Academic Success Centers

Wake Tech's Academic Success Centers offer comfortable and inviting spaces where students can study, build skills and develop ideas, collaborate with other students and engage with faculty. Each of the centers has a specific focus – STEM, social sciences and fine arts – and provides valuable resources and support aimed at helping students complete their programs of study successfully.

Students are required to present a current Wake Tech ID card to use the Academic Success Centers.

Social sciences

The Social Sciences Resource Center is a welcoming space for Anthropology, Psychology and Sociology students to study, collaborate, network or get faculty input about courses and programs of study.

Centers are on Southern Wake Campus and Scott Northern Wake Campus, as well as online.

STEM

STEM Centers offer drop-in tutoring, advising and career exploration and guidance for students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) courses. The centers also provide opportunities for students to interact with faculty and peers in a comfortable, collaborative environment, sharing ideas and supporting each other in the study of STEM courses.

Centers are on Southern Wake Campus, Scott Northern Wake Campus and Perry Health Sciences Campus.

STEM Labs offer computers, software and whiteboards to provide hands-on experience in problem-solving, project planning and troubleshooting. The lab on Scott Northern Wake Campus supports undergraduate research with space and equipment for sustained research projects. That includes computers, a 3D printer, microscopes and stereoscopes, a prep room for storing and preparing chemicals and conference space. Faculty mentors work with students.

Labs are on Southern Wake Campus and Scott Northern Wake Campus.

Visual arts

The VASE Center (Visual Art Success and Engagement) provides students in the Associate in Fine Arts-Visual Art program a forum to enhance and strengthen their educational experience at Wake Tech:

• Engage with faculty and peers to enrich shared academic experience in visual art
• Expand on material covered in classes
• Collaborate and work together on art studio projects
• Network with faculty, students and artists in the community to gain insight into the professional visual art field
• Receive individual feedback on artwork from instructors who are practicing artists or art historians

VASE hours vary due to faculty and studio availability. AFA-Visual Art students are advised to check the VASE Blackboard site for information on VASE-sponsored workshops.

The Tutoring and Learning Center (TLC) also provides assistance in either one-on-one or group settings for students who need help with everything from science and math to writing, presentations and foreign languages. The TLC can even help improve study skills and computer know-how.