NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2000--

Leading Online Learning Community Partners With World's Largest Provider of Internet Software and Services Devoted to Higher Education

Tutor.com (www.tutor.com), the world's leading online learning community enabler, has formed a strategic partnership with Jenzabar, the world's largest provider of Internet infrastructure and services devoted exclusively to higher education.

Tutor.com's tutor network will now be available to campuses using the Jenzabar suite of technology and infrastructure solutions. This partnership makes tutor.com the exclusive online tutor provider on over 1000 campuses.

"At tutor.com, we are dedicated to creating online communities for learners and tutors. Working together with Jenzabar's Internet Operating System, we will allow thousands of colleges and universities to have their own online communities to connect their students with on-campus tutors or access tutor.com's database of over 17,000 tutors," says George Cigale, CEO of tutor.com.

"Jenzabar's power is its ability to bring a world of connected services to the fingertips of campus learning communities around the globe," says Ling Chai, CEO of Jenzabar. "As the largest provider of Internet infrastructure to higher education, Jenzabar is continuously seeking to partner with industry leaders in order to provide a seamlessly integrated end-to-end learning solution for our client institutions. Jenzabar is extremely pleased to be working with tutor.com, the Internet's definitive resource for supplemental learning and teaching."

Through this partnership with tutor.com, Jenzabar will now be able to offer a co-branded tutor network matching the look and feel of each of the college sites. Within this co-branded environment, students can find a tutor and engage in an online tutoring session, or select a tutor on-campus for an in-person session. In addition, users wishing to join the online teaching community can simply click a button and sign up. The co-branded site will allow creation of an individual's personalized tutor-profile, listing field of expertise and cost per lesson to register.

The partnership with Jenzabar is an example of the turn-key solution that tutor.com offers its partners. Tutor.com partners can customize their offerings by selecting the subjects or locations to be offered to their online community, as well as setting the criteria for acceptable tutors. Tutor.com provides support through daily contact with tutors, guaranteeing a higher quality of instructor. In addition, the partner sites are included on tutor.com's Resource Pages and Partner Pages, driving traffic to the partner site.

About tutor.com
Founded in 1999 in partnership with The Princeton Review, tutor.com matches learners anytime, anywhere with educators for on- and off-line learning on a comprehensive list of subjects. Tutor.com allows learners to easily search an extensive database of more than 17,000 registered tutors in approximately 400 subjects, both academic and non-academic. The first distance learning company to offer instant real-time online connections between tutors and learners through its fastMatch(TM) virtual classroom, tutor.com also offers tutors the opportunity to teach from any setting, on any subject, at any time. Students select tutors by multiple criteria including subject and hourly fee as well as teaching philosophies, academic and teaching qualifications and reviews from previous students.

About Jenzabar
By improving the exchange of information through powerful business intelligence applications and services, Jenzabar's Internet enterprise software, e-learning solutions, and services deliver a competitive edge to higher education institutions. Dedicated to supporting and enhancing the educational community, Jenzabar's business units serve 700 higher education institutions worldwide, including students, professors, and administrators from private liberal arts, medical, law, state, and community colleges. Institutions employing Jenzabar solutions include The Claremont Colleges, Colby College, Daytona Beach Community College, William Mitchell College of Law, Governors State University, Bluffton College, Florida Southern College, Bay de Noc Community College, Berry College, and Harvard Medical School.

Jenzabar's offerings include Web-based enterprise software with student, institutional advancement, human resources, and financial applications; e-learning solutions; and a higher education enterprise information portal (EIP). Founded in 1998, Jenzabar is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and currently employs more than 300 people in regional offices across the United States.

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Contacts:
LaForce & Stevens, New York
Katharine L'Heureux, 212/242-9353, ext. 185
Ilissa Wood, 212/242-9353, ext. 19