Welcome new and returning staff members!

A number of major procedural changes promises to make life interesting here at the Center.  Chief among them is the capability for students to schedule their own appointments–either in half hour or one hour slots. We feel that by  affording students this option, those that come to us with shorter written assignments can be served effectively without using up an entire hour, freeing up more available appointments.

in addition, we will employ an iPad at the front desk so that students can log themselves in and allow you more time to work with them on their actual writing. While you will still need to write up the session notes and log them out, we think you’ll agree that this will lessen some of the tedium of record-keeping. (I reserve that privilege for myself!)

From now on, all consultants will attend to “written comments” (formerly e-tutoring) uploaded to TutorTrac and assigned to whomever the student chooses. This way, your response to the submission is built into your scheduled hours as an “appointment,” and those requiring more than, say, a 30-minute slot can be addressed at a later time. (Students are notified during the uploading process that a response may take up to 72 hours depending on volume and/or length of submission.)

We will discuss other changes during our initial semester meeting(s). Our hope is that by streamlining our intake and response procedures, we will make the real task of helping our students more efficient and our sessions with them more fruitful.

Here’s to an exciting Fall semester!