Integrated Academic Resource Center

Real academic success is built on the strength of our community. The Integrated Academic Resource Center meets students exactly where they are, bringing academic support directly into the spaces where learning happens.” 

— Wendy Sternberg, Provost 

The strongest students don’t go it alone. They study with friends, ask questions early and lean on people who know them by name. The Integrated Academic Resource Center makes that the norm for every Bucknellian.

The center brings quantitative reasoning, writing, critical reading and peer navigation into students’ daily academic lives, connecting them with faculty, advisers, professional staff and trained peers. Every student, whatever their background or high school preparation, gets the tools to persist, achieve and thrive. And because the center sees so many students across so many disciplines, it gives Bucknell an early read on the skills students will need next, today and throughout their lives. 

Confidence in every subject, for every student.

For students: Help is never far away. Peer navigators meet classmates in the spaces where they already study, while specialists build skills in quantitative reasoning, data analysis, writing, critical thinking and the ethical use of AI. Students gain more than better grades. They gain confidence and academic independence.

For Bucknell: The center brings advising and academic support together in one integrated hub, so every student knows where to turn. More than 30 peer navigators each year gain leadership experience of their own, and the University gains a forum to spot emerging needs and prepare students for what comes next.

Ready to connect

The model is designed and the partners are ready. What brings it to life is strategic investment: endowed professional positions in quantitative support and in literacy and AI fluency, plus annual funding for peer programing that puts help a hallway away.

• People & Talent: Endows professional staff positions dedicated to quantitative reasoning/data analysis and reading, writing, critical thinking and AI literacy and provides direct student wage support 
• Innovation & Programs: Equips students with core quantitative capabilities alongside modern AI fluency, ethical tech leadership and critical writing skills, bridging technical expertise with democratic and human-centered values.
• Strategic Operations Fund: Launches and sustains the Peer Navigators Program peer-to-peer initiative to drive student-led mentorship and targeted academic navigation.

What your gift makes possible

• Quantitative Support Position: $3 million.
  • Funds named professional staff positions in quantitative reasoning, data analysis and mathematical support across disciplines, opening the door to quantitative success for every student.
• Literacy Position: $3 million. 
  • Funds named specialists who advance student skills in reading, writing, critical thinking and the ethical, effective use of AI.
• Peer Navigators Program: Current use or endowed funds
  • Launches a peer-to-peer mentoring program to guide students