RE: Extra-curricular consulting

[Eric Crump <eric@serv1.ncte.org>]

So maybe the amount of extra-curricular business writing consultants are
getting is a sign worth heeding. Maybe that's your constituency expressing
its preferences. Your writers perhaps would rather seek assistance in less
formal settings and at times more convenient to them. One response might
be to try to nip that in the bud, try to force them to seek help at a time
& place more convenient for the institution. 

Another response might be to shift the writing center's approach and
*count* those extra-curricular meets and writing center tutorials.
Instead of paying tutors to sit in an empty writing center, pay them to
get out among the students & tutor them where they are. That way, you meet
the needs of your constituency *and* get institutional credit for it. 

Just an idea...

--Eric Crump