The Academic Assistance Center provides students with trained, certified peer tutors and a comfortable environment where learning, risk taking, and discovery can occur. Registered PLU students use the free services of the Center to develop effective study strategies and to supplement or reinforce their classroom experience. Tutoring takes place on campus, usually in the Academic Assistance Center located in Ramstad Hall. The Center for Public Service connects the PLU campus to the surrounding communities by providing opportunities for students, staff, and faculty to serve community needs as part of their university experience. Students can work with children, adults and senior citizens at the Family and Children's Center, a coalition of social service programs housed together at East Campus and coordinated by the Center for Public Service.
Students can also become involved in community work through service-learning classes.
The Center for Public Service can help students find out about these courses, available in many departments, which use service experience as an important part of the learning process. Individuals and student groups can also use the Volunteer Center, part of the Center for Public Service, to browse through listings of over 100 service opportunities on and near the PLU campus. KPLU-FM, National Public Radio KPLU at 88.5 FM is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to the University Board of Regents. PLU is the only independent university in the Northwest operating a full power NPR station. The KPLU main transmitter on West Tiger Mountain covers the Puget Sound area and translators cover the major population centers of western Washington from Bellingham to Centralia and Chehalis.