Resources for Faculty - Learning Resource Center

Information for Faculty

The Learning Resource Center offers a variety of resources and support for students and faculty at CI. We encourage faculty to add information about the LRC to your syllabi and Canvas pages as resources for your students. Information regarding tutoring for students for syllabus and/or Canvas (PDF, 3.61MB)

Watch this video to get an overview of how the LRC serves both students and faculty! (updated Fall 2023)

The LRC would like to collaborate with faculty in any way that we can. Please let us know how we can best serve you!

Nominate a Student to be a Tutor!

Each semester, the Learning Resource Center recruits promising academic leaders to apply for Peer Educator positions in the LRC. We are intentional about seeking faculty input to nominate students for these positions, based on their performance in the classroom. We ask faculty members to especially consider students who may not perceive themselves as leaders, as is often the case for students from historically marginalized populations.

During our active recruitment cycles, we ask faculty members to put forward names of any students you believe would make exceptional peer educators at CSUCI. Faculty with student nominations can refer students to our Apply to be a Tutor page for information on how to apply.

Exam Proctoring

The Learning Resource Center offers faculty the opportunity to have individual students make up an exam due to excused absence! The exam proctoring window is from 9:00 am- 12:00 pm Monday-Thursday. (Students needing testing accommodations rather than makeups should contact Disability Accommodations and Support Services instead.)

Please see the LRC's Exam Proctoring Services Protocol (PDF, 94KB).

Faculty must complete an online proctoring request at least 48 hours prior to the requested make-up times (one request per-student).

Embedded Peer Education

The LRC offers an extensive Embedded Peer Education (EPE) program. Faculty may reach out to the LRC to inquire about the availability of EPE to support their in-person and/or virtual course sections. EPEs attend all synchronous lectures with enrolled students and support student engagement and learning in a variety of ways, both in and out of the classroom. Asynchronous instruction is also enhanced with an EPE (known as a Canvas-Attached Tutor or CAT), who may be utilized to engage with Canvas course activities and other asynchronous elements. EPEs host weekly drop-in support hours for enrolled students, in addition to tutoring broadly in their content area.

CSUCI's Embedded Peer Education Collaborative (EPEC) Summer Institute

For faculty members seeking to strengthen their work with embedded peer educators and to learn intentional strategies for incorporating embedded peer educators into the classroom experience, please visit our EPEC Institute webpage to read about an exciting summer learning opportunity!

Please contact Brook Masters, Director of the Learning Resource Center and Academic Success Services at 805-437-8921 for more information or to inquire about an EPE for your course(s).

Student Accountability

If you would like to encourage your students to visit the LRC for class credit, there is a verification form and a stamp that the student can request from their tutor that verifies the student's visit to the LRC. Please feel free to download and distribute the verification form to your students. The LRC tutors will sign a verification form only after working directly with a student.

LRC Visit Verification Form (PDF, 73.8KB)

Office Hours

The Learning Resource Center has shared office space available on a first-come, first-served basis for faculty and staff members who would like to conduct their office hours in the Center. If you would like to reserve a room, please contact the Administrative Support Coordinator at 805-437-8409.

Test Corrections

LRC policy states that tutors are not permitted to help students with take-home quizzes, tests, test corrections, or class projects directly unless specified by the professor by email or phone. If the professor has not directly contacted the LRC, tutors may assist by working with the student regarding the general concepts covered in the assignment. If you would like the tutors to help your students directly with test corrections, please contact the LRC at lrc@csuci.edu or 805-437-8409.

Program-Funded Tutoring

If your program would like to establish subject-based tutoring in an area not currently supported by the LRC, you may reach out to the Center to discuss the possibility of department-funded tutoring to be included in the LRC services. Such program-funded tutors are fully incorporated into the LRC's tutoring team, completing our CRLA International Tutor Training Certified program and receiving support, observation, evaluation, and administrative processing through the Center and our staff. Please contact Brook Masters, Director of the Learning Resource Center and Academic Success Services at brook.masters@csuci.edu or 805-437-8921 to explore possibilities for your program!