Dec 10, 2015 By Casey Heimberger assistant Advertising Director 2 min read

As finals week approaches, students are scrambling to do some last minute studying and trying to retain some last minute information. 

Amidst this rush, there is a service on campus that does everything it can to help students reach the goals they are striving for and promotes academic support outside of the classroom.

The objective of the Waynesburg University Tutoring Program is to give students the opportunity to go out and seek help without the stigma of having to ask the professor. 

The Tutoring Program is a service the university provides students where they can go and be tutored by other students who have taken the class before.

“This is such an important part of the educational experience,” said Pam Abbe, tutor coordinator and director of the Knox Learning Center. “Learning is a social and cooperative thing. The goal of learning is to then go out and share what you have learned.”

It is with this goal in mind that Abbe and her student tutors have a finals week program, including what they call study tables.

“Study tables” are a proactive approach to the probable influx of students seeking tutoring before their finals. A study table is simply a place where a bunch of students who are seeking tutoring can get together with a single tutor, to all be tutored at once.

The objective is to cut down the amount of times a tutor needs to go out and teach the same concepts, as well as giving the student tutors more time to study for their own finals.

“Overall, the program has received a very good response,” said Abbe. “I hope to continue doing it as long as the school has its study day.”