Thus, the 24 students in a given AE Activity section will be attending different Academic English lecture sections. Both the Language Development Center and the Academic English courses are administered by the Department of Linguistics and Language Development. For evening sections or other hours that the Assistant Director is unavailable, a Manager will be present to handle administrative duties. The Director of the Center is Dr. Martha Bean, Academic English Program Coordinator.
Students rotate from their current area to the next according to a regular rotation pattern.
Other things being equal, and unless either the tutor, the student, the Lead Tutor, or the Assistant Director initiates a change, student-tutor pairs will remain the same for the whole semester. Assignments are made readily accessible to tutors so that they may know what to expect from their tutees and ensure that students are fulfilling their lecture requirements. An alternate assignment will be given to students who arrive unprepared and a note will be made on the Tutor's Term Report so that the student's lack of preparation may be brought to the attention of the Academic English teacher. Students who do not already know how to compose on the PC will hone their skills under the kind, personal attention of the technically literate Individual Projects Tutor. It may be that a majority of the students in any given group will be speakers of some first language other than English.