Intellectual Wellness

Intellectual wellness involves the cultivation of one’s capacity to experience curiosity, contemplation, problem-solving and learning as pleasurable. It involves openness to new ideas and experiences, expansion of one’s ability to create, develop, analyze, critique, concentrate, understand, evaluate, solve problems, predict and comprehend. Intellectual wellness is achieved in part through the development of competence in study skills, time and stress management, listening skills, test-taking and public speaking. The rewards of intellectual wellness include the experience of pleasure in the use of one’s mind, in sharing and refining ideas with others, the joy of surprise and discovery, the satisfaction of increased understanding, mastery and competence and ultimately a deep pleasure in the appreciation of the complexity of the universe and the human experience.

Academic Advising

• Contact: 513 745-3489, ML 3124
• Location: Alter Hall, Rooms 104-A through H
• Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
• Services: The academic advising office assists undergraduate students in their pursuit of educational plans and programs that will aid them in fulfilling their major or degree requirements and/or prepare them for a career. The office coordinates academic advising services for students in the College Arts & Sciences, College of Social Sciences, Health, and Education, and the Williams College of Business. Undeclared students, biology and natural sciences freshmen are assigned academic advisors in the advising center. Other students with a major are assigned academic advisors within their specific academic departments. A list of advisors/advisees is posted each semester on the bulletin board on the first floor of Alter Hall and on on the portal. For additional information, go to Academic Advising on the portal.

Center for Adult and Part-Time Students (CAPS)

• Contact: 513 745-3355, ML 3120, Web-site
• Location: Alter Hall, Room 102
• Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Saturday 8:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
  Hours may vary during holidays and summer.
• Mission Statement: The mission of the Center for Adult and Part-Time Students is to, in the Jesuit tradition, extend the resources of the University to non-traditional undergraduate students in their pursuit of lifelong learning.
• Services: CAPS is responsible for admission to the Xavier University programs for qualified undergraduate students and transfer students 22 years of age and older and provides related services including academic advising, registration of classes, and orientation programs.

Weekend Degree Office

• Contact: 513 745-3030, ML 3120, Web-site
• Location: Alter Hall, Room 102
• Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Friday 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Saturday 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
  Hours may vary during holidays and summer.
• Services: The weekend degree program offers an intensive and accelerated study plan developed specifically to fit your schedule as an adult learner. Because the courses are all intensive and accelerated, students are responsible for learning roughly one-third of the course work outside class on their own. The program makes it possible for you to graduate in four years or less if you have transferable prior college credit. Courses are conveniently scheduled on Saturday mornings and afternoons in five eight-week terms. The terms start every August, October, January, March and May. You may join the weekend degree program at the beginning of any of the five eight-week terms. Applicants to the weekend degree program must be 22 years of age or older and high school graduates.

The James A. Glenn Writing Center

• Contact: 513 745-2875
• Location: Alter Hall, Room B-12
• Hours: Monday-Thursday 9:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m., Friday 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Sunday 1:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
• Services: The center offers writing assistance, free of charge, to any enrolled Xavier student regardless of discipline or level of ability. The tutors (including two graduate students) work one-on-one with students during sessions that may last up to 50 minutes at a time, with follow-up appointments as needed. Assistance is available at any stage of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing or proofreading) and for particular concerns such as documentation or grammar and mechanics. Appointments made in advance are appreciated, but the center will accommodate walk-ins whenever possible. No appointment is needed to use computers (Windows XP) or our library of writing-related resources and handouts.
• Fees: There is no charge for enrolled students.

The Learning Assistance Center

• Contact: 513 745-3280, ML 2612, Web-site
• Location: Kuhlman Hall, 1^st floor
• Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
• Services:
  • Testing accommodations for students with learning disabilities:
    • Extended testing time
    • Scribes
    • Reader
    • Non-distracting testing atmosphere
  • Other Services for students with learning disabilities:
    • Books on tape
    • Accommodations in the classroom including:
      • Preferential seating
      • Adaptive technology
      • Scribes
      • Sign language interpreters
      • Referrals for the testing of learning disabilities
      • Trained peer tutors
  • Services for all Xavier students:
    • Peer tutoring. Regular one-on-one subject specific tutoring with a trained tutor. Students must sign up at the LAC (or online) to make an appointment. Study skills assistance is also available (time management, test taking, note taking, etc.) Drop-In tutoring for certain subjects—a tutor is available in the LAC on a certain day and time, for classes such as Spanish, A&P, etc. Supplemental Instruction—tutor attends class and has hour long study sessions several times a week to help integrate study skills and course content material
    • LAC Library: The LAC provides educational material regarding study skills, learning disabilities, and related topics.

Mathematics Tutoring Lab

• Contact: 513 745-3069, Web-site
• Location: 126 Hinkle Hall
• Hours: Monday-Thursday 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Friday 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Sunday 2:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
• Summer hours: Monday-Thursday 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
• Services: Free tutoring to Xavier students in mathematics courses numbered MATH 105 through MATH 171.

McDonald University Library

• Contact: 513 745-3881, ML 5211, Web-site
• Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m. Friday 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Sunday 10:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m.
• McDonald Memorial Library is located at the X on the academic mall. Many of the library’s resources are accessible on the Web for current faculty, staff and students, including 350 electronic research databases, 75,000 full-text electronic journals, 75,000 electronic books, and 2,500 streaming digital videos. The first floor has many areas for individual studying and collaborative working in groups assisted by wireless technology, plasma screens, and 45 circulating laptops. Also included on the first floor is the information resources desk, integrating reference, circulation, and technical assistance. The two upper floors contain more than 222,000 volumes, 1,600 periodical titles, 750,000 microforms, and 11,000 audiovisuals. The Lodge collection of more than 10,000 items includes curriculum materials, textbooks, reference materials, a children’s literature collection, multi-media instructional materials and modern language audio cassettes supporting teacher education. Xavier’s physical collection is supplemented by 47.6 million items accessible through other OhioLINK colleges and universities which are requested online and delivered through a state-wide courier system at no cost to the Xavier community.
• Fees: Overdue Xavier materials are assessed fines of 10 cents/day/item; OhioLINK materials are 50 cents/day/item. A lost Xavier item is $85 plus overdue fines; a lost OhioLINK item is $110 plus overdue fines and a $35 non-refundable processing fee, even if the item is returned.