Academic Support Center

Academic Support Center

The mission of the Academic Support Center (ASC) is to provide a full service tutoring experience that cultivates student success. By fostering a supportive environment, the ASC strives to inspire students at every level of preparedness to advance, to excel, and to reach their fullest potential.

The ASC is comprised of a collaborative group of dedicated educators who strive to enhance the learning experience, and academic and professional achievement of HCC students through comprehensive services, which include: 

• Center for Academic Progress (CAP) 
  Provides tutoring and course support for intensive classes. 
• Tutoring Center 
  Provides one-on-one, drop-in, group, and online tutoring in most subject areas. 
• Writing Center (WC) 
  Provides one-on-one writing tutoring to students in all subject areas.

Schedule An Appointment

Currently, Academic Support Services are available online. Tutoring services are available in three options, E-tutoring, E-mail and Live Tutoring.

• For E-tutoring, go to www.etutoringonline.org
• For all other tutoring click here: https://housatonic.accudemia.net/login and follow the steps below:
  1. Go to https://housatonic.accudemia.net/login and log in using your BannerID and password (Tutoring2020).
  2. Make an appointment with a tutor.
     • Click New appointment
     • Choose your center (ASC or CAP) and service (Writing Center Email, STEM Live Tutoring, CAP Live Tutoring, CAP Email)
     • Choose your course
     • Choose an appointment time
  3. Once your appointment is made, you need to plan to be online at your computer or phone for that time. A tutor will email before your appointment with instructions.
  4. When it is time for your appointment, a tutor will contact you at your Housatonic Student Email address. For online tutoring you MUST use your Housatonic Student email address (for example ).
  5. For all questions about tutoring, please email the following people:

     ASC STEM Tutoring - Aliss Obeid

     ASC Writing Center - Karyn Smith

     CAP - Andrew Pelletier

Academic Support Center Staff