Campus Academic Resource Program's Unique Contributions to SF State

CARP is an evening academic support program.
During the summer, CARP is the only full-service tutoring center open to all SF State students.
CARP is student run.
CARP conducts In-Class outreach in which members of our staff visit an assortment of classes and introduce CARP to the students and give the students advice on how to best make use of our services.
CARP offers a series of free workshops developed to help SF State students develop college success skills and to prepare for a variety of campus exams.
CARP works in conjunction with the Advising Center to identify at risk students and develop personalized academic support.
CARP exemplifies SF State’s commitment to Community Service Learning.
CARP has tutors allocated specifically for GWAR courses.
CARP is continually conducting evaluations by its clients in order to improve our service quality.

CARP is an evening academic support program.

Many students who are either first generation college students or members of traditionally underrepresented groups on campus frequently find themselves unable to attend academic support services whose hours of operation are during traditional school hours. So by maintaining evening hours of operation, CARP fills this void.

With the exception of the Senior Coordinator, every member of CARP is either a Graduate or Undergraduate student at San Francisco State . CARP provides students the opportunity to develop ‘real world’ skills in a professional academic support environment. Whether Coordinators, Tutors, Receptionists or Office Support Specialists, CARP members are held to exacting standards of professionalism as they develop the skills necessary to succeed outside of SF State. As an illustration of such professionalism, student coordinators routinely meet with SF State administration, staff and faculty in order to elucidate CARP’s philosophy and methods.
Additionally, CARP’s student coordinators meet with SF State faculty to address the instructor’s specific academic concerns regarding both their students as a whole and specific referrals so that CARP’s tutors can develop an academic support program that focuses on specific needs and issues.

CARP also offers test preparation workshops and is in the process of developing and launching GET preparation workshops.
Time Management: One of our more popular workshops. In this workshop we discuss and model strategies for realizing where one’s time goes as well as how schedule effectively. Other components touched on in this workshop include, but are not limited to, how to study smarter and not harder, and recognizing needs versus wants while maintaining the perspective of a college student.
Overcoming test anxiety: This workshop breaks down the various types of exams typically administered to college students and discusses various strategies for systematically approaching these tests.
Research methods and strategies: With this workshop we model effective research strategies by highlighting many of the various services offered by SF State, services which often go unnoticed by students. Presenters of this workshop also offer real life advice culled from their extensive experience as students.
Study Skills: How to study smarter not harder. We offer various suggestions aimed at becoming a successful student while still maintaining a healthy social life.

At CARP both tutors and coordinators are SF State students engaged in providing academic support for the University community. In order to achieve this aim, coordinators and tutors conduct best practice research related to learning theory and tutorial techniques and put this research into action within the SF State learning community.