The Academic Support Center (ASC) (formerly LDC) provides academic assistance to the RIT and Rochester communities. ASC areas include Academic Assessment, College Restoration Program, Institute Testing Service, Learning Support Services, Mathematics, Reading, Writing, Study Skills, and Tutor Training. The Academic Support Center is located in the Eastman Building on the 2nd floor. For additional information please visit www.rit.edu/asc or contact Rhonda Laskoski, ASC Director (475-2487 or rjlldc@rit.edu).

Human Resource's Center for Professional Development (CPD) provides workshops, seminars and training for faculty and staff on quality service, individual performance, faculty/staff orientation, supervision/management/leadership, technology/computer skills and diversity/deaf culture and language. E-LearningZone, sponsored and supported by the CPD and ITS, is an alternative or complement to expensive classroom training. This new web-based training system is for RIT faculty, staff, and students. Developed and hosted by Element K, it is available at no incremental cost to all users with an RIT computer account.

The English Language Center provides a full-time intensive English program (20 hours per week) for students whose language competence is not sufficient to handle any academic courses. The Center also provides international students with the opportunity to improve their facility in English through language courses focusing on reading, writing, grammar, conversation, vocabulary, presentation skills, pronunciation, idioms, American culture, Business Communications and many more. Students who appear to be having difficulty with the English language should be referred to the ELC in the George Eastman Building room 1301 for assessment and course recommendations. For more information call 5-6684 or go to www.rit.edu/elc. The Center also provides a translation service as well as one -on -one foreign language instruction taught by an international student.

The Educational Technology Center (ETC) provides a wide range of instructional, media and graphic services.

The Institute Effective Teaching Committee (IETC) works for the faculty and with the Institute academic administration to foster quality teaching at the Institute.

Online Learning at RIT offers faculty guidance and support in using distance and online technologies.

The Teaching, Learning and Technology (TLT) Studio is a test-bed facility that showcases the synergy of RIT faculty and staff through experimental, participatory and sustainable teaching, learning and communication.

Wallace Library - Centrally positioned on the 1,300-acre campus, RIT Wallace Library is the hub for research and information exchange, housing traditional and digital research materials conveniently under one roof. The library is best described as a high technology, multimedia resource center offering access to a vast array of information resources as well as a place for the RIT community to gather, talk, connect, explore new ideas and more.