What Does the ACE Offer?
The Academic Center for Excellence (ACE) is dedicated to helping Naugatuck Valley Community College students achieve their goal of academic success. The ACE is your free on-campus resource providing a number of services to help you, including:
- Math Lab
- Writing Center
- ESL tutoring
- computers
- drop-in homework help
- make-up testing location
- tip sheets on college survival skills
- study area
- meeting space
- academic skills workshops
- e-Tutoring
- Modified supplemental instruction classrooms (M-SI space)
- ask tutors questions
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
As soon as possible! Don't wait until the day (or day before) a paper is due or your test is held to get the help you need. You may find the content more difficult than you thought or that there aren't tutors available at the time you need.
Bring a copy of the assignment or problem(s), your book, any work you have done, and some good questions for the tutor.
Nothing! The ACE is free to all full-time and part-time credit students.
You don't need an appointment to meet with a tutor, just stop by the ACE or on the Waterbury Campus call 203-575-8073 to meet with a tutor. For the Danbury Campus ACE call 203.437.9699
You may receive help on a drop-in basis at any time during posted hours. See the subject-specific tutoring page for more information on our Writing Center and Math Lab.
mSI is the lab portion of the following developmental English and Math courses:
- ENG 096T
- ENG 096
- MAT 095
- MAT 136
Similar to science labs, students earn a grade for their participation and work completed in the computer platforms used in these mSI lab sessions. For more information on mSI, please download the mSI fact sheet or go the mSI web page.
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