No matter how academically well-prepared, focused and engaged, everyone struggles in a class once in a while. No matter how superbly you are doing in an intense and fascinating course, you'll want to do even better and sometimes you'll need help finding the way to continue to improve and to set the bar even higher.

Monmouth’s energetic and ambitious students benefit from our extensive program of support. We offer a comprehensive array of academic services to guide and enhance your educational experience, including:

Academic Advising

Monmouth College is known for its strong academic advising and caring faculty, as well as for the informal mentoring faculty and student life staff provide. All of our tenure-track faculty serve as academic advisors. When you arrive at the College, you’ll be assigned as advisor the faculty instructor who will teach your  Introduction to the Liberal Arts course (or someone in your area of academic interest), and once you select a major, you’ll find an advisor in the appropriate department. We make it easy for you to change advisors and to develop the academic connections and mentoring relationships that are best for you.

We encourage you to develop friendships with informal advisors amongst the faculty and student life staff. You'll quickly find that everyone at Monmouth will care about you as a person and about your experience at the College.

If you have an interest in engineering, business, law, or the health services professions, you'll also have access to faculty advisors in our pre-professional programs as well as the resources and professional staff of the Wackerle Career and Leadership Center.

The Mellinger Teaching and Learning Center

The Mellinger Teaching and Learning Center (MTLC) is staffed by a professional coordinator who works closely with faculty advisors and a network of peer tutors. The MTLC offers tutoring support for writing and mathematics, and point-of-need assistance within the content areas of courses. The MTLC provides one-on-one tutoring (both drop in and scheduled) and small-group tutoring; it offers regular workshops on study skills and time management. Supplemental Instruction courses are organized by the MTLC. You'll also find here assistance in preparing for the GRE, LSAT, MCAT and GMAT tests. The MTLC is also one of the places out of which our disabilities services are coordinated (in conjunction with Student Life). See also the Writing Program page.

You might consider becoming a peer tutor yourself!

Librarians and the Hewes Library

Monmouth’s librarians are always available to assist you in locating information, sharpening your research skills and evaluating sources. The spacious, sunny, recently-renovated Hewes Library includes private study areas, group work spaces, a coffee shop and patio, two art galleries with teaching collections, and extensive access to library holdings and electronic databases both at Monmouth and at other colleges and universities.

The Wackerle Career and Leadership Center

We’ll help you explore careers, locate and prepare for job-shadowing opportunities and internships, network with Monmouth alumni, find your first full-time job, and apply to graduate schools and professional programs.