Re: help! looking for peers

[Charlene Hirschi <hirschi@cache.net>]

Beth, Have you check out, Writing Centers in Context, Twelve Case Studies,
by Joyce Kinkead and Jeanette Harris, Eds. (1993)?  I think you will find it
very helpful in seeing how your WC stacks up against other programs.


At 11:36 AM 2/3/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Well, I have a meeting with the dean and my dept. chair today (my
>first with the new dean).  And suddenly I've learned that the dean
>will want to know how our writing center compares with the writing
>centers of our peer institutions.  This is research I've been meaning
>to do, but hadn't started in earnest yet. (I have talked to several of
>you informally, and will no doubt talk to more of you soon!)  
>
>If you are at a peer institution, or at another school in Alabama,
>could you let me know how our writing centers compare?
>
>My institution: The University of Alabama in Huntsville
>
>Southern, public university
>8,000 students; a few M.A. and Ph.D. programs (mostly in the sciences)
>largely a commuter school
>
>
>The UAH Writing Center: 
>
>staffed by mostly undergrads, a few grads, from diff. disciplines
>work with writers across the university, not just remedial or fyc 
>about 19 writing consultants work 4 hrs./week or less, hourly wage
>directed by a faculty member (w/some course release time)
>
>
>My meeting is at 3p, but even if you can't respond on such short
>notice, I'd be grateful to hear from you.
>
>Thanks in advance--
>
>Beth Young
>
>Dr. Beth Rapp Young
>U of Alabama in Huntsville
>YoungBR@email.uah.edu
>
>
>
>
Charlene Hirschi
Utah State University
Logan, UT

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