Course-Embedded Tutors
If you are a faculty member teaching a writing-intensive course, you can apply for a course-embedded tutor. Course-embedded writing tutors are a form of supplemental instruction, and they are a valuable resource for your students throughout the writing process. They are more skilled and knowledgeable than their peers—they are fully trained and supported by the Writing Center—and they work three hours per week exclusively with your students.
Faculty members and course-embedded writing tutors work out a flexible schedule within the following guidelines:
- Tutors will spend time each week working directly with students.
- Tutors can split their hours between time spent in the classroom and time spent working with students outside of class.
- Tutors can offer one-on-one and/or small-group tutoring appointments for students in your class.
- Tutors can conduct workshops either in class or outside of class.
- Tutors can create writing resources for your class, such as handouts, activities, and/or videos.
- Tutors are not allowed to grade or evaluate student work in any form.
Within these guidelines, faculty members and course-embedded writing tutors work together to decide how this time should be allocated.
If you are paired with a course-embedded tutor, you will be required to engage in an asynchronous Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) training course about effective pedagogical strategies for working with your tutor (unless you previously completed the WAC workshop for this same purpose). You will receive a stipend for the deliverables that you produce upon completion of the course. There will also be one required synchronous Zoom meeting before each semester begins (in January and August) for all our faculty partners.
The application period for spring 2026 course-embedded tutors is now open. Applications are due by the end of the day on Friday, November 21, 2025.
