Welcome TLC Members and Applicants!
The Tufts Literacy Corps was established in 1998, when President Bill Clinton introduced the America Reads Challenge and authorized college students across the nation to use their Federal Work Study awards to help children learn to read. Since then, the Federal program has expanded to include mathematics, writing and science. The Tufts Literacy Corps, too, has grown into three core tutoring groups (reading, writing, mathematics/science) and several student run initiatives.
Join the TLC for the 2025-2026 academic year! 
If you’d like to join one of our tutoring teams this year, please browse through our website to learn more about the programs we offer. Interested? Just fill out a Tufts Literacy Corps Application , email it to Cynthia.Krug@tufts.edu, and sign up for an interview here.
The interview link is: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/91939036347; Passcode: 361324
Tutoring
Resources
Please click on TLC Resources if you’re looking for tutoring resources and updates on scheduling and event planning.
Literacy & the Arts
Literacy & the Arts is a summer literacy program created in 2010. If you are interested in spending a full time month working with children this summer, please click here to learn more about the program.
Literacy & the Arts Showcase, 2020
If you’re interested in Literacy & the Arts, please take a look at the Literacy & the Arts Showcase from 2020. Literacy & the Arts always ends with a showcase designed to celebrate the children’s work. In 2020, the summer of the pandemic, we took Literacy & the Arts and its showcase online. The program was very different that summer, as our campers and counselors worked together from their living rooms in Somerville, Colorado, Rome, Jerusalem and Beijing. One aspect of the program was the same, though: the wide variety of projects the children pursued. Now almost five years later, the zoom-based offers a glimpse of the work children do with their tutors during the program. We hope you enjoy this presentation!