East Greenbush resident selected to be a peer tutor at Saint Michael's College

• by Saint Michael's College

COLCHESTER, VT (09/18/2009)(readMedia)-- Kendra Corr, daughterof Daniel and Cherie Corr of East Greenbush was named to be a peer tutor in the office of academic support programs at Saint Michael's College. Corr, a senior, political science major, graduated from Columbia High School before coming to Saint Michael's, a distinctive Catholic liberal arts college in Vermont that provides education with a social conscience.

One of Princeton Review's Best 371 Colleges, Saint Michael's provides opportunities for students to participate in independent science research, do real-work internships, get free passes to the best skiing in the East, and live in sight of Vermont's majestic Green Mountains. Saint Michael's is located in Burlington, Vermont, frequently named one of the best college towns in the country.

Corr will tutor Spanish, through a program organized by Joan Wagner, M.Ed., coordinator of academic peer tutoring. Tutors are selected on the basis of strong academic performance, recommendations by faculty members, enthusiasm for the subject, initiative, and a desire to help others. They participate in orientation and ongoing training sessions.

"Peer tutors serve as mentors and share the experience of having gone through the course the client student is going through," Ms. Wagner said.

One student client said last spring, "I had a very good experience with a tutor this year; my only regret is that I didn't get a tutor sooner."

The tutor agrees to follow a code that includes the understanding that, "I may not have all the answers all the time, but I will work together with my client(s) to figure out how to make use of available resources."

And the client agrees to a code that includes the understanding that it is his or her responsibility to, "Honor the academic integrity policy of Saint Michael's College and do my own work."

At Saint Michael's College, www.smcvt.edu, Learn What Matters. Saint Michael's provides education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools to lead a successful, purposeful life that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's is one of 270 colleges and universities nationwide, and one of only 20 Catholic colleges, with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students, some 250 graduate students and 100 international students. Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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