Writing Center and WAC

[NFORTIN@NICKEL.LAURENTIAN.CA]

Hello everyone,
I would like your ideas, comments, words of wisdom, etc. on the 
following:  how closely should a WAC program and a writing center be 
linked?  Here at Laurentian, we have a Center for Academic Writing which 
serves the entire student population.  We do some remedial work but very 
little.  For the most part, we serve students enrolled in WAC courses 
in many disciplines.  We have some 74 WAC courses for some 4,000 
students.  Should we consider the Writing Center as an integral part of 
WAC (granted writing assistance is a necessary component of WAC but in my view 
not sufficient?) or should the Center exist in spite of WAC?  What do you 
all see as advantages or disadvantages of linking it or not linking it 
to WAC?  Am I wrong in thinking that the WAC program should use the 
services of the Writing Center but not own them?  Hope you can help me 
see things more clearly.  Thanks beforehand for your comments, 
suggestions, insights, etc.

Normand Fortin