UF Student Government’s Academic Affairs Cabinet will host the inaugural Steps to Success Tutoring Fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today on the Reitz Union Colonnade.
Tutoring companies like Study Edge and Smokin’ Notes will offer promotional products and coupons for their services to people who stop by. Eight groups are scheduled to attend and aim to make students more aware of their options, said Emily Hilton, SG director of academic affairs.
“Most students don’t realize there are free tutoring services, even on campus,” she said.
Food science and human nutrition sophomore Abigail Gruspe, 18, had mainly heard of tutoring services that charge fees.
“I’m sure the way they condense it is helpful,” Gruspe said. “But I really think that with Smokin’ Notes and those kinds of things, it’s more important that you go to class and take notes.”
The fair will provide free snacks and drinks. The first 150 students to check in at the SG table with their Gator1 cards will receive free T-shirts.
Michael Mas, an 18-year-old mechanical and aerospace engineering freshman, said he is interested in visiting the event. But he wasn’t sure how to balance his time between the tutoring fair and Career Showcase.
“I think it’s a wonderful opportunity for everyone to find out what’s out there and to increase the overall academic success at our school,” Hilton said.
Family, youth and community sciences junior Theresa Faleti, 20, said the fair could be helpful, depending on what classes UF students are taking.
“If I needed it, I would definitely go,” Faleti said.
