hiring non-English major consultants

["Dana D. Escobio" <descobio@jaguar1.usouthal.edu>]

Like so many other subscribers to WCenter, I find the responses and 
messages very helpful, and actually a valuable part of some of the 
decisions we've made in the last year or so.

So here I go again, asking for your help/insight:  how many of you out there 
staff your labs with graduate assistants from departments other than 
English?  We've always had English g.a.'s, but we're so 
short-staffed that we're thinking about requesting g.a.'s from other 
departments, if that's possible.  Also, if any of you did have to go through 
the steps of asking for non-English g.a.'s, what rationale/justification 
did you use?

This is new for us.  Only in the last few years have we started hiring 
peer tutors to take some of the work load off of the backs of our 
over-worked g.a.'s from our English department.  Any help or insight about 
this would be appreciated and can be e-mailed or snail-mailed.


Dana Escobio
descobio.jaguar1.usouthal.edu
University of South Alabama Writing Lab
Alpha Hall East, room 207
Mobile, AL  36688-0002