Academic Support Academic Advising Each graduate student will be assigned a faculty academic advisor in his/her discipline. The advisor serves as a mentor and assists the student with enrollment and academic issues as they arise. Upon acceptance into the Graduate School, the faculty advisor will discuss with the student course options for the upcoming terms. Student Technology Services Students are provided and required to use an IW student email account. More information is available from Information Technology Services, http://www.iw.edu/academics/campus-technology/. Students are provided a secure account to the student portal. The student should carefully guard credentials that allow access to various university systems; further, the student may be held responsible for all activity performed using his/her credentials. Library (http://www.iw.edu/academics/library/) The mission of Chadwick Library is to support the educational goals of Iowa Wesleyan University by providing collections, services, facilities and staff to meet the needs of the Iowa Wesleyan University academic community. Chadwick Library is open seven days a week. Access to the library collection is provided through Wesley, the library’s online catalog. Links to electronic books, periodical databases, discipline-related web sites, and other online resources are provided through the Chadwick Library home page (http://chadwick.IWU.edu/). Off-campus students can access these same resources with a campus network id and password from the Iowa Wesleyan ITS office. Along with locally owned resources, the collections of 17,000 other libraries throughout the world are accessible through the Library’s membership in OCLC, an international cataloging and interlibrary loan network. Through OCLC’s FirstSearch and through access to the Internet, librarians and patrons have access to research databases beyond the Library’s walls.
Computing Resources Several computer labs serve as instructional laboratories and general purpose computer facilities for students. The two computer labs located in Science Hall 114 and Chadwick Library are the largest on campus and serve the largest number of students. Other labs are located in the OASIS, Art Program area, Chemistry area, Music area, Nursing area and Science Hall 111. All lab computers have Internet access, printing capability and software such as Microsoft Office. Rehabilitation and American Disabilities Acts (ADA) No qualified individual with a documented disability shall be excluded from participation in, denied benefits or, of otherwise subjected to discrimination in any of Iowa Wesleyan University’s programs, courses, services and/or activities in compliance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Requests for reasonable accommodations in programs, courses, services and/or activities requires IW Graduate Catalog 2016-17 | 12