Tutoring Center news

The Tutoring Center has had an eventful 2005 from bottom to top. Starting from the bottom, due to two floods in 2004, carpeting was replaced in the two largest rooms in the Rodney annex.

At the top, the Tutoring Center coordinator also changed in January. Patrick Ruffin, the previous coordinator, stepped down, and Ken Cranker, EAP VI teacher as well as Self-Access Learning Center (SALC) coordinator, became the tutoring coordinator as well. After these two jobs were combined, the tutoring coordinator became more accessible and more responsive to students’ needs.

	Tutoring coordinator Ken Cranker helps out a student in the Self Access Learning Center.

Located adjacent to the Tutoring Center, the SALC has also become a much livelier area, too, with tutors, students and the coordinator popping in and out when not busy in the Tutoring Center.

Tutors come and go with great fluidity. The 30 current tutors include veterans David Cassling, Dorothy Lehman, Isabel Whitaker, Ken Hyde, Lee Horzempa, Olive Yazid, Patrick White and Ruth Bailis, along with several excellent young tutors and retired professionals with lots of international experience.