Center for Learning offers students study resources
College students spend countless hours of class time taking notes, making presentations, and taking tests. Outside of class, they’re often researching, reading, and writing.
But what if students feel that inadequate study skills are holding them back? Or that test anxiety (or term-paper anxiety) causes them to avoid studying all together?
The Center for Learning has them covered — whether students want to join a study table (free!) during the week with a peer tutor, browse and use a cornucopia of study-skills resources on a Sunday afternoon, or hire a private tutor (cost varies). One-on-one academic coaching is also available to help students with reading strategies, time management, note taking, and more.
The center also has tutoring available for specific courses, including accounting, chemistry, biology, and the languages French, Spanish, and Chinese.
“The Center for Learning is a campus resource every student can use — whether your student is struggling in class or wants to improve current test scores, ” says Niki Amarantides, director of the Center for Learning.
The Center for Learning is located in lower Moyer Hall, open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m., and can be reached at cfl@spu.edu or 206-281-2475.
Video: Sacred Sounds of Christmas
Tickets are on sale now for the 2018 Sacred Sounds of Christmas.
For nearly 20 years, this concert has featured SPU’s Music Department's nationally recognized student and faculty musicians playing the best of sacred Advent music from around the world. Tickets sell out for this event. Find information about group discounts or buy your tickets from the Benaroya Hall box office today.
This year’s concert is Sunday, November 25, 7 p.m., at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, 200 University Avenue, Seattle.
SPU Voices: Favorite downtown spots for students
Preparing for a career in medicine or biological sciences is hard work. But in the midst of all that studying, it’s important to set aside time to have fun. SPU Voices
caught up with premed students in Seattle Pacific’s BioCORE Scholars program as they explored downtown Seattle after class last spring. What downtown spots do they recommend for students like yours to explore?
Find out here.
Time to apply for 2019–20 financial aid
Students must submit a new FAFSA each academic year, and families can already begin applying for financial aid for the 2019–20 academic year. The 2019–20 FAFSA will ask families and students for their 2017 tax and income information, as well as current investment and asset information as of the date the FAFSA is filed. To receive the best possible financial aid offer, submit your student’s FAFSA as soon as possible after October 1 of each year that your student will attend Seattle Pacific University.
The priority deadline for Early Action first-time freshmen is November 1, 2018; the deadline for regular first-time freshmen is March 1, 2019; Early Action new transfers' deadline is April 1, 2019; and the deadline for new transfers is July 1, 2019. Current SPU students continuing their studies in 2019–20 should file the FAFSA by April 1, 2019.
For more information about the FAFSA process, please visit How to Apply for Aid on the Students Financial Services website.
You can also check out these videos from the U.S. Department of Education:
Take your next career step with an MBA from SPU
If you’re considering a next step in your career, you may want to know that you can take up to three pre-MBA core courses as a pre-qualified student in SPU’s flexible MBA program. Geared toward working professionals, our graduate business curriculum is grounded on ethics and values, drawing on our Christian heritage. In fact, we emphasized an ethics-based approach long before it was popular to do so. Find out more about our flexible Master of Business Administration.
Faculty spotlight: Wall-Sheffler’s study featured in The New York Times
Professor of Biology Cara Wall-Scheffler recently had her research featured about how geographic location and gender make a difference in how men and women walk in The New York Times. Explained the reporter: “Recently, Cara Wall-Scheffler, a professor of biology at Seattle Pacific University who has long been interested in the differences between how men and women move, began to wonder to what extent these interpersonal effects on walking pace might also be cultural.” Read the article.
Video: 2018 Day of Common Learning
The Seattle Pacific community gathered in Royal Brougham Pavilion in mid October to hear this year’s Day of Common Learning speaker A.J. Swoboda’s keynote address, “Green Jesus: Embracing a Sustainable Faith.” You can watch the lecture by Swoboda, a professor, author, and pastor here.
Upcoming events
All Choirs Concert
Friday, November 2
7:30 p.m. | First Free Methodist Church, 3200 Third Ave. W., Seattle
Enjoy an evening of choral music from the Chamber and Concert Choirs, as well as the Women’s Choir. This concert will also be livestreamed.
Jazz/Percussion Concert
Tuesday, November 6
7:30 p.m. | First Free Methodist Church, 3200 Third Ave. W., Seattle
SPU’s Jazz Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble share the stage and feature highlights of modern percussion and jazz music, in styles ranging from traditional to bebop to contemporary. This concert will also be livestreamed.
Instrumental Concert
Friday, November 9
7:30 p.m. | First Free Methodist Church, 3200 Third Ave. W., Seattle
SPU Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the SPU Symphony Orchestra explore a variety of classical works, and offer a sneak preview of some of the pieces to be featured at this year's Sacred Sounds of Christmas. This concert will also be livestreamed.
No Echo Comes Back: Celebrating the Life of Virginia Woolf
Wednesday, November 14
7:30 p.m. | Nickerson Studios, 340 W. Nickerson St., Seattle
This art-song recital explores major themes from Virginia Woolf’s writing through the music of selected American composers, including Dominick Argento’s “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf,” and Leonard Bernstein’s “I Hate Music!”
“Love and Information”
November 8–10; November 15–17 | 7:30 p.m.
November 17 | 1 p.m. matinee
$15 adults / $12 students and seniors
McKinley Hall
In dozens of scenes with hundreds of characters, English playwright Caryl Churchill brings us face to face with the complex realities of our time. The audience will choose the order of vignettes each night; no two shows will be the same. Visit the Box Office for tickets.
Veterans Day
Monday, November 12 (observed)
No classes.
Thanksgiving
Thursday–Friday, November 22–23
No classes.