Re: Off-Campus Clients

[Clinton Gardner <cgardner@englab.slcc.edu>]

Latisha LaRue wrote:
> 
> Patricia,
>         This relates exactly to a notion about Owl webpages Eric Crump
> was discussing the other day.  Do you mention on your webpage that
> priority will be given to campus clients?  Do any of you with web pages
> advertising Owl service do that?  I'm considering adding it to ours.
>                         Katie Fischer
[SNIPPED]

On out (Salt Lake Community College Writing Center's) pages we make it
very clear that in-person student writers have priority over on-line or
e-mail students (http://www.slcc.edu/wc (see Writing tutoring link). 
I'm not certain, however, how long this policy will last...if the number
of on-line clients picks up it may be fruitless.  We've never had to
delay anyone who is reaching us via technological means for more than 1
day.  
Here's the tough nut that I think that these messages are attempting to
crack:

What if the number of "community" patrons (a term used early on in this
thread) overwhelms the number of campus patrons?  While I do not see
this happening for SLCC Writing Center, I think it may happen for some
other places....how do we justify using campus funds for a service that
is used by an "unpaying" community?  

I have some ideas on this...but will defer to the list.

;)

--clint gardner
SLCC Writing Center Instructional Support Coordinator

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