2005-06 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705
 

Director: Carmy G. Carranza

        Website: http://old.www.iup.edu/lec

The LEC offers a package of freshman seminar courses designed to prepare first-year students with the skills and knowledge important to college success. These three 1-credit courses count toward graduation and include LRNC 150 Introduction to Higher Education, LRNC 160 Learning Strategies, and LRNC 170 Career Exploration.

The LEC also offers a pre-college experience to all incoming first-year students called CUSP: The Early Entrance Experience. This program starts one week prior to fall classes and includes the course LRNC 150 Introduction to Higher Education plus activities, workshops, and seminars designed to orient students to the higher education experience, to IUP in particular, and to the factors in student success.

In addition, courses are offered which develop learning skills to enhance academic success. Courses in three levels of developmental mathematics (LRNC 091, 092, 093) and two courses in reading (LRNC 070, 075) are offered for institutional credit. LRNC 110 Critical Reading and Thinking is a 2-credit course linked with another content course. Institutional credit counts in determining full-time enrollment status but not in determining credits applicable for degree eligibility at graduation.
 

The LEC provides noncredit educational support services in the areas of reading, writing, mathematics, biological and physical sciences, foreign languages, social sciences, study skills, and related areas. These services are provided by both professional and undergraduate paraprofessional staff. Students are encouraged to participate in a broad array of program services including one-to-one and group tutorials, workshops, and Supplemental Instruction sessions provided by a trained staff of undergraduate paraprofessionals. These services are available in most content areas, as well as in general study skills.

All students matriculating through the LEC as LEC advisees, including full-time students admitted for the Associate of Arts degree, receive a program of freshman-year courses, developmental advisement, and academic support services.

Act 101 Program

Students identified as eligible for Act 101 support receive the Learning Enhancement Center freshman program. The Act 101 Program, created as a result of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Equal Opportunity Act 101 in 1971 by the legislature of the commonwealth, focuses on servicing IUP students in order to make the ideal of equal educational opportunity a reality for all qualified students.

The LEC office is located in 202 Pratt Hall. Further information about the Learning Enhancement Center and the Act 101 Program can be obtained by calling 724-357-2729 or through the web at www.iup.edu/lec.

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