Resources

Tutoring - UD offers over 400 hours of FREE tutoring & academic support each week in both the humanities and sciences, including business, chemistry, computer science, economics, history, languages, math, philosophy, physics, politics, and theology. The Spring 2019 academic support/tutoring schedule will be posted shortly. Tutoring only helps if you take advantage of the services. Please seek out assistance today if you are having difficulties in any of your courses - the tutors and other services are available to help you succeed!

Writing Lab - UD has a very helpful Writing Lab, offering individual 30-minute tutoring sessions for UD students working on essays, regardless of the subject or the student's writing abilities. After each session, the tutor sends a Writing Lab Report to the professor who assigned the essay, summarizing the session and suggestions. The Writing Lab is open Sunday through Friday, with appointments available as early as 10:00 a.m. and as late as 10:30 p.m. A tutoring session may be reserved by signing up for an appointment outside the Lab in Braniff 304.

Selected presentations from past Academic Success offerings:

Raise your GPA from the Dead Workshop discussing ways to improve your GPA

Learning From the Inside Out Workshop helping think about different ways to study

Forming Study Groups Workshop discussing how study groups can improve your retention of material and succeed at UD

Additional Resources

Optimal Work--a website designed by a UD graduate to help you transform your approach to challenges.

News

University Welcomes Leading Catholic Intellectual to Campus

On Friday, Sept. 13, the university community welcomed George Weigel, distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the father of two UD alumnae. Celebrated for his two-volume biography of St. John Paul II and many other intellectual contributions, Weigel presented an exploration of the current Catholic situation in light of a new interpretation of the past 250 years of the church's interaction with social, cultural, economic and political modernity.

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Recent DBA Alumnus Begins Tenure-Track Position at UNI

Gabe Dickey, DBA '19, recently successfully defended his dissertation, titled "Exploring the Human Side of Audit Quality: Team Engagement and Partner Leadership Behaviors," for UD's Doctor of Business Administration. Dickey has spent his career in the accounting profession, the vast majority as a certified public accountant working in auditing. He began UD's DBA program three years ago, drawn in by his interest in broader business issues and the program's practitioner-oriented focus.

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Longtime Campus Safety Officer Sworn In to UDPD

Carlos Tijerina came to UD as a Campus Safety officer 23 years ago. He has loved the camaraderie of the CSO, but it has always been his dream to become a police officer. Then, a little over a year ago, UD finally got a police department. On Sept. 10, Tijerina was sworn in by President Thomas Hibbs as an official part of the UDPD team.

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