Advising, Services + Resources

Trinity IDP provides advising and services geared to adult learners, together with full access to all of Trinity’s academic resources.


Advising

Because entering IDP students are transitioning to academic life at Trinity, we have created a comprehensive advising system. Each new student is assigned a faculty adviser who is a member of the IDP Council, which makes all IDP admissions decisions. Your faculty adviser will be familiar with your background from the admissions process and will help you identify the resources you need to succeed at Trinity. Your adviser will oversee your academic progress until you choose a major, when you will have an adviser from your major department. In addition, you will have a current IDP student as a peer mentor.


IDP-only Services  

  • Ready access to the IDP faculty Director and Assistant Director for advice and assistance.
  • A Research and Instructional Librarian especially for IDP students.
  • ​Designated staff members in the financial aid, registrar’s, and career services offices to serve the particular needs of IDP students.
​Financial Aid Staff Member
Carolyn LeGeyt​
Senior Associate Director, Financial Aid
    

Academic Resources

  • The Raether Library and Information Technology Center features one of New England’s largest collegiate libraries with even wider online access through a library consortium.

    Library Staff Member
    Erin Valentino
    Research and Instruction Librarian
    erin.valentino@trincoll.edu​              ​​

     

  • The Information Technology Center supports students’ academic work through the use of computing and technology.  

  • The Aetna Quantitative Center, commonly referred to as the Math Center, offers peer tutoring along with other services. 

  • The Writing Center provides tutoring by specially trained students known as writing associates.

  • Career Services is the source for a range of tools and services to help students prepare for post-Trinity careers. An IDP liaison focuses on career planning for adult students.
​Career Services Staff Member
Terry McNamara
Assistant Director, Alumni Career Services and Program Development​
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Registrar Staff Member
Linda Gilbert
Associate Registrar
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Jan Neuberger ’13

English Major with a concentration in Creative Writing
IDPA President
 
I don’t think there possibly could have been a better immersion than the IDP Transitional Seminar. The course was designed with great efficiency and economy to ensure that those of us just re-starting our educations (in my case, after 36 years!) would have an awareness of all the intellectual, practical, and technical skills Trinity would call for as we went forward in our program. Knowing there is a community of people at Trinity with whom I have in common years of adult experience and all the complications and rewards that go with them is a gigantic plus. Returning to school as a 56-year-old would have seemed much more daunting without the support system that the IDP program provides.