Re: help! looking for peers

["Jean L. Kiedaisch" <jkiedais@zoo.uvm.edu>]

Beth, my school is about the same size, the same in having MA programs 
and some PhD programs (also mostly in the sciences); we use all undergrad 
tutors, 20-30 of them, and also insist on a "not just remedial" 
description.  Tutors come from various disciplines, are trained in a 
3-credit course in the fall and a follow-up 1-credit course in the 
spring.  We emphasize working with first-year students, but that's not 
all we do (we work with some first-year seminars, by no means all of 
them).  The director (me) is fulltime, teaches the training courses and 
sometimes another course as well (this is negotiated with the director of 
our umbrella organization, The Learning Cooperative), is non-tenure 
track.  If you can think of anything else, let me know.  Good luck in 
your meeting.  Jean Kiedaisch

On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Beth Rapp Young 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
> 
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