The PARC offers free snacks, groceries,
school supplies, and hygiene products in
our study and recharge spaces. Check out
our donations page to find out how you can help.
The Professional Studies and Fine Arts (PSFA) Academic Resource Center (PARC) advances student success and equity by providing a learning community in which PSFA students collaborate with trained educators to achieve their learning goals. By strengthening their cognitive strategies, particularly metacognitive thinking, PARC students become confident, skillful learners.
Vision
The Professional Studies and Fine Arts Academic Resource Center (PARC) strives to be an affirming community for the culturally and educationally diverse students in the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts and ROTC where they can maximize their learning; dream big; connect with peers, caring staff, and campus resources; and engage in meaningful self-reflection as they work to achieve their learning goals.
Core Values
We Value
Belonging: Every PSFA student experiences community at SDSU.
Student agency: Students are the experts about themselves, not us; we are collaborators.
Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (JEDI): We see and affirm students’ lived experiences, which shape our work.
Responsibility: We hold ourselves to the highest standard as educators, utilizing research-based or data-informed learning theory and pedagogies in all interactions with students.
Respect: We honor and maintain student confidentiality. We respect our students’ investment in their education.
Collaboration: We work in collaboration with other academic support programs on campus, learning assistance programs at other schools, and professional organizations in the field of learning assistance, including member organizations in the Council for Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations (CLADEA).
Adaptability: We prize creativity, innovation, and problem-solving, keeping in clear focus our commitment to the students we serve.
North PARC North PARC: PSFA 200 South PARC South PARC: Adams-Humanities 4231
Discord
We also have a virtual learning center on Discord that SDSU community members are welcome to join! On our Discord, students can hangout, get help making tutoring or coaching appointments from our welcome desk staff, and to ask quick questions of our tutors and learning coaches.
