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What You Can Expect from Tutors

  • Tutors are carefully screened undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate exceptional academic skills as well as an interest in helping other students.
  • Tutors are required to take COUN 230 and 330, one-credit courses in which they develop and demonstrate an effective tutoring practice.
  • Tutors will not do students’ work for them or assume ownership of students’ ideas. You can be confident that you are evaluating a student’s own work.
  • Tutors will not comment negatively to students about instructors' teaching methods, assignments, personality, or grading policies.
  • Tutors are not aware of how assignments are graded; therefore, they will avoid suggesting a grade or criticizing how an assignment has been graded.
  • Tutors strategically and effectively help students become more academically successful, but they cannot ensure that every student produces A-level work.