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64 | Faculty and Student Services and Support | NCU Faculty Handbook Northcentral University Academic Success Center (ASC) The Academic Success Center (ASC) provides personalized academic support via tiers of service, including scholarly resources, Grammarly, APA Style CENTRAL, live chat, and asynchronous and synchronous individual and group coaching. The focus of coaching is on skills and competencies rather than course deliverables. These resources are available at no additional cost to all NCU students and are based on their unique learning needs with the goal of promoting competence in written communication and quantitative reasoning. ASC Goals: The ASC's primary goal is to assist students in developing skills that strengthen their written communication and quantitative reasoning abilities. The ASC's tiers of service provide progressive levels of support to offer each student with a personalized, meaningful experience. The ASC encourages students to collaborate with coaches, peers, and various university stakeholders while building a graduate culture to support each student through program completion. Faculty are encouraged to refer students to the ASC either informally by suggesting a student visit the center or formally by submitting a collaboration form to asc@ncu.edu. Collaboration forms can be found on the ASC's Academic Coaching Services page. When the ASC receives a collaboration form, an email will be sent to the student outlining the ASC's services and the faculty member will be cc'd. Faculty are encouraged to follow up with the student to see if services were utilized. The ASC can be accessed on the homepage of NCUOne under the Center for Teaching and Learning. Faculty may contact the ASC at asc@ncu.edu for more information about the ASC's services. Dissertation Center The Dissertation Center provides both faculty and students with valuable houses resources and support materials to support students through the doctoral program and Doctoral Student Experience dissertation process. Items include handbooks, rubrics, templates, and resources for writing, conducting research, and publication. Faculty teaching doctoral courses should become familiar with the Dissertation Center and its contents so that they can direct students to it as needed. The Dissertation Center is located in the Commons, Center for Teaching and Learning link. Office of the Registrar The Office of the Registrar is the official record-keeper of the University and is responsible for maintaining the accuracy and integrity of all academic records of current and former students. The Office provides for a variety of services to current and former students and external and internal constituencies. Responsibilities, assignments, and services include but are not limited to, reviewing, evaluating, and determining basis for admission; transfer credit evaluation and application; record maintenance; transcript processing; university withdrawal and dismissal; enrollment reporting; student record verifications; grade change processing; degree conferral, diploma processing, and guiding students through the publishing process of dissertations; policy management and catalog publication; and FERPA compliance. Additionally, Office of the Registrar leadership serves as a member of various University Committees.

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