MBSP tutoring program helps all involved students, says Drew DeRose
The accounting major spent two years providing tutoring and academic support services to his fellow scholars.
One of the many benefits of the Multicultural Business Scholars Program (MBSP) is the opportunity for scholars to receive free, one-on-one academic support and tutoring. Not only does this help those scholars in search for support, but it also gives the tutors, who are also MBSP scholars, an opportunity for personal and academic growth.
Drew DeRose, a junior accounting major and entrepreneurship minor, recently completed his time as an MBSP tutor after two years in service to the program and its scholars. He tutored three classes: statistics, accounting, and macroeconomics.
Providing tutoring and academic support services to scholars proved beneficial in many ways for DeRose. First, he enjoyed the relationships he built with the other MBSP scholars.
“I really respected student and their willingness to ask for help,” he said. “That is personally not something I do very well.”
Aside from the relationships he formed with scholars, he also said teaching the material to others forced him to recall and master the material of the course, which helped him in subsequent courses.
“It feels nice to feel like you can use your knowledge to help someone else,” DeRose added.
For him, tutoring and academic support is important because we all have different areas of study in which we excel, and we sometimes struggle. DeRose began tutoring in the first place because he knew that he excelled in accounting and figured he could help a peer scholar who was struggling in that particular area.
Lastly, he emphasizes the benefits of tutoring and academic services through MBSP as opposed to other campus entities.
“Being within MBSP, it felt more like a safer space, felt like you could trust the commitment from each other because we might already know each other, or we know each other more through MBSP,” he said.
