What is CAS?

The Thomas College Center for Academic Success (CAS) is a free service available to all Thomas students. Students use the CAS to improve their academic performance--any student is welcome to use the services of the CAS for this reason. Sometimes faculty refer students to the center, but most often students use the facility on their own initiative. Students also use the CAS for extracurricular reasons, such as getting help for writing a job or scholarship application letter. Many students who never needed tutoring or extra help in high school find they may need help in adjusting to the demands of college. The added independence of college requires greater discipline. The CAS can help students develop effective and efficient study skills.

Services

The CAS provides individual tutoring and small group instruction for study skills (such as test-taking and time management), writing, reading efficiency, math, accounting, computers, finance, and economics. Tutoring in specific courses is also available. Supplemental Instruction (SI) services for selected courses are also available for students.

Staff

The CAS is staffed by a Director, Ms. McQuiston; a Writing and Learning Specialist; student tutors and SI leaders.  These work-study students have been selected by a faculty members in the appropriate departments for their competence and their ability to communicate their knowledge to others.

Location

The CAS is located in room 128, next to the computer lab on the first floor of the Administration Building. (It is near the vending machines and the bookstore as well!)

Availability

Tutors arrange their schedules at the beginning of each semester. Most tutors schedule their hours afternoons and evenings from Sunday to Thursday. Once the schedules are determined, they are posted outside the CAS and on bulletin boards throughout the buildings. Resident assistants have copies of schedules, and faculty announce the tutors' hours in their classes. Any student can check the hours by clicking HERE, or by viewing the Thomas College Daily Information Page.

Although students are welcome to "drop in" for help anytime a tutor is scheduled to work, appointments can be made if a student needs a different time.