The Multidisciplinary Success Center (MDSC) can be easy to miss as it’s tucked away on the third floor of the L building at LAC, yet the center has a multitude of different resources that could help students academically.
Many students are only familiar with the center due to the fact that they’ve had to visit to complete a DLA for various classes such as Learn-11, Sociology, Nursing, or even culinary courses.
DLA assignments, or, “Directed Learning Activities” require students to complete a set of questions which are related to the course material of the class it’s assigned for and requires a follow up with a DLA tutor to discuss their responses.
Not only are there opportunities to work with DLA tutors, but students also have access to study rooms and computer access upstairs in the main center.
A consistent visitor of the Multidisciplinary Success Center, Reyonna Hancox, believes that the center is a great tool for students.
Hancox describes the Multidisciplinary Success Center as “One of the top spots to do work,” because the atmosphere of the center is “…very chill, not very loud.”
Just downstairs from the center, on the second floor of the L Building, resides the Multidisciplinary Success Center’s tutoring center.
As of right now, they offer tutoring for a hundred different courses.
The most common subjects that students come in to receive tutoring for are chemistry, accounting, life sciences, japanese, economics, and physics.
Although, they also have tutoring for anthropology, art, communications, computer science, history, math, and many more subjects.
Students can access the tutoring schedule and view all the specific classes available by searching “LBCC MDSC Tutoring” into their search browser, clicking on the option labeled “MDSC Tutoring” and clicking the red button labeled “MDSC Online and On Campus Tutoring Schedule.”
If students fail to schedule an appointment for any reason, the center is usually highly accommodating to walk-ins, although it is important to mention that tutoring appointments are capped out at approximately thirty minutes per student.
However, front desk assistant Gabriel Marquez said, “We can help you for longer if we’re not that busy.”
The tutoring sessions are also very accommodating to disabled students who are a part of the Disabled Students Program & Services (DSPS), giving them forty-five minute tutoring sessions as opposed to the regular thirty minutes.
“It’s been a great experience, they give me extended time because of DSPS,” said Jay-R Garcia, a DSPS student at LBCC.
Garcia also mentioned that the coordinator of the MDSC tutoring center, Sean Dominguez, is open to trying to meet the needs of all students.
Students should note that the tutoring center usually gets the busiest the week before and of finals, so students should plan accordingly when scheduling their appointments.
Although there are many places to study on campus, the Multidisciplinary Success Center proves itself as an ideal place to retreat to when the library or other centers get too overpopulated to focus.