Center for Academic Success and Achievement

Tutoring/Writing Center

CASA offers professional math and writing tutoring as well as peer tutoring in subjects including business, sciences, social sciences, and language. Peer Academic Coaches (PACs) are high-achieving students who serve as academic mentors that meet one-on-one with students to develop general academic skills. CASA professional tutors are available more than 50 hours a week, and peer tutors are available four to eight hours a week, depending on the subject. Appointments are not required for tutoring services but are recommended for the writing center.

Supplemental Instruction

Supplemental Instruction (SI) is an academic success initiative that utilizes peer-led study sessions to support students enrolled in historically difficult courses. SI is heavily concentrated within the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) majors. SI sessions are scheduled, informal review sessions in which students compare notes, discuss readings and assignments, and prepare for exams. Students learn how to integrate course content and study skills while working together. The sessions are facilitated by SI Leaders, students who have previously done well in the course and who attend all class lectures, meet with faculty, and serve as model students. Students should check with faculty members to see if SI is offered for the course.

RAMS First Year Seminar

All incoming first-year students enroll in a first-year seminar course called RAMS. RAMS courses integrate material related to a successful transition to college with the academic content of the course, resulting in hands-on learning experiences. These courses are, in part, meant to help students adjust to college by providing guidance on study skills and introducing key terms, processes, and campus resources. Each RAMS course has a student mentor who is part of the CASA academic success team; mentors serve as a resource and guide for the transition to FSU and offer academic assistance to students in the course.

Disability/Access Services

Framingham State University offers equal opportunities to all qualified students, including those with disabilities. The University is committed to making reasonable accommodations as necessary to ensure that its programs and activities do not discriminate, or have the effect of discriminating, on the basis of disability. Disability/Access Services works with students with ADD/ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, learning and psychiatric disabilities, students with mobility disabilities, students who are blind or low vision, students who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing, and students with chronic medical conditions.

Disability/Access Services works to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified students. The purpose of accommodations, and/or auxiliary aids is to reduce or eliminate any barriers that may exist because of a disability. Framingham State University is not mandated by law to waive specific courses or academic requirements considered essential to a particular program or degree. Rather, the University is mandated to ensure access so that individuals are not discriminated against on the basis of their disability.

If you have questions, please feel free to email disabilityservices [at] framingham.edu (disabilityservices[at]framingham[dot]edu).