Seven Steps to Success at College  (A one-page handout with advice for any student starting college)

St. Olaf Writing Desk  (A link to the campus writing center, a team of trained peer tutors who offer reader feedback and writing support to any St. Olaf student.)

Online Writing Labs — Purdue University and Excelsior College

St. Olaf Speaking Space  (A link to to the campus speaking center, a team of trained peer tutors who offer feedback and practice with presentation, discussion and conversation skills to any St. Olaf student.)

Conversation Partners  (Trained peer tutors who meet one-on-one with students looking for personalized support with verbal language skills and cultural adjustment. For more information, please make an appointment with Anne Berry.)

Current International Students (A link to a page designed by International students for international students with resources of all kinds)

International Student Employment (a link to a page with information about being employed on campus as an international student)

International Friendship Program  (Information about a cross-cultural exchange program that connects members of the local community with 1st- and 2nd-year international students)

Learning to Join the Conversation  (A Prezi that shows the steps we take when we join academic conversations — small and large, spoken and written)

What Is Your Conversational Style: Bowling, Rugby or Basketball?  (A five-minute interview with Roseanne Skirble that summarizes the sports metaphor for conversational style)

Career Resources for International Students  (A link to the Piper Center’s list of resources for international students)

If you can’t find what you’re looking for, please let us know!

Extending exam time and providing verbal clarification of exam questions for first- and
second-year multilingual students is a Good-Will Policy at St. Olaf. It is solely
the professor’s discretion whether to provide time-and-a-half for exams for a student who
is still developing fluency in writing in English.

This Good-Will Policy reflects research that shows that writing is the last skill in which multilingual
students become fluent. The Good-Will Policy also reflects that students are adjusting culturally
as much as they are linguistically during their first two years at St. Olaf.

• Extra exam time and verbal clarification of exam questions would be considered
  appropriate if a student could “show what they know” if given a little more time to
  process in English.
• Please understand that the decision to allow extra time and provide verbal clarification
  for multilingual students rests entirely with you, the professor.
• Accommodations for multilingual students are not legally required; this is a procedure of good-will.
• A letter of advocacy from Center for Advising and Academic Support is not required nor will be provided.
• Whenever possible, if granted extra exam time, a multilingual student should take the exam
  in the same room as the rest of the students, and either begin early or stay late in that
  room, or finish in the professor’s office. Center for Advising and Academic Support does not provide
  alternate testing rooms for multilingual students.
• After the first two years, multilingual students are expected to complete exams under normal
  conditions as part of meeting the learning outcomes of a St. Olaf education.