The primary aim of the reading center at Brigham Young University (Utah) is to teach typical university students critical reading skills, not just to work with students needing remedial or basic help. The reading center also serves as a resource for teachers in all disciplines who want help in recognizing and evaluating good reading, or who want suggestions about improving the literacy skills necessary to their discipline. In order to read critically, the student must first understand the material accurately. The students are taught to recognize the structure and organization of the reading selections--the main ideas and how they are supported. When the students have identified the thesis or main idea and the support, they use interpretation skills to understand the author's ideas and logical evaluation to assess the soundness and relevance of these ideas. An internship program provides the reading center with tutors, who must have worked in the center for a semester for two hours of upper-division credit before they are hired. Since the reading and writing centers work together, functioning as support for the English department, tutors often work for both centers demonstrating for students the link between good reading and good writing. Though the reading center focuses primarily on the freshman English curriculum, its services are used by all levels of students and faculty across the university. The goal of both the reading center and the English department is to teach students to read with their minds--to think critically, accurately, and with depth of understanding. (SRT)