How it differs from tutoring
An SI leader attends every class session alongside enrolled students, then runs structured study sessions built around that week's actual material rather than general study skills; attendance is informal and no registration is required.
Where the courses are chosen
Sections are selected each term based on historically high rates of D grades, F grades and withdrawals, not by instructor request, so support follows the data rather than which department asks first.
In and around Porter Falls
Support at Porter is deliberately clustered on the first two levels of Halvorsen Library so a student can move from one kind of help to another without leaving the building or re-explaining the situation. Walk-in hours run late Monday through Thursday during the semester, and everything can also be booked through MyPorter.
The practical details
Courses covered: Selected by past DFW rate, mostly gateway science and math. Sessions: 2–3 per week, optional, free. Leaders: Students who previously earned an A in the same course. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Student Success Center (Halvorsen Library, Level 1). Call (715) 555–0170 or email success@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.