Video Project #2 A Day in the Life of a Tutor

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The Academic Support Center at Lyndon State College offers many services to the students.

The faculty and staff of the center offer tutoring in a plethora of subjects, a writing center, academic counseling, ESL, services for students with disabilities, and a math resource center.

They also offer a federally funded program called Project Excel. This programs helps eligible students graduate from college. Project Excel offers tutoring and services for students with disabilities as well, along with academic and personal counseling, scholarships, financial advising, and a laptop lending program.

Student tutors are one of the most easily accessed services of Academic Support. Most tutors are often students enrolled at Lyndon State College, and are hired through a direct hire method, rather than work study. Student tutors are hired by Debra Bailin, the director of Student Academic Development.

Upon arrival to the writing center, which is home of the different services offered by academic support, a student can find a schedule of when tutors are working and the subjects that they are eligible to cover as a tutor. Students are allowed to work with the tutor they have sought out for up to an hour, for the purposes of sanity and a clear mind.

The students can search on the schedule when there will be a tutor available for a specific subject, and they can see who is currently working in the writing center. There are math tutors, writing tutors, science tutors, and tutors for almost every major, like Electronic Journalism Arts and Mountain Recreation.

When it comes to counseling, ESL, services for students with disabilities, and Project Excel, students can seek information and help from the faculty and staff located in the writing center. Often times, the faculty and staff of Academic Support often work one on one with students of this nature, to give them the best possible service they can.

Unlike this, student tutors do not usually work one on one. They sit in the open environment of the writing center, around other students and tutors, to receive the help they are looking for.

Some professors at the college provide extra credit to students who seek help from one of the services offered by Academic Support. Tutors have a log book to record when they have worked with a student, which is available for professors to see, or often times, a brief note can be written by the tutor to the professor, to make them aware that they have worked with a student.

The Academic Support community at Lyndon State College provides a relaxed, helpful environment for students to seek help and guidance.