Tutorial services has grand opening
Marissa Barnhart
Issue date: 10/1/09 Section: News
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Formerly located in Russell Hall, the tutorial center made its move to East Campus with the help of a $330,000 contribution from Dr. Betty Baird Schantz.
The donation has led to new and improved resources to help students with their academic needs. Some of these new resources include new laptops, smart boards and televisions. Not to mention the center now has six rooms each designed with tables and chairs for group tutoring.
"Tutoring helps students learn strategies and skills, and overall just lets them know they have a person behind the desk they can talk to," said Director of Tutorial Services, Dr. Pamela Czapla. "It's a good way for students to meet people they can study with."
Tutoring is free to students and provides services for students who need help in 100 and 200 level general education courses ranging anywhere from ethics to mathematics.
The tutors are LHU students that are paid for their job of helping other students on campus and all tutoring is peer to peer.
Students are encouraged to get some extra help studying or just overall help understanding something within the class.
"This new facility rocks," said psychology tutor Trish Turo. "It's a great learning environment because it has all the resources we need to help."
"I'm glad they gave us a place where we can meet and tutor that's convenient," added psychology tutor Sultana Karim.
However, while students have this new center at their disposal now, it took a lot of work to get this project on its feet. It started as an idea presented by Czapla. She involved President Keith T. Miller, who agreed that this project would keep students moving forward and would set a stage in preparing students for the next few years.
Czapla also talked to a lot of people on the council of trustees and the various departments at Lock Haven University. From there it grew, but there was only one thing that kept the project from advancing further and that was funding.
LHU Foundation Board Secretary Dr. Betty Baird Schantz decided to take the project on and gave the project the boost it needed with her donation of $330,000.
"I fund projects that help students and this one certainly does," said Schantz. "But it takes a whole college to make something like this happen."
Schantz also added that this tutorial center strengthens student education, and she believes students should learn from other students who excel.
"All I can say after all these years is that we finally have a center," said Czapla.
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