Set up a computer lab at your community college -- apart from the one where students go to print documents. For example, stock a research lab with instructions on how to access the school databases or the organized stacks of books related to topics that the students frequently research. In a language lab, provide tapes of many different languages for the students to practice, and assign an in-room tutor to be available to help with pronunciation and questions.
Each learning center can have a specific focus, whether it is writing, math or science. Hire community college students or undergraduates and graduates from a local four-year university as tutors. Peer tutoring helps the tutees to feel at ease and not as though the tutor is judging them. Such an environment helps both of the students -- those tutoring and those being tutored -- to feel and recognize that they are working together to accomplish a similar goal.
Online tutoring gives students the flexibility to receive help at times when they cannot get to campus. Set up a live online chat room where students and tutors can interact with one another to solve tutoring problems. For a writing intensive class, allow the students to email their papers to the learning center, where someone will respond back to the student within a designated amount of time that should be specified on the website.
Learning centers also provide workshops that target specific skills that students struggle with throughout the year. In a writing center, develop programs on how to write a thesis, how to organize a paper, and tips for passing a college-wide writing examination. Workshops on study skill topics are another possibility that students in all majors can utilize. Host a class on how to develop a study plan outline, or how far in advance to begin studying for exams.