Academic Services works to give students the resources they need not only to succeed academically but also to flourish within a rigorous intellectual community. As such, Academic Services seeks to cultivate relationships between students and their professors, to provide a central source for information on departmental study centers and tutors, to support classroom writing instruction through the Writing Center, and to facilitate a lecture series for freshmen and upperclassmen providing practical suggestions on topics such as time management, effective research, and critical reading. Academic Services operates from the Hawkins Academic Services office in the lower level of the Knorr Center.