Re: Tutoring across the Curriculum

[Catherine_Imbriglio@postoffice.brown.edu]

Karen:

A point of clarification:  _Which_  Brown University model?

Catherine

>The Pacific Coast Writing Center Association Conference on November 2,
>1996 will focus on such models and other WC models--and how all of us
>deal with training, campus politics, and "translating" across the curriculum.
>
>I have had a WAC-based WC since 1991 (piloted in 1990), modeled after
>the Brown University model with slight variations for a small liberal
>arts university. Let me know how and what specifics you would like.
>
>Karen Vaught-Alexander
>University of Portland
>karenva@uofport.edu
>
>On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, CRUEA, SUSAN wrote:
>
>>      I'm somewhat new to the wcenter list, so forgive me if this is
>>      something that has been discussed before.  I'm the director of the
>>      TULIP Center (Tiffin University Learning Improvement Program) at TU.
>>      Our center started as a writing lab last year and expanded this year
>>      to include tutoring in all courses offered at TU (math, history,
>>      econ., law enforcement, computer, you name it.....)  We hired tutors,
>>      recommended by faculty members, to tutor in the various specialties.
>>      Are there other centers out there which tutor across the curriculum
>>      instead of specializing in just writing?  Have they been successful?
>>      I'd be interested in finding other centers like us, if they exist, to
>>      establish a dialog with.  Anybody out there?
>>
>>      Thanks!
>>      Susan Cruea
>>      scruea@tiffin.edu
>>
>>


Catherine Imbriglio
Coordinator of the Writing Center
Box 1852 English
Brown University
Providence RI 02912
Catherine_Imbriglio@Brown.edu