Information for Faculty & Staff

The University Tutoring staff is available to give or help prepare a 10-minute presentation on available services, tailored for your class, upon request.  

To request a class visit, please contact the University Tutoring Coordinator.

We encourage instructors to refer any students who would benefit from tutoring, especially those who are struggling in the course.  

Any undergraduate student can make an University Tutoring appointment.

If you think your student would be an excellent addition to our team of peer tutors, we gladly accept faculty and staff recommendations — especially in subject areas where we currently don’t have peer tutors. 

Additionally, all tutor applicants are required to submit at least one recommendation letter as part of their application. Learn more about the tutor application process on the Become a Tutor page. 

Either way, please email all recommendations to the University Tutoring Coordinator.

CARSS provides tutoring associated with first- and second-year biology, chemistry and physics courses. 

Across all demographics, students who participate in CARSS enjoy higher pass rates in their science courses and have higher graduate rates than students who didn’t participate.  

Please contact the CARSS Program Coordinator to request tutoring services for your course section.

If CARSS tutoring will be offered for your course, you must email your course syllabus to the CARSS Program Coordinator before the semester begins. 

Our coordinator will tell you the name(s) of the tutor(s) assigned to your course section(s), as well as their email address(es), Albany ID(s) and Net ID(s).  

Please add each tutor to the appropriate course section’s Brightspace. These resources may help: 

• Brightspace Resources for Instructors

• Brightspace Course Roles

• Add a User to a Brightspace Course

If CARSS tutoring will be offered for your course, we encourage you to recommend the service to your students by including information in your syllabus and/or inviting us to give a five-minute presentation to your class. 

Note: CARSS respects students’ privacy. If they grant us the right to share their information with others, we will send you a brief report on how often they have attended tutoring sessions for your course and what concepts the sessions covered. 

Please contact the CARSS Program Coordinator to request a class visit. 

As the course instructor, you are best suited to speak on your students’ knowledge base. You also may have gained insight into their character and their ability to work with others while teaching them. 

This is why CARSS requires all tutor applicants to submit at least one recommendation from a UAlbany instructor. The instructor(s) must have taught the applicant in the course(s) they intend to tutor, and they must submit one recommendation per intended course. 

If a student has asked you to recommend them for a CARSS tutor position, please complete the CARSS Tutor Recommendation Form.

Learn more about the CARSS tutor application process on the Become a Tutor page.