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When it first began six decades ago, the\u00a0Johns Hopkins Tutorial Project<\/a>\u00a0was\u00a0 <\/span>associated with a kind of radical, activist spirit. That was largely because its founding father, celebrated university chaplain Chester Wickwire, devoted his career to promoting social justice, long before it was the popular issue it is now.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the 1958\u201359 school year, Wickwire sent Johns Hopkins undergraduate students, then mostly white and male, out to tutor in neighborhoods of a deeply segregated Baltimore. By the mid \u201960s, his formalized project had hundreds of volunteers tutoring local elementary schoolers on the university\u2019s Homewood campus.<\/span><\/p>\n

With its origins in the civil rights era, the Tutorial Project\u2014which celebrated its 60th anniversary last spring\u2014is one of the oldest and longest-running campus tutoring programs in the country. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the program\u2019s early days, Johns Hopkins tutors visited students\u2019 homes in Baltimore. Originally, they worked with high schoolers, before Wickwire\u2014believing early intervention would make the most difference for at-risk students\u2014shifted the focus to elementary school. Later, amid the civil unrest of the mid- 1960s, it was deemed more practical to transport children by bus to the Homewood campus.<\/span><\/p>\n

At points in the 1960s, the Tutorial Project could count more than 400 volunteer tutors\u2014not only from Johns Hopkins but also from the University of Baltimore and Goucher College, as well as the now-closed Experimental High School. The project also once included a Saturday program and a summer program.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1998, Wickwire, then 84 years old, was the guest of honor at the Tutorial Project\u2019s 40th anniversary celebration. He\u00a0told the Johns Hopkins\u00a0Gazette<\/em>\u00a0at the time: \u201cThe thing about it I\u2019m most proud of is that getting involved in the tutoring really changed the lives of the people involved. And this is what we tried to do, to relate people in a helping way to the city.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Wickwire died a decade later, the same year his Tutorial Project turned 50.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, approximately 130 Johns Hopkins undergrads are working with an equal number of Baltimore elementary schoolers in twice-weekly afternoon tutoring sessions that focus on improving the kids\u2019 math and reading skills, notes Young Song, the director of the Tutorial Project for the past 12 years. Buses pick up students from six Baltimore elementary schools, while other students arrive on their own by car.<\/span><\/p>\n

Song says the Tutorial Project is one of the most consistently popular extracurricular options at Johns Hopkins and, for many, a defining experience of their undergraduate lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Laxmi Slider \u201908 became part of the Tutorial Project on her first day as an undergraduate studying biomedical engineering<\/a> and remained involved until she graduated.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI love kids, so getting involved was a no-brainer,\u201d says Slider, who served as <\/span>a tutor, organizer, and\u2014eventually\u2014program assistant. \u201cI got great fulfillment seeing the kids grow and improve. Nothing gave me more joy than a tutee who would come running up to hug me and show me how they aced their homework or test.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Arianne Sevilla Barrington \u201912, who grew up in a close-knit family of eight children in Los Angeles, was attracted to the Tutorial Project because of the opportunity to be around children. \u201cI was drawn by seeing all the little kids playing around Levering Hall and the community feel of the whole thing. And once I was involved in tutoring individual children, <\/span>I stayed on because they came to feel like family,\u201d says the chemical and biomolecular engineering<\/a> major, who went on to work as a software consultant for Accenture.<\/span><\/p>\n

She vividly recalls riding the school bus home with the children after a tutoring session. \u201cI remember going through certain communities and thinking, \u2018Wow, this is hard,\u2019\u201d says Barrington. \u201cThere are definitely differences between the campus and other parts of the city, and that ride home was an opportunity to traverse that. It showed me that the Tutorial Project was a chance to take down those walls that people sometimes feel between Hopkins and the surrounding community. These experiences definitely gave me a heart for Baltimore City.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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