From Praxis: "California community colleges were especially hard hit by higher education funding cuts. Diane Putnam explains that those cuts are profoundly affecting the Cabrillo College Writing Center, its students, and its tutors. A year ago, the Writing Center at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California was at the top of its game."
Name of center: Community Writing Center Institutional affiliation: Salt Lake Community College Location: Salt Lake City, Utah Web address: http://www.slcc.edu/wc/community/ Director: Tiffany Rousculp Year opened: 2001 History: The basic idea for the Community Writing Center emerged during a tennis match.
"The Writing Instructor is a peer-reviewed journal publishing in print since 1981 and on the Internet since June, 2001. Its distinguished editorial board consists of over 150 scholars- teachers- writers representing over 75 universities, community colleges, and K-12 schools. For more information about acceptance rates, the anonymous peer-review process, guidelines for review committees, and the editorial board, please read our Editorial FAQs or contact us."
Links to all of the WAC Bibliographies on the following topics:
Writing in the Disciplines
Writing to Learn
Program Design
Faculty Concerns
WAC in Two-Year Colleges
WAC in the Schools
WAC in the Disciplines
WAC Assessment
Pedagogy
Writing Processes
Writing Conventions
Genre
Research
WAC and Writing Centers/Learning Centers
Writing Fellows Programs
WAC and Second-Language Writing
Service and Experiential Learning
Literacy
Community
Inquiry
Technology
Discourse Analysis
Graduate Students
a report from Cs on materials development; a report from Cs on "Writing Lab Possibilities as the Small College/University; a discussion of staffing (undergrad, grad peers; professional; faculty; self-instruction) for materials-centered vs. student-centered labs (i.e. the difference between teaching more students with fewer staff vs. offering one-on-one support); a 4Cs report on "Setting up a Writing Lab";
Position statements on graduate student writing center administration, two-year college writing centers, disabilities, diversity, and racism/anti-immigration/linguistic intolerance.
This video, produced by Mountwest Community and Technical College, demonstrates a typical tutoring session, including the greeting, the assessment of the student's needs, the creation of an agenda, the evaluation of the writing, the confirmation of the student's ideas, and the creation of a plan of action.
From Praxis: "Writing centers are feeling the effects of budget reductions across higher education nationwide. Like other student services that don't offer credits or produce revenue, writing centers are particularly vulnerable to budget cuts. Community colleges, four-year colleges, and universities across the country are asking writing centers to make hard choices- choices that will affect consultant hiring, pay, and benefits as well as hours of operation, services, technological resources, and administration."