The McGraw Center hires undergraduates in a range of roles, and often has over 100 undergraduate students working across the center each semester. Some of the roles are described below along with information about where to learn more. Academic Life & Learning Consultants Do you want to improve your own academic performance while helping your fellow students improve theirs? Interested in honing skills for professions beyond Princeton, including business consulting, medicine, seminary studies, graduate school, and teaching? Are you curious about: how people learn and how we can learn more efficiently for academic purposes? motivational dynamics and ways to harness them for success? how to promote growth and change in oneself and others? strategies and techniques for effective consultation and collaboration? university culture and how it works; what some have called the “hidden curriculum”? If so, then join the McGraw Center a Learning Consultant in our Learning Consultation Program. Learn more about becoming a learning consultant. McGraw Peer Tutors Tutoring offers multiple benefits, including, of course, altruism (you help out your fellow students) and self-interest (you make some extra cash). Tutoring also further develops and sharpens your disciplinary knowledge; in the process of tutoring, one's understanding of the discipline and field will become deeper and stronger. It also provides the opportunity to enhance tutoring-specific skill sets such as group facilitation, formulating clear and useful explanations, and making assessments. Skills which are applicable not only to teaching but also to medicine and other fields. We are seeking prospective tutors who: are accomplished, have an A- or above in the course(s) they want to support, and possess (and want to develop) skills essential for effective tutoring. Students with a B+ in the course may be considered. Learn more about becoming a McGraw peer tutor. Tutoring Admins Undergraduate admins work within McGraw's tutoring program. Admins assist the graduate coordinators in organizing each tutoring shift, welcoming and signing in students to tutoring, and directing people to the appropriate spaces during tutoring. The admin role requires reliability, a welcoming nature, and the ability to remain calm and reassuring when assisting those who may be stressed. Hiring occurs each semester dependent on returning staff numbers - when the application is open it is listed here: (not currently accepting admin applications)
