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SMARTHINKING Partners with 23 New Institutions to Provide Students Live, On-Demand Academic Support

WASHINGTON, DC - August 16, 2005 – SMARTHINKING, the leading provider of online tutoring and academic support, announced today that it will be partnering this fall with 23 new institutions to offer their students live tutoring anytime, from anywhere. Students will receive real-time academic assistance from SMARTHINKING tutors in math, writing, chemistry, physics, biology, economics, accounting, and statistics, as well as math tutoring in Spanish. Students also can have essays critiqued and returned, usually within 24 hours, from SMARTHINKING's online writing lab – the largest in the world.

New SMARTHINKING partner institutions are as follows:

Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute, NM

Arkansas State, AR

Coastal Georgia Community College, GA

The Colorado Department of Labor, CO

Columbia State Community College, TN

Community College of Southern Nevada, NV

Duquesne University, PA

Francis Tuttle Technology Center, OK

Inver Hills Community College, MN

Iowa Community College Online Consortium, IA

Kennebec Valley Community College, ME

Mass Bay Community College, MA

Middle Tennessee State, TN

Minnesota West Community and Technical College, MN

Montana State University Great Falls College of Technology, MT

Northern Essex Community College, MA

Rochester College, MI

Rochester Institute of Technology, NY

Santa Fe Community College, FL

Southeastern University, Washington, DC

Terra Community College, OH

Walden University, MN

University of the District of Columbia, DC

"Today’s students spend more time off-campus than on and are juggling many competing demands," said Burck Smith, CEO of SMARTHINKING. "To attract and retain students, colleges are finding ways to provide services that meet students’ schedules and locations, even when faculty aren’t available. SMARTHINKING helps schools help their students."

Through the SMARTHINKING website, students may ask questions of trained, qualified tutors by "dropping-in" to SMARTHINKING's interactive whiteboard and working one-on-one with a tutor or by submitting questions for next day response. SMARTHINKING also offers an online writing lab where students can submit papers to be critiqued and returned within 24 hours. In addition, all interactions are saved permitting on-demand review and analysis by the student or institution.

More than 80% of SMARTHINKING tutors possess advanced degrees in their discipline, and all tutors have substantial instruction and teaching experience. As part of SMARTHINKING’s intensive hiring and training process, tutors participate in rigorous online training and evaluation. More than 115,000 students have had more than 500,000 tutoring sessions with SMARTHINKING tutors.

About SMARTHINKING (www.SMARTHINKING.com)

SMARTHINKING, the leading provider of online tutoring to colleges and high schools, provides live, online, easy-access tutoring to students. SMARTHINKING works with schools, colleges, universities, textbook publishers and other institutions to help educators offer students outstanding academic support. SMARTHINKING’s custom solutions improve faculty support and raise student performance by connecting students to qualified assistance anytime, from any Internet connection. SMARTHINKING clients include schools, colleges, libraries, education companies, individuals, and anyone seeking to increase student achievement. SMARTHINKING currently works with over 500 school clients and businesses. To learn more, please visit www.smarthinking.com or call 888.430.7429 ext 224.