Academic Advising
Franklin & Marshall College emphasizes an approach to advising that takes seriously the College’s mission to foster in its students a love of learning, to educate them about the natural, social and cultural worlds in which we live, and to encourage them to become citizens who contribute productively to their professions, communities and world. Academic advisers guide students as they learn to make decisions about intellectual interests, course selection, a Major and ultimately, the meaning of a liberal arts education.
Faculty members from across the curriculum advise incoming students. Faculty in the academic departments advise their majors as well as offer advice to all students about pursuing graduate study in their disciplines. The College views academic advising as a natural extension of the faculty’s teaching role, and it is supplemented and supported by College House Dons and the Director of Student Success. Health professions advising and legal professions advising are also available. More information about these special advising options can be found at www.fandm.edu/academics/student-resources/academic-advising.
The Hub
Student Accessibility Services
In accordance with equal education opportunity laws, Franklin & Marshall College provides reasonable academic accommodations for students whose disabilities limit their participation in academic programs for which they are qualified. Students are required to notify the Office of Student Accessibility Services if they will need special services or accommodations in the classroom or if they want faculty, academic advisers, or administrative offices notified of a disability and/or disability accommodation. Reasonable academic accommodations for students with disabilities are determined on an individual basis utilizing the required documentation of the disability.
The Writing Center
The Writing Center provides assistance for students working on college writing assignments and oral presentations through one-on-one tutorials and, at the request of faculty, in-class writing workshops. The Center’s trained staff of student writing assistants, mostly juniors and seniors, represents a wide range of majors and career interests. Students should prepare for a conference by bringing all available materials: any data being used, a rough plan or formal outline, a few sketchedout paragraphs, a complete paper, or even just the assignment itself. Writing assistants can help you at any stage of the writing process! Although assistants will not edit a paper, they can help writers recognize errors and make the necessary changes.
The Center for Career and Professional Development
As part of its mission to provide a world-class liberal arts education that prepares students for lives of meaning and success beyond college, Franklin & Marshall has transformed the traditional concept of “career services” by creating the Center for Career and Professional Development, which engages over 90% of the entire student body and thousands of alumni yearly and prepares them for success in their lives and careers beyond college by:
- Recognize and articulate their unique strengths, challenges and experiences;
- Helping them explore and clarify potential career pathways;
- Exposing them to extraordinary opportunities;
- Preparing them to compete for the opportunities they seek; and
- Supporting their trajectories of success after graduation
The Libraries
The College Library offers 400,000 books, 2 million+ ebooks, 250+ databases and full text resources - 5000+ dvds, 100,000+ streaming films, and 60,000+ online/print publications, all licensed for use by current students, staff and faculty. We also provide quick lending services to access material from other libraries.
Library employees focus on access and research, supporting the work of both students and faculty. Research librarians are available in person, by email, chat, text, phone or appointments for individual or group research appointments, virtual or in-person. Librarians provide in-class instruction and assistance, partnering with introductory and advanced classes.
Both libraries offer open, social study spaces, reservable group study rooms and quiet spaces upstairs, along with Macs/ PCs, networked printing, scanners and more.
The Shadek-Fackenthal Library (SFL) covers the Humanities, Social Sciences and Fine Arts, and features several updated spaces - the Library Classroom, the SparkSpace and a project based learning space, along with 3D and poster printing in the Spark Lab. SFL is open later during the last two weeks of each semester, and also offers the Information Desk/Research Office, staffed and ready to help with simple or complex questions.
The Martin Library of the Sciences: covers Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth & Environment, Health Sciences Information Science, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology and is also the home of the College’s Archives & Special Collections. It is also the home of ITS’s Tech Lending Center.
All resources can be found at library.fandm.edu, and questions can be asked anytime at ask.us@fandm.edu
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