Tu Tutor

For the past eight years University students have graced the Baltazar Ortiz Community Center, in the Killings-worth neighborhood near campus, thrice weekly as tutors, teachers, ad-visors, friends, and quasi aunts and uncles to the Center’s elementary and middle-school students. Primary concerns for the young students? Computer skills, games, and, most of all, help with homework — the pressing concern of every schoolchild on this wild planet. The deft Oregon photo-grapher Steve Hambuchen recently trailed along with students from The Bluff and caught these entertaining moments. For information on this and the University’s other 32 student volunteer programs: 503-943-7132, or email cheerful director Tom Frieberg at frieberg@up.edu.

The Office of Volunteer Services offers more than three dozen volunteer opportunities every year, including the tutoring program at the Ortiz Community Center. Make a gift in support of volunteer services to support outreach into the local community and beyond and give students immeasurable personal and real-world experiences with a variety of needy populations.