UTSA Downtown Campus
UTSA students needed as tutors for America Reads, America Counts programs
(Sept. 19, 2001)--Want to help help sow the seeds of academic success for some San Antonio area youngsters?
As part of the America Reads and America Counts programs, the UTSA Office
of K-16 Initiatives and Honors Program is recruiting 50 UTSA students to tutor
first, second and third graders in reading and middle school students in math.
Tutors spend about 10-15 hours per week working one-on-one with a youngster
whose reading or math skills are below grade level. Tutors receive wages that
are higher than regular work-study wages. All tutoring sites are near the
Downtown Campus. While the program is open to all majors, tutor applicants
must be eligible for work study at UTSA.
Part of a national initiative to ensure that every American child can read
independently by the third grade, UTSA's America Reads effort was implemented
in 1998. Its sister program, America Counts, began the following year.
For more information about becoming a tutor for America Reads or America Counts,
call (210) 458-2769. Applications are available in the K-16 Initiatives office,
located at the Downtown Campus in Buena Vista Street Building Room 2.308.
Applications can also be downloaded from their Web site.
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
Teach-ins on America's crisis set for today at 1604 Campus, Sept. 27 at Downtown Campus
Staff
Excellence Awards nominations deadline is today
Latino
Heritage Week events continue through Friday
UTSA students needed as tutors for America Reads, America Counts programs
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