Student resources

For my students

• Office hours.
• Letters of recommendation.
• Classes I'm teaching (current and upcoming).
• Past courses including syllabi and course evaluations.
• TTU linguistics:
  • Undergraduate minor in linguistics.
  • Graduate certificate in linguistics.
• How-tos for various tasks like typing in IPA and drawing syntax trees
• Books you can borrow from me.

Mental health and well-being

• TTU Student Counseling Center: (806) 742-3674. Provides confidential support for students by licensed mental health care providers.
  Reach them by email at studentcounselingcenter@ttu.edu or in person on the second floor of the Student Wellness Center (corner of Flint Ave. & Main St.), room 201.
• TTU Crisis HelpLine: (806) 742-5555. Available 24/7/365 to assist students experiencing suicidal thoughts, mental health crises, sexual assault, and interpersonal violence.
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. If you or someone you know is in crisis or is actively contemplating self-harm, call or text 988 for immediate help.
• Therapy Assistance Online. Online library of behavioral health resources.
• Voice of Hope Lubbock Rape Crisis Center: (806)763-7273. 24-hour hotline providing support for survivors of sexual violence.
• TTU Risk, Intervention, Safety and Education (RISE) Office: (806) 742-2110. Provides a range of resources and support options focused on prevention education and student wellness.
• TTU Center for Collegiate Recovery Communities: (806) 742-2891. Supports students in recovery from alcohol, drugs, and behavioral addictions
• Raider Red’s Food Pantry: (806) 742-2984. Provides students with short-term access to supplemental food.

Academic resources

• TTU Student Disability Services: (806) 742-2405; sds@ttu.edu.
• TTU Writing Center. Provides consultations for students on class assignments and other writing projects (resumes, job applications, etc).
• TTU Learning Center. Free peer tutoring for TTU students.
• TTU Academic calendars. When is spring break? When does registration start for next semester?

Diversity and inclusive campus resources

• TTU Student Engagement office. Contact this office for was that TTU can support your success in college: (806) 742-5928.
• TTU Hispanic Service Institution (HSI) programs and initiatives.
• TTU personal identification changes . Information about changing your name in university systems. (Be aware: there are separate processes for legal, chosen, and preferred first names.)
• List of single-user restrooms on campus (updated Feb. 2026)

Useful TTU offices

• TTU Student Engagement office. Contact this office for ways that TTU can support your success in college: (806) 742-5928.
• TTU Hispanic Service Institution (HSI) programs and initiatives.
• TTU Office of the Dean of Students: (806) 742-2984. Provides support for non-academic issues such as family emergencies.
• Arts and Sciences Office of Student Success: (806) 742-4286. Helps students achieve their academic, personal, and professional goals through proactive support, resources, and guidance.
• Student Legal Services: (806) 742-3289. Provides legal advice and limited representation for students dealing with legal issues including legal name/gender changes, landlord/tenant disputes, and notary services.
• Office for Student Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct/Title IX Coordinator: (806) 742-7233. Coordinates response, investigations, and processes related to sexual violence, discrimination, and harassment. Also coordinates assistance for students navigating pregnancy and childbirth.

Free software for TTU students

• Free and discounted software for TTU students.
• More discounted software for TTU students.

Software for linguistics

All of the following are available for free:

• Praat (acoustic analysis). The most popular software for linguists doing phonetic analysis. See also Will Styler's fantastic guide, Using Praat for linguistic research.
• Zotero (bibliography management). Manage your references and articles, keep track of your PDFs.
• PsychoPy (experiment design). Create and run experiments to test your hypotheses. Has tools for online experiment, too.
• R (statistical analysis). Requires some knowledge of programming, but the flexibility you can achieve is worth it. (See also the RStudio IDE.)
• Audacity (audio recording). An easy way to record audio onto your computer.
• Using IPA fonts on macOS.
• TreeForm (drawing syntaxctic trees). The interface is a little fiddly, but does not require bracket notation.
• jsSyntaxTree (drawing syntactic trees). (Formerly phpSyntaxTree.) Requires bracket notation.

Applying to grad school

• PINE Lab graduate school application resources. (Specifically for psychology programs, but much of the advice generalizes to other fields).
• Shigeto Kawahara's tips for Applying to graduate school. (Specifically for linguistics and speech pathology).