The Learning Assistance Program (LAP)

Located on the second floor of D.D. Dougherty Hall, the Learning Assistance Program offers free services to help you to achienve your educational goals. A variety of learning skills services (classes, workshops, academic coaches, standardized test prep, etc.) is available to help you to succeed at Appalachian.

The following tutoring/lab services are available for business courses:

• ACC 2100 and ACC 2110 - Drop-in help labs (in Raley Hall) and weekly tutoring appointments
• ECO 2030 and ECO 2040 - Weekly tutoring appointments
• ECO 2100 and ECO 2200 - Weekly tutoring appointments
• MAT 1030 - Drop-in help lab for MAT 1030 (in Walker Hall) - another Math lab exists for other 1000/2000 level Math courses

In addition to these services for busness and business related courses, the LAP offers weekly tutoring appointments in a variety of subjects. 

The University Writing Center

Located in Room 008 Belk Library & Information Commons, the University Writing Center offers free services to students, faculty, and staff of the University. Anyone who would like to discuss a piece of writing with an informed, sensitive reader is welcome. The center is available to work with writers on a wide variety of projects: papers for academic courses; masters and senior thesis chapters; personal essays for job, graduate school, and law school applications; creative writing projects; grant or project proposals; and course syllabi. We work with writers at any stage of the writing process, from inventing topics to editing at the sentence level.