Student Resources

Links to resources on learning, research, and student life

Who's your Advisor?

English Majors and Minors- Check the below link to see who your advisor will be as of Spring 2025 and onward!

LinkedIn Learning for Students (Use York network account to log in)
Tutorial videos on a diverse range of applications including Adobe Creative Suite and Office 365 suite such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SPSS, EndNote, etc. Content covers a wide range of subjects including "soft skills", coding, leadership development, business writing, and creativity.
CUNY Academic Commons
Build your own websites for free with a non-proprietary Wordpress installation (i.e. ad free). You can have blogs, portfolios, and join discussion groups.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Read information, statistics, background, and data about pay on various occupations.

Oxford English Dictionary
A reliable and regularly updated online dictionary with useful historical contexts and examples for each work. Requires log in with your York College barcode (back of your ID) if using outside of campus.

New York Public Library Digital Collections
Contains over 600,000 digitized items from the collections of the New York Public Library. According to the NYPL: "this site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more."
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Project Gutenberg
A digital collection of over 75,000 e-books in the Public Domain. Free to use, download, and read.
Chronicle of Higher Education
Articles on teaching and research at the college level.
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Useful for any literature classes! Includes information on theoretical and analytical terms throughout history, "such as feminism, and schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, and crime fiction ... It includes extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms."

Collaborative Learning Center
The York College Collaborative Learning Center provides writing tutoring for all York College students. Tutors work with students on all aspects of the writing process.
Counseling Center
The Counseling Center provides free, confidential counseling to help students overcome obstacles to their educational success.
Career Services
Career Services connects your academic journey with real-world opportunities. Explore jobs, internships, and resources tailored just for you.
Center for Students with Disabilities
CSD offers a supportive and inclusive college experience for students with disabilities, providing reasonable accommodations and promoting disability rights.