Learning Assistance

The Student Access Center can assist students with disabilities by facilitating accommodations that can remove barriers to their academic success. To learn more about getting accommodations in the classroom, visit the  Student Access Center website or watch this  video tutorial  of how to request accommodations.   

Appointments for tutoring, writing consultations, and peer academic coaching in the  Wingspan: Center for Learning and Writing Support  are all scheduled through the   Navigate Student App or the JayhawkGPS website. Wingspan is located in Anschutz Library 424 and offers both in-person and virtual appointments.    

Supplemental Instruction (SI) may be available for your course. SI provides free group study sessions for select courses led by a student leader who excelled when they took the course. To attend SI, please see the  session schedule and simply show up. There is no sign up or appointment request for SI.   

Wingspan offers a variety of tutoring support across many courses and disciplines. The most updated list of courses supported can always be found in the  Navigate Student App. More information on the tutoring courses offered can be found on the  Wingspan’s tutoring webpage.  If you don’t see the course that you are looking for support in, you can submit the  tutor request form,  and someone from Wingspan will be in touch with you soon. 

Yes, all Wingspan services, including tutoring, are completely free for students!   

If you need help studying for an upcoming test, schedule an appointment with a Peer Academic Coach.  Peer academic coaching allows students to meet one on one with a peer to discuss effective study strategies, goal setting, and other academic success strategies. Coaches also have body doubling appointments available that can serve as accountability sessions for you to sit down and get things done!  Appointments can be scheduled through the  Navigate Student App  or the  JayhawkGPS website.  

Wingspan’s writing consultants  are trained as peer educators, meaning they work with writers to learn new strategies with the goal of helping writers edit their own writing. This means that, while the writing consultant will not edit your paper for you, they will still talk about wording and grammar, teach editing techniques, discuss your wording options, and let you choose what to change in your own papers. Ultimately, you can continue growing and improving as a writer.   

Graduate Student Specific

In addition to the information above, the Peer Graduate Coaches and writing consultants do not provide proofreading, copyediting, or help with formatting. You may contact the Writing Center's at writing@ku.edu for a list of professional editors and visit KU Libraries Thesis and Dissertation Formatting for help with electronic thesis/dissertation formatting.

Wingspan’s writing consultants offer support services  that span any type of writing assignment that you may have. This is not limited to only papers for your English class, but any writing for any class. Additionally, writing support can be offered to students for personal writing projects, including graduate school personal statements, letters of intent, creative writing, and more!   

Graduate Student Specific

Graduate writing consultants can help with course papers, theses, capstone project written documents, dissertations, and other documents and written work associated with graduate coursework and programmatic requirements. 

*Please note that students in the School of Social Welfare can make appointments with Joe Bush, the Social Welfare Professional Writing Consultant. These services can be accessed on the Social Welfare Writing Consultant website.