ASC Overview

The mission of Dartmouth's Academic Skills Center is to assist students in achieving their academic goals.

The Academic Skills Center accomplishes its mission through a variety of services and programs. We help students improve their academic skills and ability to learn, thereby maximizing their academic experience and allowing them to achieve greater academic performance and personal fulfillment.

The Center continuously works to develop services and programs to reach an increasingly diverse and changing student population.

In promoting and furthering students' intellectual skills and helping to facilitate the academic mission of the college, the Academic Skills Center works closely and collaboratively with the faculty and other student affairs offices.

Just a few reasons to visit the ASC: 

• You want to better manage your time
• You want to improve your grades and/or test performance
• You don't feel comfortable talking in class
• You're attending class regularly but you feel like you're missing important points
• You feel like you're a slow reader
• You're having trouble completing tests in the allotted time
• You're spending hours studying for foreign language but still not "getting it"
• You feel like you don't have enough time to get everything done
• You're not sure how to take notes
• You want to sign up for a group or individual tutor
• You are easily distracted in class and while studying

• Monday through Friday: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
• Closed 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

There may be additional times when the Academic Skills Center will be closed; we will post that information with as much advance notice as possible.

Location: 178 Berry Library

The Academic Skills Center is located in the Berry part of Baker-Berry Library in Suite 178. 

If entering the library from the three main entrances labeled Baker:

Navigate to the Baker Information Desk. Go past the desk and veer left to enter the First Floor Berry corridor. Before arriving to the large staircase veer right and look for Academic Skills Center signage.

If entering the library from the three main entrances labeled Carson: 

Navigate to the large staircase. Take the stair case or the elevator up to the First Floor Berry corridor. Veer left and look for Academic Skills Center signage. 

Since its beginning in 1960, the Academic Skills Center has grown and evolved, with the central goal of seeking new ways to serve students at Dartmouth College in their pursuit of becoming effective and efficient learners.

Learn more about the history of our center:

• A Brief History of the ASC
• 2005-Present
• 1993-2005
• 1983-1993
• 1974-1983
• 1960-1974
• ASC Staff 1974-Present