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Get Ready for Finals
Finals are just around the corner, Beavers! The last day of regular instruction is Friday, May 12. Final exams will be held from Friday, May 12, through Thursday, May 18. View the final exam schedule and check with your instructors to confirm your exam day/time.
We’ve put together a list of tips to help you get ready for your finals and take your final test.
Pre-Test
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Access online tutoring support
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Have a final paper or project with a lot of writing? The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) can help support you!
- If available, take a practice exam
- Be prepared – study class materials
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Determine when you will take your final exams
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Your physical and mental health is important. Don’t forget that as a student you have access to TimelyCare with 24/7 mental and medical virtual care for students.
Taking the Test
- If you’re taking a test for an online class:
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Find a quiet test-taking spot with minimal distractions and check your computer to make sure the location has adequate internet. Technical problems? Don’t panic. Contact your instructor immediately detailing the exact problem.
- Don’t leave the test page – you may lose your work
- Clear your mind before you get started: put both feet flat on the floor, sit up straight, take a slow deep breath (or two or three), and begin!
- Plan your allotted time – keep your eye on the clock
- Give yourself time to check your work before turning it in
Best of luck on your final exams – you've got this! And remember, summer is almost here.
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Textbook Buyback and Rental Returns
Sell Your Textbooks
At the end of each term (or whenever you no longer need the book), the college bookstore will buy back textbooks based on the book’s current market value and if the book is scheduled to be used by an instructor next term.
You can sell back your books in one of two ways:
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Online via the bookstore's partner website, ValoreBooks; or
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In-person at the Bookstore – view store hours and sell back FAQs
Return Textbook Rentals
If you rented textbooks this semester from the bookstore, be sure to return them by the return date on your receipt or packing slip. Learn more about book rentals on the FAQ page.
You can return your books in one of two ways:
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In-person at the ARC Bookstore – view store hours
- Ship your rentals to the store, using the shipping carrier of your choice.
Note: Shipping is at your expense.
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Sign in to your bookstore account using the same email address you provided at the register in-store or entered when you rented online. Note: If you don’t know your password, that’s OK – just click “Forgot Password” to reset.
- Once you’ve signed in, you will be navigated to the Rentals page to view your Rental Account Information and Rental History.
- Click “Return all Rentals by Mail” and follow the steps to print your packing slip.
- Print your packing slip, and include it with your rental shipment. Your packing slip is crucial to include in your box – it identifies you, what you’re returning, and where to send your rentals.
For questions, please contact the ARC Bookstore at arcbookstore@losrios.edu or
(916) 484-8111.
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Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental health is an incredibly important part of overall health. We would like to encourage all of our students, faculty, and staff to practice self-care and mental wellness in honor of the national observance of May as Mental Health Awareness Month.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, you can access immediate support by calling 911 or through the:
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Call 988
- Crisis Text Line: Text Courage to 74174
- County Crisis Hotline: (916) 732-3637
- Suicide Crisis Line: (916) 368-3111
College Resources
Everyone deserves care and support, at American River College we have many different resources available including:
There’s an App for That
Mental health apps are designed to help users improve their emotional well-being, become more mindful, and address common mental health issues. Although the following tools can all help improve your mental health and reduce stress and anxiety, please note that none of them are intended to be used as an alternative to a therapist or other mental health professionals.
Consider downloading the following (note: free versions are available but some may require additional purchases for premium content):
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Happify: Happify uses games to boost your mood. The activities were developed with positive psychology techniques and CBT interventions.
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Insight Timer: Insight Timer offers guided meditations, music tracks and discussion groups/community.
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Mindshift: Was created to help develop skills to manage anxiety. Features include short meditations, thought journals, coping cards, and activities to face fears, change beliefs, and develop healthy habits.
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Worry Watch: Worry Watch offers guided anxiety journaling and coping techniques. The app also offers a mood tracker and positive reinforcements.
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I am Sober: I Am Sober is useful for quitting alcohol. It encourages you to identify triggers, recognize patterns, and develop healthy habits to meet your goals and achieve sobriety. It offers a withdrawal timeline so you can learn what to expect.
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iBreathe: Introduces breathing exercises to help reduce stress.
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May 9 is National Fentanyl Awareness Day
Fentanyl is involved in more deaths of Americans under 50 than any cause of death, including heart disease, cancer, homicide, suicide, and other accidents. Illicit fentanyl is driving the recent increase in US drug overdose deaths. It is odorless, tasteless, extremely potent, and used to make fake pills disguised as Oxycontin, Percocet, and Xanax. You can’t tell which pills contain a lethal amount of fentanyl.
Learn more at fentanylawarenessday.org and spread the word to save a life.
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Call Out for Interviews with LGBTQ2IAA+ Community College Students! | |
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Professor Sara Smith at American River College is seeking queer and trans community college students to interview for her oral history project. She is conducting the interviews in the spring, summer and fall of 2023. They are being recorded at Sacramento City College, though there is some flexibility about location, depending on student needs. If interested in being interviewed or if you have questions, email her at sara.smith@arc.losrios.edu.
The interviews are part of a larger project intended to help California’s community colleges better attend to the needs of queer and trans students, particularly students from more marginalized backgrounds – students of color, poor and working-class students, trans and non-binary students, and disabled queer and trans students.
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Model United Nations Club Wins Awards | |
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ARC’s Model United Nations (MUN) club attended the 72nd session of the Model United Nations of the Far West Conference, the 2nd oldest MUN Conference in the US, where they competed against 4-year Universities and other Community Colleges.
This year, 13 students were on the country teams of Lithuania and New Zealand where they debated specific issues of United Nations committees and tried to get resolutions passed on important issues. The theme this year was A Foree For Good: Global Health and Technology for a Sustainable Future.
The New Zealand delegation won an Award and Practice of Diplomacy and the delegates in the 3rd Committee, Spencer Owen (Luthiana) and Juliana Elliot-Beckett (New Zeland), won Outstanding Resolution for their work in Committee.
Congratulations Beavers!
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Integration Bee Top 5!
The ARC Mathematics Department hosted the 9th annual Integration Bee competition on April 28. Join us in congratulating the 2023 Top 5 finishers!
- 1st: Swechha Shrestha
- 2nd: Gregor Herda
- 3rd: Sam van der Veen
- Tied 4th/5th: Luke Auyeng and Esther Richardson
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Survey Winners!
Thank you to everyone who participated in the recent web-based survey related to the future of on-campus dining. We are thrilled to announce that 7,406 students, faculty, and staff engaged in the survey, providing invaluable information about our community’s diversity of needs and preferences that we are relying upon to plan and implement new and improved on-campus food service at each of our member institutions.
Congratulations to the seven lucky campus community members who completed the survey and were selected as winners of the participation incentive prizes. The winners have all been selected and notified. We greatly appreciate your participation!
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Want to be a Fall Tutor?
Minimum Qualifications
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Take LRC300 (offered this summer!)
- Complete class being tutored with a B or higher
- Complete an interview with the faculty coordinator
Benefits
- Paid position on campus
- Convenient location and hours you can work around your schedule
- Reinforcing subject materials through tutoring to help you become a professional in that subject
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X-Sale!
It's that time of year... yes, I know the end of the semester and you know what that means? It is X-SALE time!
Tues., May 9, and Wed., May 10
10 am to 2 pm
Location: Outside of the ceramic lab.
Just in time for Mother's Day. We will also be raising money for the kitties on campus. Cash and check only.
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23-4 Fire Academy Application Period Now Open! | |
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Interested in pursuing a career in firefighting? The ARC Basic Firefighter Academy starts Monday, August 7, 2023 and ends Friday, December 15, 2023 and provides high-quality training to prepare you to begin or further your fire career!
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