Academic Writing and Learning Center

Faculty and Staff

Your partner in student success

"One of my favorite parts about tutoring has been the solidifying of fundamental concepts in my major."

UMD’s Tutoring Center is an award-winning, student-helping-student program.

Data from last year's Tutoring Center surveys indicate well over half of student users (63%) and tutors (67%) experienced heightened interest in their majors as a result of their participation in tutoring. On average, over 80% of student users and student tutors report improved scholarship and increased overall satisfaction with UMD as a result of their participation in the program.

A vast majority of tutors (86%) reported they developed more empathy and a greater sense of responsibility from their tutoring experience; nearly all of them (96%) indicated they had developed skills transferable to future employment situations.

Tutoring provides an additional interactive component to students’ academic experience. Tutors are trained academic coaches; they explain concepts and model techniques that support formal instruction with the goal of improving students’ grasp of the subject matter.

Did you know...?

Tutors are not paid.
Tutors receive academic credit for enrolling in the training course (SSP 3003) and completing a required number of tutoring-practicum hours per week.
Tutors do NOT do homework for students.
Tutors are trained to guide students to become independent learners.
Tutoring is not only for struggling students.
Nearly two-thirds (65%) of the students seeking tutoring at UMD's Tutoring Center last year reported a GPA of 3.0 or better.
Each department supported by tutoring sets their own specific criteria for their subject tutors.
Courses currently supported by tutoring

Departments supported by tutoring set specific criteria for tutors and supply the Tutoring Center with current textbooks. Please contact Claudia Plaunt-Martin if: