Academic Writing and Learning Center

Located in the Securian Learning Commons on the second floor of the Kathryn A. Martin Library, the Academic Writing and Learning Center (AWLC) provides academic courses and services designed to help all members of the campus community reach their academic and professional goals. We work in partnership with UMD’s administration, staff, faculty, and students to offer four programs including the Tutoring Center, the Writers' Workshop (writing center), SSP learning and leadership courses, and UST 1000: Learning in Community (first-year experience).

History: The Student Tutorial Program existed at UMD by 1970. In the early 1970s it appears to have merged with (or perhaps been replaced by?) the Supportive Services Program. In 2015, the Supportive Services Program and its Tutoring Center, which had been serving UMD for over 30 years, joined forces with the Writers’ Workshop, which was only two years old at the time, to become the Academic Writing and Learning Center (AWLC), with Dr. Jill Jenson as its director. Early in 2018, the first-year experience course, now known as “Learning in Community,” joined the AWLC.