Re: request for community college information

["D'Ann George" <dgeorge@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>]

I direct a writing center at a community college where faculty are the 
tutors.  While I believe that peer tutors are ideal in a setting where 
you can find junior and seniors who have fulfilled writing requirements 
and who have a fair amount of college-level writing experience under 
their belts, I wonder who would tutor at community colleges if faculty 
did not?  Students who were themselves taking their first writing 
course?  Sophomores who had just passed their first writing course?

I'm more concerned about the DIS advantages, and even the potential 
disaster of such an arrangement than I am about the advantages of 
equal-status tutors.  

On Mon, 3 Feb 1997 KILBORNJ@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU wrote:

> One of my graduate student tutors is proposing that a community college with
> faculty tutors initiate a peer tutoring program. Although the tutor has done a
> lot of research (into programs and numbers and such), she's hoping to include
> some voices from experienced community college people in her proposal.
> Specifically, she'd like answers to the following questions:
> 
> 	1.  What are the benefits of peer tutoring vs. faculty/teacher 
> 	    tutoring in a community college?
> 
> 	2.  What are the benefits of having a peer tutoring center devoted 
> 	    solely to writing in a community college?
> 
> The student -- Jessica Lourey -- asks that you e-mail her directly at
> lourej01@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu and that you respond by 2/14.
> 
> Thank you for helping Jessie if you can.
> 
> Judy Kilborn
> in St. Cloud where people are donning shorts and short sleeves in the 20-degree
> weather
> 

D'Ann George
Writing Program Director
Essex Community College
7201 Rossville Boulevard
Baltimore County, Maryland 21237-3899