RE: Center Structure

[Molly Wingate <MWingate@ColoradoCollege.edu>]

Gail
Yours sounds similar to the writing center at Bucknell University in
Lewisburg, PA.  717-524-3141.  
MOlly Wingate
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gail.Tubbs@washcoll.edu [SMTP:Gail.Tubbs@washcoll.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 27, 1999 10:08 AM
> To:	wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu
> Subject:	Center Structure
> 
> Dear WCenter Friends,
> At our request, for the purpose of salary review, the Vice President for
> Finance at Washington College is casting about for  schools whose writing
> centers are comparable to ours in structure. The college has about 1,200
> students. The Center, which has been in existence since 1983, is staffed
> by three full-time writing instructors, one of whom acts as Director, a
> part-time instructor, who comes in 9 hours a week, and a corps (varying in
> size between 6 and 12) of part-time peer tutors, who have completed the
> four-credit, one-semester Internship in Writing Theory and the Conference
> that we offer each fall.
> Though all three of us teach this, and two of us teach two other courses
> as well out of the Education Department, we do not have faculty status. We
> are considered "academic staff," and our salaries are determined by
> workload, merit, and the "going rate" for the kind of work we do in peer
> institutions.
> 
> In addition to being available to any member of the campus community who
> would like to  talk about writing, we implement a college graduation
> requirement attached to the core freshman courses involving three
> conferences each semester in the Center. So every Washington College
> student will use the Center during the freshman year and, with luck, come
> back in subsequent years. We meet individuals and small groups working on
> collaborative projects, and we visit classes to talk about the Center,
> conduct peer review, or address any writing interest that a faculty member
> might request. We also serve as a resource for faculty who want to discuss
> ways to facilitate writing across the curriculum.
> 
> Are there any centers out there at all similar to the structure I've
> decribed? If so, we would be grateful to hear from you and pass the name
> of your institution on to the Administration here. Thanks, first for
> reading all this, and then for being in touch.
> 
> Gail Tubbs
> gail.tubbs@washcoll.edu
> Gerry Fisher
> gerry.fisher@washcoll.edu
> John Kluttz
> john.kluttz@washcoll.edu