Brown County Tutoring Collaboration

This project sought to develop and sustain a robust IU student volunteer tutor program with the Brown County Literacy Coalition which runs a tutoring program for 3rd to 6th grade in Brown County. This project aimed to increase IU student tutor enrollment, organized a series of events with speakers sharing about their careers with elementary school children, and provided a collection of books about different jobs as reading materials of the program. Additionally, from a research perspective, this project employed a person–environment fit model to examine the match or mismatch between the needs of the volunteer tutors and the structure of the tutoring program, so as to explore possible ways to increase the number of tutors of the program in the future.