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The Reading and Writing Center at Kingsborough Community College will soon be even more beneficial to the growing needs of the student population. Conveniently located on the second floor of the campus library, in room L-219, the Reading and Writing Center has been the premier facility for assistance to students seeking help with English. The Center, which also hosts the laboratory component to courses in developmental English and provides tutors for in-classes – classes in which tutors sit in to provide extra assistance for students – has traditionally required a student to be physically available during an individual tutoring session. Devon Nixon, the Administrative Staff Coordinator at RWC commented on the importance of tutors in the scholastic lives of the students at KCC, “tutors bridge the perceived ambiguity of academia into something succinct.” Recently, however, the innovative administrators have found a new way to combat these restrictions: e-tutoring. “E-tutoring is an educational service for students who are unable to be physically present for a tutoring session,” said Andrew Sobolewski, the Administrative Staff Supervisor at RWC. In addition to the presently abundant service that the RWC provides, students will now be able to access the Center’s resources online, from the comfort of their own homes. This service will be accessible through the Reading and Writing Center’s website, located at www.kbcc.cuny.edu/rwc/, where tutors will be able to assist students at designated times. E-tutoring is scheduled to become fully operational by the beginning of the winter semester, making this hitherto inaccessible necessity a reality for the students who need tutors most. “I think e-tutoring best caters to the student who has a full-time job and wants the best bang for their buck,” said KCC tutor and professor Patrick Hickey Jr. “However, in times like these, where people don’t have the luxury of letting mommy and daddy pay their tuition, a free service like this will also allow the hard working student to make the most out their academic experience, in addition to helping a student while they’re out trying to pay the bills. The Reading and Writing Center already provides a great service to the students of KCC; this just makes them that much more of a commodity.” |
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