Outreach to faculty

[tarversj@winthrop.edu (JO KOSTER TARVERS)]

WINTHROP UNIVERSITY                               Electronic Mail Message
                                        Date:     21-May-1997 07:38pm EST 
                                        From:     Josephine K. Tarvers
                                                  TARVERSJ
                                        Dept:     English
                                        Tel No:   (803) 323-4557

TO:  Remote Addressee                     ( _smtp%"wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu" )

Subject: Outreach to faculty

Mickey,
	Several of the best ways I have found in reaching out to faculty are, 
first, to go to new faculty orientation each fall armed with flyers, freebies, 
and offers of help (including help for them as they start writing for 
publication). I'd attribute at least a quarter of our increase in students over 
the last two years to students coming in from these new faculty members' 
courses.
	Second, I made a pitch to the features editor of our student newspaper 
to supply one column a month on writing. We did topics like "how to write a grad 
school application essay," "how to write an essay exam," "top ten myths about 
writing", etc.--timely topics that came to her prepackaged (edited, 
spell-checked, already on disk). Not only did students react positively to this, 
but we got a lot of positive feedback from faculty on it, too. 
	We send one flyer to every teaching faculty member (but then, our 
faculty is a lot smaller than yours is), and a separate letter with copies of 
our flyer to every faculty member teaching a writing-intensive course each term. 
Our HR office provides the labels for free, and the copying cost is borne by the 
English Department and Student Services. Since we have relatively few students 
the first day or two of appointments, our tutors do the "fold, stick, and 
rubberband" routine for us and we put the announcements in campus mail.
	Of course, now that there is e-mail, we can also e-mail the faculty with 
announcements....

Hope these help!

Jo
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Jo Koster Tarvers
Department of English and Writing Center
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC 29733 USA
(803-323-4557 voice) (803-323-4837 fax)
tarversj@winthrop.edu