Dr. Colin Suchland, professor of sociology, and Tiffany-Anne Elliott, academic support programs coordinator for the LLCC Center for Academic Success presented “Lifting Learning Barriers — Positioning Embedded Tutoring as a High Impact Practice to Increase Student Mastery of Core Competencies” this past Monday at the Assessment Institute. Elliott discussed how the LLCC Writing Center’s formative program review led to piloting embedded tutoring on our campus and shared the results of preliminary assessment of that service. Suchland presented his assessment of how having Elliott as an embedded tutor in a section of his SOC 101 course dramatically improved students’ completion of assignments as well as their performance of written communication skills as measured by the written communication general education VALUE rubric.
If you would like to hear more about their work, they will be holding a session on Professional Development Day titled “The Win-Win: Improving Student Engagement and Skills via Embedded Tutoring” in which faculty and staff can learn more about embedded tutoring, its power to impact student success and opportunities for incorporating embedded tutors into other courses.
Congratulations to Preston Siewert who is the LLCC Center for Academic Success’ October student worker of the month. Preston is a new peer tutor for LLCC this semester but is already in high demand. 
Congratulations to Grace Hatcher who is the LLCC Center for Academic Success’ September student worker of the month. Grace has tutored for LLCC since August 2021. She was on campus the week before fall classes started reviewing available resources she would be able to use in her tutoring appointments this semester. She even volunteered time to work with students in the week preceding the start of fall semester. Her attention to detail and suggestions for additional resources help improve our peer tutoring services for the subjects she tutors. Grace is a motivated self-starter, and CAS is excited for her to continue providing tutoring support to LLCC students taking biology, CNA and nursing courses this semester.
Congratulations to Hannah Tolan who is the LLCC Center for Academic Success’ August student worker of the month! Hannah is one of only three peer tutors who worked through the summer, providing essential coverage for the LLCC Math Center. In addition to their own course work and their other student worker position on campus, Hannah is adaptive to the center’s needs to provide essential academic support to our students. Hannah is always flexible with scheduling, and their attention to detail and suggestions for updates and improvements have helped keep the Math Center running smoothly during the summer months. Hannah is a motivated self-starter, and CAS is excited for them to continue working and providing tutoring support to students in the Math Center this fall.