University program preps first-generation college students

June 21, 2013

The program will train University undergraduates to tutor and mentor eleventh graders this fall to prepare them for college math, said Clarkson, the program’s principal investigator . . . 

U gets funds for new math education program

June 17, 2013

Clarkson said getting students interested in math is important because it’s becoming a necessary skill in many careers. “Math is just not optional anymore,” Clarkson said. “It’s so easy to give up when you don’t have the support when you’re trying to learn math . . . ”

3M and the University of Minnesota: together, we make the world a better place

November 20, 2018

3M is a generous supporter of Prepare2Nspire, a near-peer math tutoring, and mentoring program. Under the program, U of M undergraduates studying STEM subjects tutor 11th-graders who, in turn, tutor 8th-graders in an urban underserved neighborhood of Minneapolis . . .