For 2025, WT Community Resilience Corps celebrated AmeriCorps Week from March 9 - 15, to recognize and thank the AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers now serving as WT CRC Fellows who raise their hands to help when needed.
Kim Seward, a WT CRC Fellow who joined the program in 2023, is a retired WT math professor. Wanting to find something part-time to get her out of the house, keep her mind active, and help her community, she decided to apply to the program.
Through WT CRC, Kim served in a Mentor & Support role with WT’s Tutoring Services. WT’s Tutoring Services is a free, appointment-based, one-on-one and pair/group tutoring program for students. Core-curriculum subjects in the math and science areas are covered but are not limited to these subjects.
“I really enjoy supporting students in math and strongly believe in getting the word out for Tutoring Services,” Kim said. “I call myself an ‘Academic Resource Coach’ sometimes. I connect students with places like the Writing Center and the Math Lab and I like making those connections.”
Another part of Kim’s role was helping with outreach for WT’s Tutoring Services. She’s connected with specific student groups such as WT’s student veterans, F1RST GEN, and Buff CARES.
“I like being able to zoom into those specific groups where they’re very serious about completing their studies, but may have something working against them,” Kim said. “Some students don’t know about Tutoring Services or may need encouragement to ask for help. I tell them, ‘You’re smart coming in,’ cause if they don’t come in right at the beginning, then it just snowballs.”
Kim moved to the area to go to WT “way back many years ago” when she was 19 years old and never left. She says what’s she’s doing now is like a scaled-down version of what she used to do as a professor at the university.
“WT CRC is the right mix of still being able to get out there and do stuff, but not on that intense full-time grind,” Kim said. “I feel like these services are hugely in my wheelhouse. I just like helping students. It almost feels effortless in a sense.”