Support Services in One Location
The new QHCC Student Success Center brings writing support, math tutoring, transfer advising, study-skills coaching, and library research assistance into one coordinated campus location.
Students may begin with a scheduled appointment or ask staff which service best fits a current concern. The center is designed to reduce the number of offices students must visit when academic issues overlap.
Students often know they need help but not which office to ask. The center gives them a clear starting point.
Jordan Lee, Dean of Student Success
Help Before a Problem Becomes a Crisis
Faculty may refer students who are missing assignments, struggling with course concepts, or showing signs that additional planning would help. Students do not need a faculty referral to use the center.
Workshops will address time management, test preparation, citation, reading strategies, transfer research, and communicating with instructors. Selected evening hours will support students who work during the day.
A Coordinated Approach
Center staff will communicate with advising and student services when a student needs help beyond tutoring, including schedule questions, accessibility support, technology access, or community referrals.
Usage and student feedback will be reviewed each term to determine staffing, workshop topics, and the subjects requiring additional tutoring coverage.
One Starting Point for Academic Help
The Student Success Center is intended to reduce the confusion students face when academic challenges overlap. A student may need writing support, advising, library research help, and time-management coaching in the same week.
Center staff will help students identify the most useful first service and then connect them with the appropriate appointment, workshop, or referral.
Faculty Referrals and Student Self-Referral
Faculty may refer students when missing work, quiz results, attendance patterns, or class participation suggest that extra support would help. Students can also request help without waiting for an instructor referral.
The center will encourage early use. Staff said tutoring and planning conversations are most effective before students reach the final weeks of a course.
Services Will Be Reviewed Each Term
QHCC will review appointment demand, workshop attendance, student feedback, and course-referral patterns to determine which subjects need additional coverage.
The college also plans to track repeated student questions. Those questions may lead to new workshops on citation, reading strategies, transfer research, math review, study planning, or communicating with instructors.
Why This Update Matters
This update is part of QHCC's ongoing effort to give students, families, faculty, staff, and community partners clear information before a deadline or program decision becomes urgent. The most important details are practical: Services include tutoring, advising, and research support; Appointments and walk-in guidance are available; Selected evening hours will be offered.
Students should use the announcement to plan next steps, not only to read about an event after it happens. In most cases, the best response is to check eligibility, confirm dates, prepare records or questions, and contact the office listed below before making registration or program decisions.
How Students Should Use This Information
For students and families, the immediate planning points are: Writing, math, study-skills, transfer, and research support are connected through the center; Students may begin with an appointment or ask which service fits the concern; Faculty referrals are welcome but not required for students to seek help. These reminders are intended to reduce last-minute confusion and help students bring the right information to advising, admissions, or student service conversations.
The college's next actions are: Bring the assignment, syllabus, or advising question to the appointment; Ask for help early enough to revise work or adjust a study plan; Follow up if one service identifies a need for another office. Students who are affected by this update should keep copies of related messages, monitor college email, and ask for clarification when a requirement, schedule, or office contact is unclear.
| Planning Area | Details |
|---|---|
| Primary topic | Student Services |
| Important facts | Services include tutoring, advising, and research support; Appointments and walk-in guidance are available; Selected evening hours will be offered. |
| Student reminders | Writing, math, study-skills, transfer, and research support are connected through the center; Students may begin with an appointment or ask which service fits the concern; Faculty referrals are welcome but not required for students to seek help. |
| Follow-up actions | Bring the assignment, syllabus, or advising question to the appointment; Ask for help early enough to revise work or adjust a study plan; Follow up if one service identifies a need for another office. |
| Office contact | Student Success Center · studentservices@quailhillcollege.com |
Available Support
- Writing, math, study-skills, transfer, and research support are connected through the center.
- Students may begin with an appointment or ask which service fits the concern.
- Faculty referrals are welcome but not required for students to seek help.
Using the Center
- Bring the assignment, syllabus, or advising question to the appointment.
- Ask for help early enough to revise work or adjust a study plan.
- Follow up if one service identifies a need for another office.