Become a Tutor

For us, “content” means courses such as biology, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, math (especially MAT161) and physics. These are some of our highest demand courses. Ability to tutor for any of those courses generally guarantees employment but you may tutor for any class you like. If you are looking to tutor for English — be it grammar, an English course, or ENG100 or ENG101, consider becoming a writing tutor. 

Hiring Requirements for Content Tutors:

• Enrolled as a full-time SUNY Plattsburgh student

• Completed the course(s) at SUNY Plattsburgh

• Earned a grade of B or better in the course(s)

• Maintained a minimum of a 2.75 GPA

• Minimum of sophomore standing

• Interested in tutoring more than one course for more than one semester

• Able to complete either TTR101 Tutor Training Seminar [1-credit hybrid course] or non-credit New Tutor Training Overview

First, you should apply on Handshake for “Claude J. Clark Learning Center Peer Tutor.” Please upload a copy of your DegreeWorks audit, a simple resume, and fill out the MachForm link to include the courses you’d like to tutor for. 

Once your application has been processed, the Learning Center’s graduate assistant will reach out to you to start the onboarding process and payroll. 

Questions? Email [email protected] 

Do you love words? Then writing tutoring might be the job for you! For us, writing tutoring means that you will support student writing in any form — this could be poems from an English class, an autoethnography from ENG101, a history paper, a biology lab report and much more! 

Being a writing tutor isn’t just for English majors! We are actively seeking science majors, communications majors, history majors, and HDFR majors, as well as folks who are multilingual, Black, Hispanic, East Asian, South Asian or of any minoritized group to tutor for writing. 

If you’ve been recommended to become a writing tutor by a professor, you’ll receive an email from Learning Center assistant director and writing specialist Regan Levitte to take ENG390: Writing Tutoring Theory and Practice. However, you are welcome to enroll in ENG390 at any time. 

Hiring Requirement for Writing Tutors:

• Must receive a B+ or higher in ENG101

• Must take ENG390: Writing Tutoring Theory and Practice before applying, with a B+ or better; you’ll apply on Handshake after taking ENG390

• Enrolled as a full-time SUNY Plattsburgh student

• Maintained a minimum of a 2.75 GPA 

Questions? Email Assistant Director and Writing Specialist Regan Levitte at [email protected] 

We tend to promote from within to be an academic personal trainer (APT), but if you’re interested, stop by the Learning Center and chat with a member of our professional staff. 

Great APT applicants are people who love being organized, color-coding their notes and documents, using planners, learning new study skills, and teaching those skills to others! 

Employment is guaranteed if you can tutor for any of the following subjects: Accounting, computer science, math (especially MAT161), finance, chemistry, physics, economics or biology (or any combination of these). 

You can tutor for as many courses as you like — the record is 19 different courses for one tutor! All you need to do once you are onboarded by the Learning Center is send out our Faculty Recommendation Form to the faculty member who taught the class you’d like to add to your roster.  

All student workers are allowed to work up to 20 hours a week — this is the total between all on-campus jobs. We recommend that new tutors start out with four or five hours to start, and that all tutors stay at about ten hours per week. As you gain confidence as a tutor, you may go over ten hours per week. 

Because tutoring happens by appointment, your schedule may vary from week to week. If you prove to be an exceptionally responsible employee, and you tutor for a high-demand class, you may be offered a walk-in session — this is not a guarantee, and is reserved for our “best of the best” tutors. 

We tutor Sunday through Friday, so you do get Saturday “off” though the Learning Center is open as a study space on Saturdays. 

Because tutors get to pick their own hours, your schedule will certainly work out for you! Tutoring ends at 9 p.m. most nights. 

Yes — if those other jobs are on-campus, meaning you are working for another office or department, you can tutor as well. You just need to be mindful that student may only work 20 hours total between all their on-campus jobs. 

First and foremost, we expect you to be a student first! LC employees have some of the highest GPAs of any student group on campus, and so the professional staff understands that you need to prioritize your studies. Other expectations of tutors: be friendly and kind, help your tutees in the best way possible, attend monthly staff meetings (you are paid to attend staff meetings), fill out notes about your appointments and submit your payroll logs on time.

Want to know more? Check out our Student Employee Handbook.