Suffolk County Community College

Located in 3 locations on the Grant campus, the Centers for Academic Excellence offer students the opportunity to sharpen academic skills in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere.  Students are ecnouraged to familiarize themselves with many resources and to maximize their academic potential. 

The Liberal Arts and Humanities center, in Sagtikos 100, provides tutoring to students on a scheduled-appointment and walk-in basis.  Free one-on-one tutoring by academic professionals, is available in multiple disciplines such as History, Philosophy, Sociology, French, Italian, and Spanish languages;and special needs tutoring.  Along with audiovisual learning materials and related workbooks, center computers offer grammar, writing, and language courseware to reinforce academic skills for students in the college's ESL program as well as for students in various liberal arts and humanities disciplines.  The center's reading lab is home to RDG 098/099 and ESL 011/012 students fulfilling their course skills requirements.  The center's test room ensures that the requirements of special needs students are accomodated during the administration of exams.

The STEM and Business Center, in the Health, Sports, and Education Center, Rm. A129, provides free tutoring in mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, economics and accounting.  Tutoring is available on a walk-in basis only, during scheduled hours.  

The Writing Studio, in Nesconset, Rm. 19, provides tutoring by appointment and walk-in basis in the writing process for all disciplines.  Students will be assisted in generating ideas, planning papers, research, organization, and structure of papers as well as learning how to revise and edit.