Welcome to the LRC!

The Learning Resources Center (LRC)
is UMBC’s comprehensive undergraduate academic support program. Our mission is to provide academic support programs to UMBC undergraduates so that students who seek assistance have the opportunity to reach their academic goals and become independent, lifelong learners. LRC collaborates with students, faculty, staff, and the community to conduct programs of the scope and depth that maximize learning success at an honors university.

LRC seeks to become an integral part of the UMBC experience by facilitating student learning in its many forms. In addition, we seek to provide the tools for our undergraduate tutors, peer mentors, writing fellows, supplemental instruction leaders, and support staff to have the opportunity to reach their goals. We will be known as a department that combines traditional, creative, and civic engagement opportunities for students that support independent, lifelong learning.

LRC services are free of charge and open to all enrolled students. Our programs and activities include:

• The Tutorial Centers for walk-in and appointment peer tutoring

• The Placement Testing Program to assess the ability of entering freshmen and some transfer students for appropriate placement into UMBC mathematics and English courses; college reading ability is tested as well for advisement purposes

• The First-Year Intervention Program which notifies freshmen who are receiving any course grade below C by the sixth week of each semester as reported by faculty

• Supplemental Instruction an academic assistance program that utilizes peer-assisted study sessions.

• The International Teaching Assistants Program (ITAP) which introduces new ITAs to the American University and offers tutorial and course instruction in English diction and classroom communication

• LRC 101A a course designed to strengthen the skills that students need to get off academic probation and graduate