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ACADEMIC ADVISING STUDENT RESOURCES altoona.psu.edu/academic Academic advising promotes intellectual discovery, encourages students to take advantage of both in-and out-of-class educational opportunities, and helps them identify and achieve their goals. In addition, advising supports students’ successful navigation of the University’s academic opportunities, policies, systems, and procedures. Working with advisers, students assume responsibility for their education and become lifelong, self-directed learners and decision makers. Academic advising is a collaborative teaching relationship among academic advisers, students, faculty, and the University community. LEARNING SUPPORT AND RESOUCES Penn State Altoona offers a variety of academic services and courses designed to help students successfully complete their academic programs. • Learning Resources Center, 135 Eiche Library The Learning Resources Center (LRC) helps Penn State Altoona students succeed in learning. All services are free. Most tutoring is handled by professional tutors or instructors from the discipline. In some subjects, peer tutoring is offered by students who have aced the class you are seeking help with and have received tutor training. More information can be found at altoona.psu.edu/offices-divisions/academic- affairs/learning-resources-center. • Writing Commons, 127 Eiche Library Penn State Altoona’s Writing Commons helps students in all disciplines become more effective, more confident writers. Supportive, trained undergraduate peer writing consultants work one-on-one with students with writing assignments or projects in any course. More information can be found at altoona.psu.edu/writing-commons. • English ENGL 4 is required of students whose SAT writing score and previous writing experience suggest that they need more practice before entering ENGL 15. The course provides students with intensive practice in writing sentences and paragraphs and instruction in grammar, usage, and punctuation. The credits earned in ENGL 4 count toward GPA and computations of full-time status but do not count toward graduation requirements for a baccalaureate degree. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly activity in an open, honest, and responsible manner. It is a basic guiding principle for all academic activity at Penn State, and all members of the University community are expected to act in accordance with this principle. Consistent with this expectation, the University’s Code of Conduct states that all students should act with personal integrity, respect other students’ dignity, rights, and property, and help create and maintain an environment in which all can succeed. Academic integrity includes a commitment not to engage in or tolerate acts of falsification, misrepresentation, or deception. Such acts of dishonesty violate the fundamental ethical principles of the University and compromise the worth of work completed by others. To protect the rights and maintain the trust of honest students and support appropriate behavior, faculty and administrators should regularly communicate high standards of integrity and reinforce them by taking reasonable steps to anticipate and deter acts of dishonesty in all assignments. At 8