Tutoring is available — on campus and online!
Academic Support in 1L-117 offers quality, cost-free tutoring year-round. Our professional peer tutors, certified by the CRLA (College Reading & Learning Association), are happy to meet any day of the week, either in the Library (1L-117) or in a virtual tutoring room, to assist you with your coursework.
Please see our schedules for on-campus tutoring — on both a walk-in and appointment basis — and online tutoring below.
If you have any questions about tutoring, please reach out to us by e-mail at oas@csi.cuny.edu or by phone at 718.982.4221.
Tutoring (walk-in) – 1L-117
Tutoring (by appointment) – 1L-117
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Appointments Tutoring Schedule (for select courses)
(Walk-ins are welcome, but if you prefer to plan ahead, please
feel free to schedule your weekly tutoring appointments.)
Online Tutoring Schedules
Special Workshops
Welcome to our Tutoring Lab (1L-117)
With a convenient tutoring location in the Library (1L-117), we strive to accommodate even the busiest of student schedules with weekday, weekend, and evening hours of operation. Our tutoring lab is equipped with several computers installed with MS Office, C++ and other academic software.
Our professional peer tutors, who are certified by the CRLA (College Reading & Learning Association), are able to assist students in the following ways:
- Assessing student work and helping accordingly by providing reinforcement of classroom instruction through explanation, clarification, and demonstration
- Helping students better understand challenging coursework and/or readings
- Facilitating a better understanding of academic writing, and providing helpful verbal and written commentary on student work
- Familiarizing students with CSI’s available academic resources
CSI’s Office of Institutional Research has demonstrated that our CRLA-certified tutors have historically helped students raise their pass rates by as much as 30%. Be sure to make use of this quality academic assistance on offer year-round.
Become a Tutor!
Academic Support hires high-performing students to work part-time as peer tutors in a wide variety of subject areas, both in the Humanities and Social Sciences as well as in Business & Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. For more information on the qualifications to apply to become a tutor — and the benefits, professional and personal, of working in this position — please see the following.
Certification of our Tutoring Center
Academic Support was awarded certification as a Level 1 certified tutor training program by the internationally recognized College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) in 2022, and has re-earned certification in 2024.
For more than thirty years, CRLA has been a leader in learning assistance, reading, and academic support programs, with almost 1,300 members and over 2,000 certified training programs worldwide.
Academic Support worked hard to develop a tutor training program that meets CRLA’s rigorous standards, and successfully completed the International Tutor Training Program Certification (ITTPC) peer review process. Achieving certification means that we have met CRLA’s high standards for tutor selection, training, direct service, and evaluation as an integral part of our overall tutoring program.
Contact Information
Christopher Cuccia
Assistant Director
Tutors can help in:
Accounting
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Computer Science
COR 100
Economics/Finance
Engineering Science
English Writing
History
Linguistics
Math
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology