Re: Writing Center and WAC--reply

[ilene rubenstein <ilene.rubenstein@email.csun.edu>]

Muriel Harris wrote:

> For those of you who do help with writing in various
> disciplines in this informal way, do you publicize that help?


M-- Our center--which is not connected to the English dept.-- used to
have a full-blown WAC program, and then lost funding.  We didn't want to
lose contact, or completely let the program die, but without money.... 
Two shoestring techniques we've tried concern already established
meetings.  Every year, our university has a mandatory "new faculty"
orientation program, so we always get ourselves on the agenda and
proudly display our wares (techniques/approaches/etc.).  Every year,
too, the university sponsors a faculty retreat (open to all faculty),
and we also get ourselves on that agenda, presenting workshops on
developing assignments, writing in large clsses, etc. (all in the
context of using the wc).  And, since all departments have their own
mandatory monthly meetings, we try (not always successfully) to  get on
an agenda the 2nd meeting of the semester.  Doesn't cost much.  I'm able
to manipulate consultant hours to help prepare and present programs--or
respond to the requests we get for classroom follow-ups.  Not the
greatest process, but it gets us "out there," and the f2f meetings seem
to excite/entice faculty to work with us more than a flyer does.
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Ilene Rubenstein    LRC Writing Programs Coordinator
CSU, Northridge     ilene.rubenstein@csun.edu
http://WWW.CSUN.Edu:80/~hflrc006/ep1.html