El Centro is a study center that provides a space for students to explore academic success via a relationship-rich educational experience. We are in the library basement, room 103A, and are equipped with a touch-screen digital whiteboard, desktops, noise-cancelling headphones, and other materials to support your studying habits. Our consultants tutor in multiple subjects and languages to help students meet their academic goals or study abroad preparation. At El Centro, students can also request academic peer mentorship to work on time management, study habits, or overall academic needs. Students typically come to El Centro to study, make friends, socialize, and lock-in on their academic success.
El Centro is inspired after Bobby Verdugo and Yoli Ríos’s commitment to a quality and enriching education for all. We model a relationship rich education approach at EKU in conjunction with faculty and staff who are devoted to student success. We believe in a student-centered environment where all students must:
Join us at El Centro to create community, become more engage on campus life, and work towards being the best student version of yourself. ¡Sí se puede!
Puente Program – A Bilingual First-Year Experience Program that supports and guides students in their transition from high school to the university. Students move in three days prior to other students to participate in faculty-led workshops that explore financial aid, life on campus, academic advising, student support resources, and more information to make your experience at EKU as enriching as possible. This is a free program for all students who wish to participate and sign up before the deadline. Apply for the Puente Program.
El Centro offers bilingual tutoring and mentoring in multiple subjects and one-to-one language consultants for students interested in study abroad or professional development. Tutoring is offered in a variety of languages including Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, etc. Additionally, El Centro offers tutoring in subject areas such as social work, business, public health, sciences, anthropology, sociology, etc.
El Centro provides a space to apply the skills learned in language courses in real-world settings through volunteering or service-learning community engagement.
El Centro also offers mentoring services where students meet once a week with a peer mentor. Each student is assigned a mentor based on major, academic, or personal needs. Within each mentoring session, students can receive help with navigating college, class advising, schedule building, networking, interview skills, e-mail best practices, applications, essays, resumes, cover letters, scholarships, etc.
El Centro offers two study areas: a quiet room upon request (110) and the main lobby (103A) with desktops set up, a digital touchscreen whiteboard, 17 tables, and a couple of whiteboards. Students can borrow markers and other supplies to aid in studying. Additionally, El Centro offers decompression supplies for hands-on crafts to help aid with stress or down time for students. Students can access all materials upon request and availability.
Crabbe Library
Room 103-A
859-622-2996
