Origin
Tutoring Services Philosophy
How Tutoring Services Operate

Origin

The Academic Success Center came into physical existence in the spring of 2001, under the guidance of Dr. Joyce Simmons, the Dean of Academic development and its program director (then Tutor Coordinator) Beverley Locke. Prior to the fall of 2000, the Academic Success Center, then known as the Tutoring office, only provided tutoring in specific classes. Today the A.S.C. offers more than one form of tutoring, the most requested being individual sessions, a time when a student can meet one on one with their tutor. It was also determined after some survey of student involvement that students would also benefit from receiving some instruction in skills as time management and study skills through workshop and individual presentations.

Tutoring Services Philosophy

In the tutoring Services area of the Academic Success Center, our philosophy is to assist each student according to there specific need. For each student who comes into the office there are several areas of service which we provide:

• Tutor/ Tutee
• Drop-in
• Academic Skills Assessment
  (Time-Management, Note-taking, Study and Test-taking skills)
• Accountability

Our goal in this section of the ASC. is to accommodate each student based on their specific need of assistance. Under the four categories specific steps are taken…

How Tutoring Services Operate

• Tutor/Tutee
• Students who were recommended by a professor or who received an A+/A in a course fill out an application to tutor
• A student can contact the ASC to request a tutor. The office is open Monday through Thursday from 11:00am –5:00pm, 6:00pm-10:00pm and Friday’s 9:00am-10:00am, 11:00-3:00pm
• An ASC Assistant will process a Tutor Request Form by assigning a Tutor to a Tutee that matches the course requested
• Tutor sessions are held for one hour a week inside of the ASC

• Drop-In
• A student who can not commit to weekly tutoring sessions can drop-in on two nights of the week for assistance in Math courses or English courses
• This service is provided for students who decided that they only needed assistance with one or a few questions in the two subjects of academics

• Academic Skills Assessment (Time-Management, Note-taking, Study and Test-taking skills)
• All Students who desire assistance in this area of the Tutoring Services take the ASC assessment which shows specific areas of problem
• The next step is a meeting with the Director of the ASC in which the students schedule is evaluated

• Accountability
• Students referred by the First Year Studies Department are required to study in the ASC for an agreed upon amount of hours per week