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Tutoring center aids struggling students

Photo illustration by Libby Parenti || [email protected]

In the era of Furlough Fridays, budget cuts and ever-present pink slips, a City College program aimed at providing students with necessary skills has managed to survive another semester.

While the Web site for the Learning Skills and Tutoring Program indicates the College Success

Workshops program is unavailable, according to one of the program coordinators, because of some last-minute funding, the workshops, which employ students to help those in need, will continue.

“We’ve been offering workshops since about 2006,” said evening and weekend tutor coordinator Kakwasi Somadhi. “We’ve had pretty good staffing levels up until we lost about half of our tutoring staff. We normally will employ between 40 and 50 students a semester [but now] we’re down to about 20.”

Workshops are geared toward improving academic performance and providing students with the skills necessary to improve success in college.

“Quite a bit of what we do is what instructors are telling us, and we set up workshops accordingly,”
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Somadhi said. “Faculty are always trying to get their student to improve on how they approach subjects. So they will often give their students a bit of extra credit for coming to those workshops.”

Some of the upcoming workshops offered this semester include today’s Coping with Stress and Test Anxiety (March 23), an ATB math workshop March 24 about the basics of taking, or retaking, the Ability to Benefit test — required for students without a high school diploma or GED — and Developing Good Study Skills March 25.

“Students often fail, or do poorly in classes, not because they can’t grasp the work, but because they don’t know how to approach doing it,” Somadhi said.

City College students appreciate the services.

“Everytime I have any type of question they go farther than what’s expected of them to help me,” said City College nursing major Ernesto Sabala.

“We have a wait list and right now on our wait list there are better than 100 students that we cannot serve or we’re having difficulty serving,” said Somadhi, who admits the program is still feeling the effects of budget cuts.

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