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What other changes have been made to the staffing or administration of the writing center? (n=95)

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  • 2 FT staff positions were added
  • New Writing Center director was hired
  • Supervisor Reduced from 2 to 1
  • Staff changes
  • Role of Associate Director was increased and a Designated Tutor Coordinator was hired
  • Responsibilities reassigned to assistant dean.
  • Reporting structure changed. The writing center coordinator no longer reports to the Writing Program Director and Center for Teaching & Learning Director (dual reporting structure), but now reports to the Executive Director for the Faculty Development Center (the Center for Teaching & Learning no longer exists). We are also part of the Center for Academic Success, our learning and academic skills center. The CAS hired a full-time staff position to support English Language Learners, but that position is not within the writing center itself.
  • professional tutor picked up responsibility for coordinating peer tutors
  • Professional assistant director position (full time, M.A. required) was cut and a part-time program program assistant was added (para-professional)
  • Organizational chart changed
  • One Co-Director position changed from 10-mth to 12-mth
  • New director was hired
  • The Assistant Director position for the academic resource center was eliminated.
  • New director hired June 2018
  • new Director hired in 2016
  • New director
  • my situation as coordinator is unusual in that I have a blended position which makes me full-time, so when I say my position was "converted to full" time, what I mean is the institition found a way to combine my dual positions (I am both Writing Center Coordintor and Student Support Services Advisor) into a full-time position. I used to be a blended part-time employee (same roles, but working part time
  • Load Reassignment for directing was cut from 6 credits (2 classes) to 3 credits
  • intensive increase in mentor training
  • Head of Research for Library became co-lead of Studio; Assistant Director position added
  • Graduate Writing Center opened
  • Full time academic staff/asst coordinator position was approved in 2012-13 and filled twice; currently it is vacant but filled by a 75% grad student. rently
  • Technical editor position (serving graduate students only) was moved to another division. Full-time staff assistant/associate director position was eliminated. Secretary position was eliminated, and program support coordinator position was added.
  • The Assistant Director was converted to Director and an Assistant Director was hired
  • Director of Tutoring and Writing Center created
  • The writing center lost it part-time secretary.
  • Writing Center Director now oversees the Tutoring Center in its entirity. Not just the writing center.
  • Writing Center Coordinator position was created and hired
  • Writing Center administrator was asked to teach half-time in the English Department
  • we lost a senior staff position
  • We hired an administrative assistant and created 2 post-doc positions: one to run graduate services, the other to manage the writing fellows program. Funding for one post-doc continues.
  • we hired a part time staff assistant, recent graduate.
  • We added new discipline-specific consultants.
  • Wa Fellow added
  • They specially hired a WC specialist as part of a TT position within the English Department. I then had to argue for the "Writing Center Director" title after the fact.
  • The writing center created and hired a full-time program coordinator to assist with the administration of the writing center.
  • The center director position was converted to a tenure line, but also a tenured line, so a FT-TT faculty was hired; the former director was kept with the same job but new title: Lead Faculty.
  • The writing center absorbed the campus ESL Writing Lab.
  • The WC director position was combined with several other jobs to consolidate functions into one position: teaching writing in summer bridge, supervising the Speaking Space, and teaching developmental writing
  • The previous tenure-line director retired and a new one was hired for Fall 2013
  • The position of Professional Writing Consultant was created.
  • The long-time (20+ years) director retired and was replaced by an interim director for one year. A permanent director was named at the end of the interim year.
  • The founding director retired--was full-time, tenured, but half-time WCD. A half-time replacement was hired for the WC. She left after one year. Current WCD was appointed--had been adjunct faculty in Rhetoric, and appointment was made full-time non-tenure track.
  • The faculty person who overseas the Writing Center has changed.
  • The director of the Academic Success Center serves as the director.
  • The director became an administrator and the associate director took on more of the day-to-day administrative responsibility for the center
  • Director's course releases were increased from 1 per semester to 3, in line with the QEP, and consultant positions were added
  • Director of ARC moved into different positions (Liberal Arts Chair, then Lead of BFA Creative Writing and Dir of Accreditation
  • 2018 A Lead tutor was created to help promote our Writing Center
  • a full-time coaching specialst staff postiion was added
  • A part-time writing center staff position was converted to a full-time staff position.
  • a new WC director was hired (position was existing)
  • A new position, Coordinator of Tutoring Services, was created that combined the Writing Center's director position with the coordination of other tutoring services on campus.
  • A new Associate Director was hired
  • a half-time graduate writing specialist was hired in 2016
  • a graduate writing coordinator position was created.
  • A Graduate Writing Center Coordinator was hired--tenured, full professor, 2 course release
  • a full-time writing center assistant director position was created and hired (a staff role)
  • a full-time staff position was eliminated; work-study students were added to cover the front desk
  • A full-time Associate Director of Curriculum Development was hired
  • A previous Assistant Director position was converted into an Academic Resources Coordinator position.
  • A full-time assistant director position was created.
  • A full-time Assistant Director of the Program position was created and hired, with responsibility for overseeing the Writing Center
  • A full-time administrative staff position was created and hired.
  • a full time office manager was added
  • A full time English faculty member position wwas created to support composition that includes oversight of the Writing Center
  • a full time assistant director position was created and hired
  • A full time Assistant Director position was added
  • A co-director was hired (Director of Academic Engagement)
  • 3 Assistant Directors were hired: Assistant Director of STEM, Assistant Director of Writing, and Assistant Director of Business, Languages, and Social Sciences; all 3 Assistant Directors report to the Associate Dean, who also serves as Director of the Academic Success Center
  • A permanent (part-time) Administrative Associate position was created for office support; the Director position changed from 2 faculty co-directors (25% reassigned time each) to 1 director (50% reassigned time).
  • Added a coordinator
  • Director no longer teaches; has less academic training (was Masters in Education, now a BA in English)--but this is an interim position until we make permanent arrangements.
  • Associate director added in F16
  • coordoinator position was created/hired
  • Co-coordinator resigned, so WC Coordinator position became one person's responsibility
  • Changes in director
  • change in director of the Writing Center
  • Center was created; interim director position created and staffed by PT English faculty > converted to FT NT
  • center closes and a completely new dept. with all new people was created
  • by "professional" I am indicating the faculty consultants were dropped or decreased
  • Became multiliteracy center
  • Associate Director created
  • Assistant Director position was added (faculty, non-tenure)
  • added a half time staff specialist who splits time between tutoring and admin support
  • assistant director position was added
  • Assistant Director and Coordinators for Adult and Graduate Programs
  • An adjunct faculty member was replaced by a FT-TT faculty member as director
  • Administrative positions for graduate student tutors were created
  • Administrative assistant became part of the Learning Commons, with only partial responsibility for the Writing Center
  • Additional staff FTE have been added.
  • Addition of a Part-Time Administrative Assistant position
  • added two coordinator positions for the undergrad and graduate writing centers
  • added a night coordinator position
  • Writing Center Director responsibilities moved from one faculty member to another.

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