International College Learning Center Association

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Statement of Purpose

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As an official publication of the International College Learning Center Association (ICLCA), The Learning Assistance Review (TLAR) seeks to foster communication among higher education learning center professionals. Its audience includes learning center administrators, teaching staff, professional or student worker tutors, consultants, mentors, faculty members, and administrators interested in improving post-secondary students' learning skills. TLAR is available free of charge to all ICLCA members.

ICLCA defines a learning center at higher education institutions as interactive, academic spaces that reinforce and extend student learning in physical and virtual environments. A variety of comprehensive support services and programs are offered in these environments to enhance student academic success, retention, and completion rates by applying best practices, student learning theories, and addressing student-learning needs from multiple pedagogical perspectives.

The journal is published four times a year. All submissions are subject to a masked, double-blind review process. Administrators use their published work to continue the growth and development of the learning commons space on campus. In contrast, faculty may use their publications toward promotion and tenure at institutions where student success initiatives are rewarded as part of the process.

Meet the Editor

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Michael Frizell

Michael Frizell is the Director of Student Learning Services at Missouri State University. In this position, he helped lead a team that developed the Bear CLAW (Center for Learning and Writing), growing it from a standalone Writing Center to a dynamic modern learning center. Since 2021, he has served as the editor of The Learning Assistance Review, the peer-reviewed journal of the International College Learning Center Association. He also edited the book Learning Centers in the 21st Century. During the height of the COVID-19 crisis, Frizell collected the stories of learning center leaders across the country into the book Rising to the Challenge: Navigating COVID-19 as Higher Education Learning Center Leaders. He has been ICLCA's corresponding secretary as president twice. He is also on the editorial team for RiLADE and serves as Vice Chair of the Council of Learning and Developmental Education Associations. In addition, he is an ICLCA Certified Learning Center Professional, Level IV (Lifetime), and a newly-appointed CLADEA Fellow. He is a prolific speaker, presenting hundreds of workshops and informative speeches, guest-starring in podcasts, radio and television shows, and more. As a writer for TidalWave Comics, he has written over 100 comic books based on famous people. Recent publications include biographies of Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Selena, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Travis Kelce, and Stacey Abrams. His fiction work includes Stormy Daniels: Space Force and The Fantasy World of Bettie Page, featuring the authorized likenesses of the actresses. Frizell's graphic novel Bender (now out of print) explored the backstory of America's first serial killer family from the Midwest. It was serialized in Saddlebag Dispatches magazine, collected in 2018 in one volume, and featured on many true crime podcasts. Last year, he was featured on All Things Considered for his comic book biography of basketball player Brittney Griner.

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