ACTP proudly welcomes Dr. Saundra McGuire, the Director Emerita of the Center for Academic Success and retired Assistant Vice Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry at LSU. Her book, Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies: You Can Incorporate into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation, is a Stylus Publishing bestseller. The student version of this book, Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level.

At our institute, Saundra presents on improving student learning by teaching students metacognitive learning strategies. Saundra works actively with university faculty and students to increase their understanding of the application of cognitive science and learning theory to increasing student academic performance.