Welcome! Academic Enrichment Services is here to support your journey to academic, professional, and personal excellence. We provide individual support for all students in the form of peer and professional tutoring, study skills support, academic coaching and motivational counseling.
Each year, Ithaca students bring new energy and unique views of what is important during their undergraduate lives. Academic achievement and professional success remains a steady priority among today’s college students and we’re here to provide optimum support during the next four years. We collaborate with Ithaca’s faculty and with our student affairs associates to provide for you essential programming and other activities key to your development during the four-year undergraduate cycle.
We are very interested in and committed to your success!
Please take a moment and review all of our programs and services and let us know how we can assist you. Have a wonderful year!
Yolanda Clarke, Director
Academic Enrichment Services
ABOUT THE AES DIRECTOR
Yolanda Clarke began as director of Academic Enrichment Services in January 2008. With her 18 years of experience in higher education with two leading institutions providing direct services to students; developing programs and services; responsibilities for program administration and via educational advocacy, Yolanda is very pleased to now be a part of Ithaca, a premier comprehensive college.
In her previous position as Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, Yolanda was responsible for chairing a committee of faculty admissions reviewers for a highly competitive, critical alumni region. In addition, she was College coordinator for the Internal Transfer Program; liaison to central admissions and coordinator for the College Cornell Days Diversity Hosting events. She was an advisor and worked with the team of Assistant Deans to review advisement policies and procedures; worked with the Counseling Center’s outreach counselor for crisis intervention; and prepared student cases for the academic records committee – a key committee of faculty reviewers charged with policy enforcement for the College. Additionally, Yolanda was a consultant and advisor for the Biology Scholars Program and a College Coordinator for the Prefreshman Summer Program. Yolanda served on numerous other advisement committees while employed at Cornell. While employed at The Pennsylvania State University, Yolanda worked with the Pennsylvania State ACT 101 and Federal TRIO programs. She is experienced with writing and peer review of federal and state grants; and with grant administration.
Yolanda’s professional affiliations include membership in the following organizations:
For personal enrichment, Yolanda is working on a second masters degree in Africana Studies at Cornell University. She is interested in wellness and epistemological development among African American college women. This interest stems from her early work with the Center for Women Students at Penn State. She earned her Masters Degree in Counselor Education at the Pennsylvania State University in 1995; and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Louisiana at Monroe in 1983.
