The Tutoring Book - California State University, Sacramento

helping your writers learn to negotiate academia, you will give some thought to your own assumptions
before you begin tutoring.
Notes
1 As a result of the open admissions movement at the City College of New York (or CUNY) during the
early 1970s, the “typical” college student – heretofore a white, middle-class male – was becoming
increasingly difficult to define because many of the students entering the university did not look,
speak, or write like those who had come before them; if these students wished to remain and/or
achieve academic success, they were expected to conform to the university’s standards. This is
the climate in which the Students’ Right to Their Own Language was conceived.
2 In Fall, 2004, 44% of CSUS students identified themselves as Caucasian, 17% as Asian, 14% Hispanic,
6% African American, 1% as Native American, 3% as Foreign, and 16% as Other. 59% of CSUS
students are women. While ages ranged from 13-84 years, the median age was 23 years of age.
See “Institutional Research” in list of works cited.
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