Re: request for community college information

["L. PURKEY" <lpurkey@NMSU.Edu>]

I worked at a community college in Seattle as a tutor the year after I
graduated from university.  Our staff included students (mostly in their 
second years of study), people like myself who had tutored before but
were not students at the college, and students at the University of
Washington or other universities.  It worked well and I think because of 
our extensive training, the students at the community college were great 
tutors.  I see the potential for problems, but with training I think
peer tutors at a comm. college is a good idea.
Laura Purkey

On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, D'Ann
George wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
>