When the pandemic closed Williams’ campus in the spring of 2020, Allie Campbell ’21 started tutoring elementary and middle school students remotely from her hometown in New Hampshire. She returned to Williams in the fall, eager to connect with young students in a practical, hands-on way. She signed on as a writing fellow with the Williams Center at Mount Greylock, a 10-year-old collaboration between the local high school and Williams’ Center for Learning in Action (CLiA).
In a typical year, 30 to 40 Williams students, through CLiA, visit classes in person several times per week, helping Mount Greylock students with assignments in all subjects, from writing to Latin to math. The Williams students share notetaking techniques, assist with locker organization or quietly do their own homework alongside a student, among other activities. But with the pandemic restricting travel off campus and Mount Greylock students alternating between remote and in-person learning the Williams