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Tutor selection-- kind, bright, good listeners
     Nine part-time tutors work 4 to 20 hours a week. Tutors include both academic specialists and peer tutors, good SSS students who have made it through at least one semester, often with the help of the tutoring program. Academic tutoring is provided in core subjects including English, math and science. Tutors might also provide help with time management or study skills as well as guidance in learning how to navigate within the academic system such as finding out what other resources are available.
     "We use academic specialists whenever we can," says Margie McLaughlin, who screens and selects all tutors herself. She chooses individuals who are "good listeners and sensitive problem solvers." In addition to high academic grades, applicants must provide a written recommendation from a professor who can attest to his or her skills.

The tutors in fall 2002 include:

• A math specialist with a master's degree
• A science specialists who is a graduate student in microbiology at a nearby university and a former Americorps member.
• Nine peer tutors who are knowledgeable in core subjects and with individual strengths in math, science and writing.

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Michael Shively,, a popular math tutor and program veteran, is also a Gates scholar