Re: Grad Students -- where do they come from?

["maryann" <32b5oco@cmich.edu>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Kimberly Abels <kabels@email.unc.edu>


Kim,
    I agree that non-English majors can bring diversity of experience and
expertise to the writing center.  You mentioned developing policy/procedures
for recruiting such students
graduate (or even undergraduate) students from outside the English Dept.
Could you explain those a bit more?
    Thanks,

>wrote a proposal to revise the hiring process to put it within my
>control and then designed a hiring strategy that recruits grad
>students from across campus.  The new staff has worked very well
>together and provides a diversity and synergy in the center that all
>value.    While it is a political issue, arguments highlighting the
>"good of the university" and the reiterating the mission of the
>writing center worked here.