Join our community
of lifelong learners: Become an SGS peer tutor.
Requirements
The best candidates to be peer tutors are current School of General Studies students or alumni who are highly dependable. They also need to have excellent communications skills, strong recommendations from their instructors, an interest in working one-on-one or in small groups with their peers, a minimum 3.0 GPA, and a solid command of the subject they want to tutor: English, Math, History, Sociology, and/or Economics.
All SGS peer tutors have to commit to ongoing and systematic tutor training. They also have to be available during activities period for walk-in services and meetings. Tutors are members of the SGS Peer Tutors Committee, which also includes SGS faculty and staff.
Benefits
We support our peer tutors and encourage them to be students first, and peer tutors second. There are many benefits associated with becoming an SGS peer tutor. Tutors have flexible hours, gain valuable work experience, earn $7-9 per hour, receive tutor training, and use their knowledge to help other SGS students. Tutors become part of a very exclusive group and develop into mentors, leaders and role models. There is also an opportunity to become a nationally certified tutor.
Application information
School of General Studies students interested in becoming peer tutors have to meet all the requiments as well as complete an application. Applications can be picked up from the peer tutoring office and returned to the peer-tutoring director at 250 Ryder Hall.