The literacy-centered group Students for Education plans to adapt its tutoring system as to give students more independence when volunteering. Aghilah Nadaraj, vice president and senior, said the group will now allow its members to tutor at the Coburn Center without supervision by club officers.

“We just started up our tutoring program again in mid-January, and we’re making a few changes to it this semester,” Nadaraj said. “Before, we only let members tutor when an officer could accompany and supervise them, but now they have more freedom to tutor whenever they want to.”

According to sponsor Sherri Pankratz, the club’s meetings and activities are almost entirely run by the officers.

“I leave most of the day-to-day functions of the club to the students,” Pankratz said.

As for Nadaraj, she said the club made the change because members no longer needed the officers’ help during tutoring sessions.

“After a semester of tutoring, I think the club members got the gist of tutoring and didn’t need (the officers) to watch them all the time,” Nadaraj said. ”In addition, the need to have an officer present meant there were only a few times that members could tutor, and now they have more flexibility to do what is most convenient for them.”

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