Guidelines for Students Being Tutored

1. It is the responsibility of your tutor to contact you. The Academic Success Center recommends that after a reasonable amount of time, if your tutor has not contacted you, come back to the Academic Success Center for another name. If you need help in a class for which we have no tutors registered, we will contact your professor and ask him/her to recommend someone who can help you.

2. The Academic Success Center pays your tutor. The service is free for you.

3. The Academic Success Center will pay for a maximum of 3 hours of tutoring per week per subject, with a limit of 2 subjects.

4. If you have a scheduled appointment with your tutor, make every effort to keep the appointment. If you cannot make it due to some unavoidable circumstance, you must make a reasonable effort to let your tutor know ahead of time. If you fail to keep three appointments with no prior notice, you will be ineligible for tutoring for the rest of the semester.

5. Please be on time for your tutoring sessions. Your tutor has been instructed to wait for you for 15 minutes. After that, the tutor may leave and the session is counted as a "no show."

6. Attending class regularly is a prerequisite for receiving tutoring. Your professor receives a notice from your tutor after each session. He/she is instructed to let us know if you are not attending and preparing for class.

7. Keep in mind that you will receive the most benefit if you see your tutor on a regular basis - not just before a test. Prepare for your tutoring sessions:

• Keep up with your textbook reading. Mark items you do not understand so that you can ask your tutor about them.

• Bring your class notes, text, handouts, etc. to your tutoring session.

• Let your tutor know when you are scheduled for a test and what the test will cover.

• When you get a test back, bring it to your next session, if possible, so that your tutor can help you review what you missed.

• Remember - tutoring will not benefit you if you do not also spend a sufficient amount of time on your own with your subject, attend class regularly, and do assigned work.

8. If you need help in a subject for which there is a great demand for tutors, you may be asked to be in a small group instead of a one-on-one tutoring situation. Groups can be very beneficial - you can learn from each other as well as from your tutor.

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