Congratulations
to the April WSU PSAC
P'Sack' Awardee

Cristine Jennings

Tutoring Specialist
Academic Support Centers and Programs

 

P'Sack' Awardee of the Month

BIOGRAPHY

Cristine manages 25 student employees through the Math Tutoring Center, where face-to-face and online math help is offered.  Christine is an excellent musician and a lifelong student of culture and history.  She said that she enjoys working at WSU and that "Every day is different and interesting. I get a great deal of satisfaction from teaching. My co-workers are well-supported, highly competent and great to be around."

She graduated from WSU in 1995 in Applied Mathematics and Geosciences. Cristine earned a Master's degree in Earth & Planetary Science. She is a member of the College Reading & Learning Association.

Cristine's mother is currently employed at WSU as Marketing Director in Performing Arts and her grandmother worked as "the voice of Weber State," or switchboard operator, for 40 years. Her family owns and operates a non-profit community art center in downtown Ogden. "We participate in Ogden's "First Friday" Art Stroll. Come see us any first friday of the month: it is always free. The address is 2556 Washington Blvd."

NOMINATION SELECTION

Cristine believes in what she is and always looks for ways to spread the message. She manages tutors, tutees and the Math Tutoring Center, team teaches tutor training classes, advertises math and tells everyone that math anxiety can be overcome and math competency can be accomplished at WSU.

She is especially effective in working with non-traditional students who return to school many years after their previous math classes. She is very effective at relating math concepts to everyday uses, thereby giving confidence to people who are using math casually without even realizing it. Once a person realizes this, a lot of anxiety is abated.

Cristine has greatly increased student use of the Math Tutoring Center through her comprehensive advertising across campus, in the Signpost, through the morning bulletins, table tents in the cafeteria, inserts in various student packets. She promotes the Math Tutoring Center by attending various department and program events at the first of each semester. If there is an opportunity to get the word out she has used it.

She also teaches a Physics Lab each semester and occasional classes in Geosciences.

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