Tutoring professionals, student tutors, supplemental instruction leaders, faculty, and staff from higher education institutions are invited to attend the fourth annual Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction Institute: Strengthening Learning Environments, on Friday, April 11, at Wayne State University. This institute provides an opportunity to meet, share ideas, and learn new skills/techniques for working with students.

The conference is sponsored by the WSU Academic Success Center, with support from the Comerica Charitable Foundation.
The keynote speaker for the conference is Professor Steve Kahn. He is director of the WSU Center for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics, a series of programs designed to produce success for Detroit students as they pursue their education from elementary and middle school through high school and college. Built by Kahn, the two cornerstone programs of the Center for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics, the WSU Math Corps at the middle and high school levels and the WSU Emerging Scholars Program at the college level, have received not only local, but statewide recognition for their dramatic results.

Kahn has received many honors and awards for teaching, as well as for his work in support of the Detroit Public Schools and the students of Detroit. Most recently, the Michigan Section of the Mathematical Association of America awarded him the prestigious 2003 Distinguished College or University Teaching Award. A part of the Wayne State faculty since 1981, Kahn holds a bachelor's in Mathematics from SUNY at Stonybrook, and master's and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from the University of Maryland.

The conference will be held on the main campus of Wayne State University in the McGregor Memorial Conference Center. Registration is free but seating is limited; lunch is included with registration. Information about the conference, including the call for proposals and registration instructions, are available at: http://www.success.wayne.edu/TutoringSIInstitute.php

Wayne State University is a premier institution of higher education offering more than 350 academic programs through 11 schools and colleges to more than 33,000 students.