Located on the second floor of the Bright Football Complex on the south end of Kyle Field near the Slocum Nutrition Center, the 24,550-square foot Alice and Erle Nye '59 Academic Center is the premier center of its kind in the country.
The main focus of the Nye Academic Center is to help student-athletes develop consistent study patterns by providing them with supervised quiet study areas and academic support for all student-athletes. The center has many different resources to help each student-athlete reach his/her academic goals including:
- 23 Full-time staff members housed within the academic center. This includes a student-athlete engagement coordinator, a tutor coordinator, 11 scholastic supervisors, 4 learning specialists, 2 reading specialists, a director of student-athlete engagmenet and a student-athlete engagement coordinator.
- A part-time staff that includes 50+ learning assistants and over 100 subject specific tutors.
- 36 individual and group tutoring rooms, 18 Learning labs, 2 conference rooms and a 36-seat classroom.
- Subject labs for math & writing specific walk-in tutoring sessions
- 115 desktop computers for student use located throughout the building
- 15 laptops available for check out during study hall & team travel
- TI-84 Plus and TI-30 calculators available for check out each semester