If your student needs assistance in a particular subject or perhaps just some encouragement, you might recommend three sources of help.
First, your student should go to the professor’s office hours, explain the difficulty, and see what the professor suggests. Sometimes it’s possible to resolve a problem in just one meeting.
The next source of assistance is the Tutoring Referral Service, operated by the Campus Information Center in the Iowa Memorial Union. It keeps a list of qualified tutors who have met a number of criteria before they were accepted. The criteria are:
- must be a UI student
or staff member
- must have 56 semester
hours or more of college credit
and 20 semester hours or more in the department in which they will tutor
- must have a 3.0
minimum grade-point average
- must have achieved no less than a B grade and completed each course listed or its equivalent.
Students are responsible for contacting the tutor, negotiating fees and appointment times, and paying for the service.
The final source of help is the University Counseling Service, which offers materials and counseling on study habits, getting more from lectures and discussions, and effective test-taking skills.