A new program, Residence Hall Tutoring, is now available at UTM.
For quite some time, the offices of Housing, Student Success and Student Engagement have been meeting to discuss the possibility of bringing academic assistance to the residence halls. In order to see if this program was something UTM students would be interested in, representatives from these offices sent out a survey to the students living in the residence halls.
Of those students, 88 percent responded as being interested or very interested in having tutoring available in the residence halls. Those offices also surveyed the top STEM classes that students would be most interested in having tutoring sessions in and at what times would be most convenient. The data was then used to put together a pilot program to gauge if students would utilize this service.
Ryan Martin, assistant director of Housing, encourages students to sign up for the resources.
“We hope that students will take advantage of this opportunity to get academic support in their home. We want to see our students have every opportunity possible to excel academically, and this just adds one more support system that we are happy to offer,” Martin said.
Tutoring will be available at a set time every week, and all students need to do is go by the tutoring locations at the assigned time for the various subjects being offered.
An email of the scheduled times and locations has been sent to all on-campus residents and is posted in the lobbies of the residence halls. If a student would like to receive individual tutoring, Sheila Patterson in the Student Success Center should be contacted, and she will provide a list of students willing to tutor in a variety of subjects. However, there will be a fee for individual tutoring, and the price is at the discretion of the tutor.
For the pilot program, tutoring will only be offered in locations in Browning and Ellington Halls. If the program is popular and effective they will look into expanding it to other locations, such as University Village. For more information about this program, contact Sheila Patterson at spatte20@utm.edu, the Supplemental Instruction Office at sisupervisor@utm.edu or Ryan Martin at rmartin@utm.edu.
