center to eventually occupy 2,500 square feet on the third floor of the Charles E. Shain Library reconfigured into seminar rooms, staff offices, and large and small meeting rooms for tutoring and workshops
Staff and programming of the Roth Writing Center and the Office of Disability Services will be relocated here as well.
