Job Title: Tutor (Embedded Tutor)
PVN ID: LE-2002-003543
Category: Instruction and Social Service
Location: LEHMAN COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

Lehman College is seeking Academic Tutors (embedded tutors) for a recently awarded 5-year grant: Pathways to Student STEM Success (PTS3): Using High Impact Practices to Improve STEM Enrollment, Retention, Transfer and Graduation. The Academic Tutors would assist our STEM students in the areas of biology, chemistry and physics.  The candidate would be embedded in the classroom.  The successful candidate would also hold office hours when necessary for individual tutoring sessions.

About the Pathways to Student STEM Success Program (PTS3)

Pathways to Student STEM Success (PTS3) is a coherent and collaborative program that will engage senior and community college students in activities designed to build their social and cultural capital through: intensive advisement; master of academic content and skills; and participation in STEM activities that are central to STEM interest, efficacy, and success. PTS3 will also address administrative barriers that plague transfer students through joint planning and collaborative implementation with Bronx Community College (BCC) and Hostos Community College (HCC).

Other Duties

  • Work closely with the classroom professor
  • Provide content and skill development to all students
  • Create a tutoring schedule convenient to both the professor and the student
  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of each tutoring session
  • Maintain confidentiality of all student information shared during each session
  • Ensure students grasp key concepts for assignments and exams.
  • Provide office hours when necessary 

Qualifications

  • Must be a current Lehman College student
  • Have a minimum GPA of 3.0
  • Knowledge of Biology, Chemistry and/or Physics
  • Prior coursework completed in Biology, Chemistry and/or Physics
  • Have a flexible work schedule

RFCUNY Benefits

RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).

RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department
School of Natural and Social Sciences/Pa
Status
Part Time
Pay Range
$15.00-$15.00
Hour(s) a week
2.00-10.00
Closing Date
Apr 24, 2020 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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