Student Tribune
Tutoring Updates
Beginning in fall semester 2018, academic tutoring will be housed in an
updated, centralized location at Brighton Campus. The Writing Center, the
Center for Academic Reading, and the Academic Foundations Learning Center will
be co-located in rooms 11-209, 11-211, and 11-113. This space will be called
the Tutoring and Academic Assistance Center, or TAAC.
In addition, within the Learning Commons, the tutoring space will be called
the Tutoring and Academic Assistance Center.
Under a centralized organizational structure, which will be overseen by the
Director of Learning Support Systems (Pat Kennedy's future replacement), tutors
will be trained using best practices, personnel can be consolidated thus
providing more opportunity for expanded tutoring hours, and students, faculty
and staff will know where to direct students to tutoring in a myriad of
subjects.
New personnel titles, in addition to Professional Tutors, will include Peer
and Paraprofessional Tutors, Academic Coaches and Writing Consultants. Academic
Coaches will work with students to help them to develop effective reading and
learning strategies and to become self-regulated learners. The role of the
Coach is to help the student improve academically by identifying strengths and
weaknesses and designing appropriate activities to improve their learning.
Academic Coaches can help any student who comes into the TAAC.
Writing Consultants work with students to help them to develop effective
writing strategies and to become self-regulated learners. Peer tutors will be
current students who are deemed qualified to tutor certain courses;
para-professional tutors will be tutors who have an Associate's or Bachelor's
degree who are qualified to tutor certain courses.
We are planning to have an open house at the beginning of fall semester.
Please check the Trib for updates.
Rambish, Medea
Academic Foundations
05/18/2018