Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Embedded tutors in STEM courses give students immediate access to help, while support courses or refreshers address gaps in understanding and build a strong foundation for success. Requiring tutor hours where appropriate fosters consistent engagement with support systems, improving retention and academic performance.

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Knack

MARCH 12, 2025

Thats why relationship-driven tutoring is so powerful. When peer tutors go beyond transactional help to build meaningful academic relationships, the impact extends far beyond the classroom. In higher education, academic support isnt just about delivering contentits about connection.

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Knack

JANUARY 10, 2025

Peer tutoring programs, specifically tailored for colleges of business, present an effective way to bridge this gap. Foundational courses in areas such as accounting, finance, and economics are essential for students academic progress and future careers, but they are also some of the most difficult.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

Carr NCES’s report provides insights into how some schools are using tutoring to address student behavior and learning. Most rated tutoring as, at least, moderately effective at improving student outcomes. About 47% of public schools reported having provided two or more types of tutoring.

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Good Tutors Finder

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

When my daughter struggled with IB Maths and French last year, I started exploring tutoring options. The big question was: should we choose online tutoring or at-home tutoring ? Both have their strengths and with Good Tutors Finder Switzerland , you don’t have to pick one or the other—we offer both. Here’s why: 1.

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Good Tutors Finder

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

How a Tutor Can Help a Student With Dyslexia: Empowering Success Through Specialized Support Dyslexia affects millions of students worldwide, influencing how they process language and making tasks such as reading, spelling, and writing more challenging. Fortunately, personalized tutoring offers an effective means of support.

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Knack

MARCH 11, 2025

While one-time tutoring sessions can be helpful for reviewing a concept or preparing for an exam, consistent interactions with the same tutor create opportunities for something deeper: a relationship that fosters both a sense of belonging and the confidence to become an independent learner.

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Knack

JANUARY 24, 2025

Flexible tutoring locations offer a solution to this challenge, ensuring students can get the support they need, wherever they are. As colleges and universities strive to enhance student success, one key strategy is increasing access to academic support services.

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Knack

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We’re excited to announce Knack’s new partnership with Union County, New Jersey, to offer free tutoring to middle school students (grades 5-8), with support from dedicated tutors from local colleges and universities.

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Knack

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

A key part of that effort has been its partnership with Knack , a peer tutoring platform that connects students with fellow classmates who have already mastered the material. Thats why Temple Universitys Fox School of Business has made it a priority to ensure all students have access to the support they need to succeed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Halima Monds was a first-year student at Spelman College when she joined SpelREADS , a program that pairs undergraduate tutors with students in Atlanta Public Schools to help boost their reading ability. Unfortunately, these kinds of intensive tutoring models can be challenging for school districts to implement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Domico has volunteered as a youth math and science tutor and helped raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes ResearchFoundation. School: Dominican University Year: 2016 Major: Neuro Science Alyssa Domico is a senior at Dominican University, where she has achieved a 4.0 native of Naperville, Illinois, Domico is a.321

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Knack

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Peer tutoring offers a unique experience that combines academic support with personal growth and development for everyone involved. While students benefit greatly from working with a knowledgeable peer, the tutors themselves experience an equally valuable, often life-changing, opportunity.

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Knack

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A conversation with Dawna Perez, Executive Director of Student Success, and Kate Ziemer, Senior Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, highlighted the impact of Knacks peer tutoring platform on scaling tutoring services and improving student access across the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

The University of Utah Reading Clinic, housed in the College of Education, will provide opportunities for the cohort to “serve as tutors and mentors for other incarcerated students hoping to pursue higher education at Davis Technical College or Salt Lake Community College, according to Dr. Frankie Laanan, dean of Utah’s College of Education.

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Knack

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Peer tutoring has long been a staple of academic support in higher education, but could it rise to the level of a high-impact practice (HIP)? Together, we explored the potential of peer tutoring to transform student engagement and success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“Each campus recipient is intentional with their application by clearly stating a commitment to invest in and to evolve services to support student athletes' educational experience and their academic success.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In 2016, EAP reduced the number of courses in its course sequence, increased tutoring services and added embedded tutoring. It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Among the services it provides to first-year students are individualized academic advising, tutoring and community-building events.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Sam Houston’s academic success center offers one-on-one tutoring and mentoring. We know that tutoring support is something that students really appreciate,” said Jernigan. “We We have made an effort to bring on board a bilingual tutor in our academic enhancement center. The college also has two bilingual peer mentors.

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Knack

JUNE 5, 2023

Meet Tiffany Jackson, a former tutor at the University of South Florida. As she begins her nursing residency program at AdventHealth, we asked her to reflect on her time tutoring on Knack.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This research showed significant increases in persistence for students who participated in tutoring programs and who received supplemental instruction. We learned that tutoring was immensely effective for males and African American students, in particular.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 16, 2023

The Carole and Marcus Weinstein Learning Center – in the Boatwright Memorial Library – will integrate and expand student academic services, including effective speaking, writing, and peer tutoring. “We We remember spending hours poring over the library’s card catalog to do further research for papers we were writing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Additionally, a local middle school math teacher was hired to teach geometry, and the church provided one of its tutors to assist. The initiative will also seek to grow its roster of teachers and tutors. Almost all of the parents of the high schoolers later reported that their children earned A’s in their fall semester math course.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

The program aims to offer academic tutoring and mentorship; high school and college course selection assistance; financial aid application help; guidance on secondary school reentry, alternative education programs, and college entry; and financial literacy education.

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Active Minds

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To make the material more manageable for me, I have been regularly going to my professor’s office hours and tutoring sessions. There are resources that every college offers to make complex classes easier for students; they are there to be used, and utilizing them will help you in the long run.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

As associate dean for Student Affairs at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, she oversees all student services and support offices, including student clubs and events, the Records Office, tutoring and other academic support, and health and wellness services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In addition to this new course, Wentworth continues to provide tutoring and assistance for students struggling with their work, and this course will be no exception, Sontgerath said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Village is located near campus and provides wraparound services including case management, counseling and tutoring. The Village at Cerritos College is California’s first community college housing project exclusively for homeless students. years, compared to the collegewide average of 5.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

By serving as tutors and mentors, college students can make a positive difference in the lives of children and youth, and ultimately, it is in the best interests of our colleges and universities to help accelerate academic recovery in our public elementary and secondary schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Why, he was asked, hadn’t his mom hired a private SAT tutor and college admissions consultant? Even so, it’s been hard to stay quiet as my son is subjected to the snobbery and elitism pervading our culture, here in Philadelphia and beyond.

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Knack

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

At Jacksonville University (JU), student success is always top of mind. Like many institutions, JU understands that fostering meaningful academic support and engagement is key to helping students persist and thrive. Thats why the university has embraced an innovative approach to peer learningone that is not only scalable but also high-impact.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

This past semester, that effort took shape in the form of tutoring second-graders at Springhill Lake Elementary with reading and comprehension. One of her small joys in an otherwise daunting doctoral pursuit is being able to serve as a mentor outside of her lab. It’s a way to give back to her community, Ramirez says.

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Knack

MARCH 31, 2025

In a webinar titled Empowering Learning Centers Through Educationally Purposeful Peer Interactions , experts Dr. George Kuh, Dana Talbert, and Marco Ortiz shared strategies to strengthen learning centers by harnessing the power of peer interactions, particularly through peer tutoring.

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Knack

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With over 500 hours of tutoring completed on Knack, Devonte has made a lasting impact by helping his peers succeed. His dedication, expertise, and passion for education set him apart as one of the top tutors at FVSU. At Fort Valley State University (FVSU), students seeking academic support have a true champion in Devonte Payton.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

In addition to its afterschool math clubs, tutoring, dual enrollment courses, and study groups, its teachers are worth applauding. SJH’s focus on training students to be proficient in mathematics was another point in its favor.

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Knack

OCTOBER 3, 2024

On Sunday, September 29, peer tutors from colleges and universities across the country came together virtually for KnackCon, a conference for tutors, by tutors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

At the country day school, in addition to school resources students’ parents would utilize private tutors and other outside support services. Those students also had access to test preparation for ACT and SAT examinations.

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