Student Services
Counseling
Personal counseling is available through the LeTourneau University Counseling Center located in the Student Services Center. Counseling is for those students, faculty, and staff who may be experiencing personal/emotional difficulties, social needs, spiritual needs, or academic struggles. Services are offered at no cost.
Peer Advising Program
The peer advising program is founded on the premise of students serving students. In this program, an upper class student assists first year students by helping them become acclimated to LeTourneau University. The peer advisor provides encouragement, academic assistance, and serves to promote community on campus.
Tutoring Services
Each semester individual personal tutoring services are available to all students at no cost for up to three hours per week for most classes that are offered at the university. Tutors are recommended and/or approved by the instructor of the course. In order to receive this service, a student must complete a Request for Tutoring Service form that is available in the Office of Student Services.
In addition, there is Tutorial Instruction available for selected "historically difficult" classes at no cost to the student. Tutorial Instruction is an outside of the classroom assistance provided by a student who has successfully completed the course, who has been trained in the process of Tutorial Instruction, and who has been recommended and/or approved by the instructor of the course. Tutorial Instruction is provided at a rate of one hour for every hour in the classroom. The student is made aware of this at the beginning of each semester by the student Tutorial Instructor.
Student Health Service
The University Health Service, staffed with a part-time nurse, is equipped to handle your minor illnesses. Some over-the-counter medications and first aid supplies are available free of charge. When treatment warrants, the nurse will aid in coordinating services with a physician.
For referrals to a physician, knowledge of your health insurance local providers is necessary. In the event your family's plan does not provide coverage for you, coverage will be arranged by the University at a reasonable rate. This policy may be purchased per semester.
Career Services
The Office of Career Services assists students in the development of skills necessary for lifelong career management in a rapidly changing and global workplace. Graduate placement, cooperative education, career assessment, testing, and counseling are available to assist students in the development of their lifelong career related strategy. A variety of computer-assisted career assessment programs are available. Incoming freshmen participate in skills, interests, personality, and values assessment programs. These tools aid students in choices of academic and career pursuits. Career Services also assists students/alumni in the skills necessary for writing résumés and cover letters, along with developing interviewing techniques, researching companies, learning job search techniques, and transitioning into the world of work. Career Services offers a series of workshops and seminars to provide training and promote awareness of the career planning and job search process. Career Services also sponsors a campus recruiting program including on-campus interviews, career fairs, internship/cooperative education, and a Career Services website posting job opportunities, career fairs, and other services related to career exploration and the job search process. Please visit the Office of Career Services and learn more about the programs and how you can become involved.
One of the tools designed to assist you as you prepare for a productive career is the Cooperative Education Program. Cooperative education is an elective program that integrates classroom theory with practical experience in your chosen field to better prepare you to begin your career at a more advanced level upon graduation. During this program, you will have specific periods of attendance at the University and specified paid, evaluated, and curriculum-related or career-choice-related periods of employment.
You can pursue a cooperative education experience in one of two ways: The alternate option or the parallel option. In the alternate option you attend classes one semester and work the next. The cooperative work may be performed in your hometown or anywhere in the United States where there is a cooperating employer. This is usually done at some time between your sophomore and senior years, with a maximum of three work experiences scheduled. Students enrolling in the alternate option (COOP 3000) will have the status of full-time students during their period of work. Students enrolled in the parallel option (COOP 2000) have full-time or part-time status determined by the number of credit hours in which they are enrolled. In the parallel option you work in the Longview area from 15 to 30 hours each week in your career field. There are also internships, usually during the summer, that may be used as cooperative education experiences.
Although cooperative education experiences do not earn university credit, the experience is noted on the student's transcript and becomes a part of the permanent record.
Industrial firms and other organizations recognize the personal and academic qualification of LeTourneau University graduates in their areas of preparation. Please visit the Career Services website at http://www.letu.edu/careerservices.html for a listing of some of these organizations and firms. Many of these companies send representatives to campus to interview graduates for employment.