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Media Gallery
Writing Center
Andrew Harris Commons
⭐ Writing Center
Fifty undergraduate Writing Center peer tutors, from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds, support undergraduate course students with their academic, professional, and personal writing projects in an inclusive, productive, comfortable, confidential, and distraction-free peer-tutoring environment. Tutors work to engage students in a dialogue that meets the immediate needs of their writing project while also supporting their development as writers. From reviewing assignments, brainstorming, and getting organized, to forming an argument, revising, and citing sources, peer writing tutors can assist students at any point in the writing process.
⭐ Andrew Harris Commons
Marked by a large plaque and five black marble monuments, the Commons, is located on the green surrounded by the Davis Center, the Terrill Building, Marsh Life Sciences and the Bailey-Howe Library. Harris, one of the first African-Americans to attend college in the United States, graduated from UVM in 1838.
After graduating from UVM, Harris was ordained as a Presbyterian minister and became a powerful voice of the abolitionist movement. In May of 1839 he delivered a provocative speech to a crowd 5,000 at the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City calling for an end to slavery. His influence continued to grow after he joined the ministry. He served as a pastor at the largest free African-American community in upstate New York and later at the black Presbyterian church on St. Mary Street in Philadelphia. Harris died young at age 27, as his influence and fame were on the rise.
After graduating from UVM, Harris was ordained as a Presbyterian minister and became a powerful voice of the abolitionist movement. In May of 1839 he delivered a provocative speech to a crowd 5,000 at the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City calling for an end to slavery. His influence continued to grow after he joined the ministry. He served as a pastor at the largest free African-American community in upstate New York and later at the black Presbyterian church on St. Mary Street in Philadelphia. Harris died young at age 27, as his influence and fame were on the rise.
