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1. more professional development opportunities for the tutors 2. add more online resources for both students and faculty 3. tutors will be certified through a national organization 4. at least one new tutor training course being designed
There are plans to create and hire at least a part-time person to support graduate students.
The writing center has gone through several staffing and administrative changes (including 2 other directors) since it moved to the library (physically and administratively) in 2014. Now that the WCC is starting to settle into the library and now that there is a tenure line director in place, we are poised for development. Our traffic is up 28% this year, and we are now starting to think deeply about the ways in which we hope to expand to better support the writers on this campus. I anticipate that we will be growing in a number of ways. One likely way will be through increasing our curricular support, using the same model that other units of the Library use (we have an instruction department that teaches one-off information literacy/research workshops for classes, and a multimedia studio that teaches design/software). Because of this, I anticipate that as we grow we will seek to add additional faculty to the WCC to aid with full class workshops. We are also piloting a public services position in the library that is 50% Microsoft Office support and 50% Grad Thesis and Dissertation help. The WCC is overseeing this pilot position, but we anticipate using the 50% grad writing support aspect of this position to take my half time staff person and make her full.
The writing center is likely to expand, and we may need to establish stronger curricular connections to ensure quality and support tutors and clients.
The writing center is making changes to become a multiliteracy center to support digital and multimodal projects across campus (in addition to writing).
The writing center is moving from the University Success Center located in a separate, free-standing building to the main library on campus where it will be located. The writing center will become part of a Learning Commons. I do not see any other changes occurring at this time.
The writing center is probably twenty to thirty years behind current scholarship and best practices. The new director plans to bring the writing center up to date as much as possible. At very least, the training program for consultants will be significantly revised, and synchronous online consultations are likely to begin. Beyond that, it's difficult to say how much will change.
The Writing Center will merge with the ESL group. We will become a center for speaking and writing, or something similar.
The writing program and the writing center are being moved over the summer out of the English department to a new department, meaning that we'll now be housed in the same department (name TBD) as Communications and Visual Arts. This could be both good and bad; we'll see. The school is also undergoing some serious financial challenges, and as a result it is opening its admissions policies and rethinking core curriculum. The writing center will have to be on its toes in order to avoid any negative consequences of these institutional changes. Work study hours, which pay our student workers, are also being slashed due to budget reasons, meaning that we may have far fewer tutoring hours available in the upcoming years.
There are many changes afoot on campus, and the location of our center will likely change. Additionally, we are working or several programmatic changes and a new assessment plan.
There is a proposal to create a new Department of Writing Studies which may or may not happen, which, if successful, will result in an entirely different administrative structure. If this proposed change does not happen, we anticipate changes to the administrative and faculty lines within the English Department.
The writing center has a mandate to grow and expand services, including personnel and programming.
There is an anticipated increase in enrollment over the next four years that will require the writing center to grow at all levels. As a tenure-line director, I will need to increase the graduate student administrative responsibility for the center to help balance my teaching and administrative duties.
This is entirely dependent upon funding. Currently, the school is experiencing a budget crunch. The writing center is well respected and supported, but we have not been able to grow much due to lack of funding. With more revenue, we could enlarge our team and our services.
This year we will be hiring the first full-time admin assistant for the director of the WC. Until a year ago that position was a Graduate Assistant (20 hrs/wk and stipend).
Time will tell. We're now migrating from WCOnline to UpSwing as our central platform for online consultations, for example, as the Vice Provost of Academic Affairs wants all tutoring services to be integrated and streamlined. We're also working on a WAC/WID initiative. Things have been hectic and confusing since our move from the Provost's Office to Academic Affairs, so again, time will tell.
Two full-time positions created for supporting graduate writing/writing lab courses and ELL. One .5 FTE position added to administer community writing center.
We are adding another satellite and will need an Assistant Director
We are currently hiring for one FTE staff person to serve as an Assistant Director. We may be adding some administrative support as well.
We are currently in a transitional period, following the move of one of our co-directors. This change may necessitate rethinking the current co-directorship model to a director-asst. director model.
We are drafting a proposal to create a student success center that would house the writing center and subject tutoring along with other offices.
The writing center has expanded exponentially. There are opportunities for the entire structure to be rethought as a result. I am leaving for another institution, so I am not sure what will happen, but there is a good foundation.
The Writing Center Director position is currently 50/50 teaching/WC directing, and is likely to shift to 25/75 teaching/WC in a year, which will change the position category from Academic Faculty to Administrative Faculty; the position will remain TT.
We are hiring a full-time staff position to help with English Language Learners; we just expanded our physical space to provide individual office for most full-time staff.
The director will change as of Fall 2018. I don't anticipate curricular or support structures changing for another year or so as the new director acclimates herself to the position..
Recent retirements of the director's direct supervisor and possible changes in upper administration over the next few years may cause changes the support structure for the writing center.
Right now the writing center is not open. Our building flooded, and we are waiting for it to reopen.
Since the Director of ARC moved into different positions (Liberal Arts Chair, then Lead of BFA Creative Writing and Dir of Accreditation, the oversight of ARC will be delegated to other programmatic areas.
Since we have begun supporting research, reading, and writing as integrated literacies and since we shifted to a studio environment, our growth has been significant. Support structures will need to change as growth continues.
Teaching load of Director may increase, thereby decreasing services
The administrative structure of the Writing Center is likely to shift towards a more decentralized, or more horizontal structure.
The associate director's position will be made permanent. We also expect to secure more stable funding. The director will retire soon, and that may result in other changes. It's also possible that the Writing Center will relocate to a larger more visible location.
The college may start up a college-wide writing program (such as a WAC program) and that may lead to changes.
The Directorship will transfer to a Tenure-line faculty member.
The Writing Center was officially created two years ago. Writing services were pulled out of a larger support services area to become stand alone. An interim director was appointed (with minimal experience in WC development) until the college could hire a new WPA who would then assume responsibilities for building/organizing program and center. I am in the process of pulling together resources to create a WC Director position that will be filled with a full-time staff person with WC experience and MA prepared.
The English Department will no longer have oversight over the Writing Center. The Writing Center will belong to the Academic Success Center that also houses a Math Center and undergraduate tutors for other disciplines.
The full-time program coordinator position (staff) will be replaced by a full-time Assistant director position (staff). The assistant director will provide additional concierge-style appointments with multilingual writers.
The fully functional "writing center" is a new development. as time progresses, plans positions are expected to morph and grow. For example, our goal is to employ more graduate student consultants in the future.
The longtime director of the Writing Center retired in May 2018, and the assistant director has become the director. We are currently doing a self-study/self-assessment in anticipation of an external review in spring 2019. Whether or not the Writing Center remains housed in the English Department, becomes allied with other student-support services, or spearheads a writing program are all questions waiting to be solved. In the meantime, the Writing Center wants to increase outreach to faculty and build in more consistent support structures. The tutor-training course has undergone considerable revision and may continue to.
The new director will probably add an upper-level course designed specifically for peer writing consultants to augment the Peer Educator Training courses for both content tutors and writing consultants now offered (two one-credit/ credit/no credit courses). She will also collaborate with the Writing Program Administrator, the teaching center, and Instructional Design and Technology to offer faculty workshops on writing.
The new faculty position will help to develop the mission and vision of the Center to plan for enhanced services.
The person in the writing center/WAC/FYS director position has been promoted for a term as associate dean, and the writing center staffing is being temporarily reconfigured. It is likely/desirable that some of those shifts become a permanent way to have more faculty with administrative responsibilities in the writing center/WAC/FYS.
The university is planning an Academic Commons to be housed in the library, of which the Writing Center will be a part. It is unclear whether/how administrative structures and reporting lines will be affected. We are also implementing a new core curriculum, including a WAC/WID program. We are still determining how the Writing Center structure and support will change to meet the demands of this new core.
The Writing Center is very new and has undergone a lot of change over the past year or two. I anticipate the majority of changes will occur within my position over the next 4 years. I will most likely provide more support to other departments, contribute to the curriculum development process, hire additional writing consultants, develop new modes of training, offer asynchronous writing center appointments, and offer additional writing workshops. My role will likely change extensively in relation to other departments regarding academic integrity as well.
We are expanding our faculty development and WAC support.
We are hoping to increase the hours of the Senior Tutor. We are also hoping to move to the library.
Probably beginning a writing fellows program
We will probably move to a new building dedicated to WAC and become part of that effort. There will be a new director of WAC, so reporting will change.
We recently hired an assistant director and incorporated a few graduate assistantships to support the administration of the Center. We have moved in a direction to support more professional development of the consultants and create sustainable programming through a committee structure. This will likely take some time to stabilize and is occurring while our funding unit is undergoing financial difficulty, so the future is complicated.
We will be adding a graduate student as assistant director. The director will be re-classified as an academic administrator, which is a combination of a faculty and staff appointment and is a 11 over 12 month position, as opposed to a 9 or 12 month position; we will be hiring another faculty person to serve as assistant director.
We will be working to create a dedicated Writing Center over the next four years.
We will become part of a learning commons or center for student success.
We will collaborate with the English Language Center to provide a Writing fellows program to support international students.
We will continue to expand Center services to support writing in the major and Honors writing. We will continue to explore opportunities for connecting writing, speaking, and multimodal support for students. We will aim to develop a stronger connection to the external community.
We will likely explore online tutorials.
We will probably lose administrative hours.
We would like to expand our program, offering more hours to students. We also plan to change the physical look and arrangement of our Writing Center. We hope to offer more workshops to students.
We need to hire someone permanently. I hope we'll either hire someone with an MA in English specializing in WCs, or we'll name a TT faculty member the director and keep the existing staff person to manage the day-to-day operations. Accompanying these changes in administration, I'm hoping to see a higher profile and new curricular/support initiatives for the WC.
We've been asking to support our p-t professional consultant in pursuing a Master's in TESOL and converting her position to full time.
With a new director changes will occur along the lines of assessment procedures and training.
With further growth, I see many changes for the future. Satellite tutoring locations at our 10 regional campuses, a writing fellows program, an official WID program, and a faculty workshop series that is offered every semester.
With our university opening a new satellite campus for STEM and expanding abroad programs into the first year, it seems inevitable that we will need to begin offering tutoring at a satellite location and some form of (hopefully synchronous) online tutoring. We are also pushing hard to have our part-time administrative assistant position converted into a full-time assistant director position.
With the implementation of Cardinal Star, we may not need as many student employees. Our scheduling will look different than before.
With the merging of the position of Writing center coordinator and tutoring center coordinator into one coordinator's position, a move to a more central location, and a new coordinator, I anticipate implementing significant changes in the center in the years to come, that I hope will foster the growth of our center and our community.
With the new structure, the UWC is more stable and more able to add services and expand as needed.
Writing will fall into a larger, campus-wide tutoring center/success center. Staff will oversee the Writing Center rather than faculty.
Yes. Our writing center has grown and grown and grown and I'm hoping we'll bring in another faculty member to help direct the tacit WAC program we have developed.
We plan to build a learning commons which will give the Writing Center a space that we do not have to share which will result in more hours being offered in a consistent pattern. Proximity to other services will likely increase collaboration and we plan to add speech tutors to the Writing Center staff.
We need changes, but I'm not sure what the university budget will allow
We are in the middle of a budget crisis, and it's uncertain how that might change things or restrict what we are able to offer.
We are undergoing many changes, including in Student Success. Unsure how these changes will affect the Writing Center.
We are in the process of designing a Learning Commons that will be built into our existing library. The Writing Center is included as an "anchor element" of that space, so it is possible that, if this project moves forward as planned, the Writing Center will move in the next 2-3 years.
We are in the process of hiring a full-time NNT director
We are in the process of hiring a new full-time staff position to assist us in working with multilingual writers (Coordinator of Multilingual Writing Support Services). We are also currently in an expansion phase, so I fully expect that we will continue to grow.
We are in the process of hiring a new Writing Center and Online Writing Center Coordinator who will have a new vision and new ideas for improving writing services on all of our campuses.
We are looking to begin online consultations and are currently trying to determine and test the most appropriate platform to do so.
We are piloting a speaking coach program to expand to a Writing & Speaking Center
We are revamping general education, which will inevitable have effects on the center.
We are trying to convert the Asst Dir position to an Assoc Dir and remove the teaching load (1/1). We are shifting responsibilities in relation to this potential change and the hire of a coordinator. We are redesigning our Distance Consultant program. There will also be changes in relation to the management of our satellite locations at multiple campuses.
We are trying to establish a Writing Fellows program.
We are undergoing organizational changes to support our newly-announced strategic vision. This vision promises students an individualized four-year pathway facilitated by teams of mentors and infused with a rich and varied set of high impact experiences outside the classroom that include undergraduate research, study away, internships, community-focused learning, and opportunities to engage across differences. There have already been changes in our administrative and curricular support structures and we are part of several internal pilot programs in support of the new vision that will hopefully expand in the future.
We might add a Writing Fellows Program. The Writing Center will move from the Library 1st floor to a temporary location in a mobile unit due to construction for the 2018 - 2019 academic year. We expect to move back to the Library 1st floor in fall 2019.
We are very fortunate to have a lot of support from administrators on campus. We are working towards creating a professional tutor position and securing a permanent fellowship position for at least one graduate student tutor per semester.
We expect to hire an Assistant Director to help us develop partnerships with faculty across the disciplines in hopes of creating a WAC program.
We have 43 tutors to cover core disciplines. 7-11 of those tutors are for writing. We will be moving our location from residence hall to the library, on the main floor. The library is being renovated to include an open tutoring area where students can come for appointments, drop-in tutoring, or just to study (the Learning Commons idea). We plan to watch how students use the new space to determine how/if we need to modify the space or how we deliver support. We also have a new boss who is making these changes happen: This new position, the VP for Student Success, is charged with drastically increasing retention. I have been made part of this Division for Student Success's Leadership team, along with Enrollment Management, Institutional Research, Advising, and Marketing and Communications. We have also just purchased a 24/7 online tutoring vendor to cover the hours we aren't open (ThinkingStorm is the company). We will be using their platform for scheduling; Advising may also use this same platform. Also, I've stopped offering my Tutoring Writing Course because students were paying for their own training...I've now folded this former course into the hours they tutor so they are paid for their professional development. I've also recently been released from teaching to better design and lead on-going training for all the tutors (We are CRLA certified). I hope to get my tutors--all of them--presenting more at regional conferences and conducting research on our (newly named) Academic Support Center (ASC...'Need help? Just ASC!') Lots of good things going on that I hope will enhance the student experience on this campus and raise retention and graduation rates.
We have been staffing our center with adjunct faculty and professional tutors. Starting this semester I am teaching a tutor-training course for graduate and undergraduate students. These students will be able to apply for a position as a student tutor in our center in the fall. In addition our center has moved and merged with the Speaking Center (we have always been connected with the Learning Center). Now our center is the Learning, Writing, Speaking Center.
We have moved from under the direction of the College Writing Program to an Academic Commons unit, which includes all tutoring and other support services. At the moment, these various units of the Academic commons are housed in different buildings on campus, but a remodeling of the first floor of our library (which will begin this summer) will bring these various units under the same roof. I get the sense there will be an attempt to streamline services, training, policies, etc.
We have satellite campuses in other cities that will need more support. We have been integrated into the QEP in different ways. We have moved in the overall university structure---out of the Student Success Center and into the Office of Academic Affairs under the Asst. AAVP for undergraduate studies.
We hope to add more writing faculty to support the center
We hope to pilot synchronous online "drop in" sessions in the near future.
We just bought WCOnline subscription this year and are slowly adding an appointment-based culture to our existing drop-in culture. We also plan to expand our satellite locations through continued and additional embedding within student organizations that are interested in hosting us (Greek life, minority support groups, etc.)
Professional, part-time administrative assistance (5-hours per week) will be newly dedicated to Student Writing Support Services.
Previously, the Writing Center was coordinated by an Academic Counselor. In the future, the Learning Center Director will coordinate writing support, along with tutoring.
1As I noted in other places, the Dean is working to expand the Center, just renamed the Center for Global Communication+Design, as a hub of communication support and research. We hope to add more undergraduate peer consultants with experience in graphic design, website design, data visualization, graphics for game design, and more. We also hope to add undergraduate peer consultants who are fluent Mandarin speakers to tutor undergraduates taking courses in Chinese and, in the future, a lecturer who would teach L2 sections of the intro-level writing course and tutor in the Center part-time.
Demand will continue to increase, and it's not certain budget levels will keep pace with demand.
Continued growth in community-engaged projects and collaborations, which are not in the early stages of development. Full-time administrative support in the Writing Center through a reconfigured Coordinator position with 20% dedicated to professional ELL tutoring (hopefully). Or...permission to hire a part-time doctoral/postdoctoral fellow as a professional tutor who also provides mentoring and administrative support. Increased role of director in institutional assessment of writing. Perhaps more structured writing support for the FYS Program (Writing Fellows)
Continued increase in professional development for undergraduate mentors, graduate student mentors, and increased streamline in our reporting process across multiple centers on campus.
Continuing upper admin changes will likely affect the writing center, changing report lines, possibly affecting funding, and changing relationships to other units.
Cost cutting changes that affect the staffing and service model of the WC might occur...
Current administrators plan to move on to other positions. The program is also expanding, and we hope there will be an additional full-time position created.
Current Director will be considering retirement sometime in the next four years. Possible move to a "Learning Commons" model may be considered in coordination with that change.
Currently in contract negotiations. Administration might merge Writing Center Director and Writing Program Director.
Currently, my position runs both the writing center and the peer tutoring program. Both programs are robust, so I'm hoping they are unhitched so that the writing center director is a stand alone position that gets reclassified as faculty.
Expansion of center and addition of an associate director
Building a Writing Fellows program.
Expansion of our online services to include more synchronous options and expanded online support for English language learners.
Greater collaboration among the other units of the Success Center -- for instance, greater emphasis/collaboration on writing in the sciences. We will also be moving to the new library, which may mean new support structures and reporting lines.
Hope to augment contract writing consultants with full-time faculty positions.
I am not at all sure about this, but it seems like we might be headed toward a learning commons model.
I am retiring at the end of this year. I know changes are in store, but I do not know what/how they will take shape.
I anticipate that we will move into more online tutoring, and I hope to continue developing the tutor training course with our tutoring director. I also hope to grow the amount of staff positions and include more support for reading skills.
I don't have a sense of any specific changes to come, but with each new Provost our university has hired, there have been administrative changes to the Learning Center, of which the WC is part. We have frequent turn-over in the university administration (at the Provost level), so I just expect that it will happen again.
I expect changes -- but not sure as to what.
I expect we'll be absorbed into the new Center for Student Success in the next year or two. I'm not sure what that will mean for center administration, tutor training/support, etc.
Closer collaboration with campus entities
Big changes are coming to campus related to budget, space, and degree offerings. These, in addition to continued growth in international enrollment, will directly impact the Writing Center. My hope is that the Writing Center Council will help to identify new support structures and opportunities for adding innovative support services. The director position is currently contingent on applying for annual course releases to compensate for administrative time. My hope is that this position will be formalized so that the annual course release exercise is no longer necessary.
I hope that we will be adding two 16 hr/week graduate assistant positions for students who will serve as Grad Assistant Directors. One will have pedagogical and workshop responsibilities, one will have outreach and diversity-related responsibilities. Both will take on some administrative work.
After keeping electronic records regarding tutoring sessions in our own departmental software, the institution adopted an advising platform, for which I have responsibility to implement. Due to institutional priorities and other responsibilities, I have yet to set up functionality for tracking tutoring sessions and do not have the last few years of data in the new system. We have been keeping pen/paper records, so the data available for this survey is not as nuanced as I would like.
A FT-TT faculty member in rhetoric and composition has taken over the position and is starting monthly writing workshops for faculty and students that did not exist before. More faculty have become interested in getting their students into the Center. We have subscribed to mywconline.com making it easier to collect data and improve our services. Currently, I am encouraging my consultants to come up with a topic to present at a regional WC conference, something they have not done before.
A full-time Assistant Director is needed along with full time administrative assistants. At the moment, all are part-time positions.
A full-time ELL specialist (staff) which will support diversely prepared learners.
A major Gen Ed revision has led to new curricular changes including the addition of multimodal, multimedia, and oral projects within the Writing Program.The Writing Center will need to adapt to working with students on these kinds of projects. Additional Writing Intensive requirements have been added for undergrads, so a WID position has been created, and this person will be expanding writing tutoring into the disciplines.
A new general education curriculum is under development that may add emphasis on oral and multi-modal communication which has spurred the idea of a speaking center being added to the existing writing and learning center combo. This curricular revision may also call on us to teach some of the first year "science of learning" courses under development. Both may be in addition to current duties--we'll see.
A report to our General Education Committee about our first-year seminar shows broad dissatisfaction with the quality of student writing as well as the ability of faculty from across the curriculum to teach it in FYS. I anticipate the creation of a new model with some sort of new academic writing class in the first semester of the first year. We are also moving slowly toward a Learning Commons model that will bring together all our centers--Speech, Academic Skills, Writing, Tech Learning Center--on one floor in the library.
Addition of a faculty advisory committee
Addition of assistant director positions
Administrative and staff vacancies have gone unfulfilled. When a f-t secretary for the Writing Center retired, she was never replaced; we had to use WC undergraduate consultants to take on some of her responsibilities. This semester a Coordinator for the WC retired; she will not be replaced. The Director & Assoc Director will take over her responsibilities. Finally, one of our 2 Assoc Directors has recently left the University; that position will likely not be replaced.
Again, there will be some changes for sure: a new director, a new space for the writing lab, new recommendations from external reviewers to consider.
better cooperation and integration in the first year experience efforts
An English department faculty member will be providing additional training to English tutors
As a center we are trying to take the pulse of our campus and student needs (in terms of utilization) from there we will amend our program offerings (online, appointment types, workshops).
As administrator plans to retire in the next couple of years, the new administrator will probably make changes and the library is always configuring new ways to use space which could affect the Writing Center @ the Library.
As of March 2018, the Writing Studio was moved organizationally from University College--an academic unit for exploratory/undeclared undergraduate majors--to Academic Support and Mentoring, which was recently moved from Student Services to Academic Affairs (i.e., the Provost's Office). While it seems the majority of reorganization resulting from recent program reviews and budget reviews has happened, additional changes do not seem out of the realm of possibility. Our general education curriculum is being revised, which will impact our composition program; we have a new chancellor; and a new budget model is being implemented.
As the designated tutoring and graduate programs continue to grow, I feel that more resources (financial, manpower, etc.) will need to be invested into both. Also, if the number of online and hybrid course continue to increase, then additional distance tutoring (beyond just telephone tutoring) may be needed. I have also taken the first steps to increasing the responsibilities of the tutors in the assistant to the directors position to make the position more like an internship. I feel that the role of the Associate Director (the only faculty administrator whose sole focus is the Writing Lab) may need to be expanded in order to accommodate for these changes.
As the top-level administration here is in transition to a new president and provost, we expect changes of some kind.
As we have been merged into a different department this year, there are bound to be some changes in operation.
Because the Writing Center's involvement in securing grant funding to create two community writing centers, along with a writing program in the regional prison, we have created a "Center for Community Writing," currently housed in the Writing Center. This new program, which focuses on providing student undergraduate tutors experience in tutoring in the larger community, will likely become it's own independent program in the next three years.
Being a college with an ever-increasing multilingual population, it will be absolutely necessary to have a multilingual specialist. Assistant director will be retiring in the next four years. Also, the vision of the Writing Center is to rotate the director in and out of the Writing Program (housed in the English department) or out of our WAC/WIC program. The Writing Center, moving ahead, has to be a generative/collaborative project that anyone can step into. I am making sure to lay that groundwork.
I have been at this institution for just over a year. Most of the policies and procedures were handed down from the previous director.
I hope to refill the full-time Asst. Coordinator staff position again. I may also retire or go to part time, if possible.
Possibly, depending on outcome of the curriculum review; outcome of a search for LIS director
My college is undergoing curricular change which is likely to impact whether we are able to continue offering a training course. These changes could conceivably impact administrative support, though that is not predictable. One likely change will be that our staff will go from being faculty and undergraduates to undergraduates only.
It is possible that we will lose the tuition remission credits that graduate students currently receive. Those credits have been reduced this academic year, and the stipend was eliminated.
IT is possible the directorship will change hands
It will depend on revisions to the general curriculum, which may change the way the writing center operates with the general curriculum, both in terms of programming and staffing.
It's possible that our reporting line will change.
Long standing directors/faculty are retiring or have retired and that will bring changes
More like "possibly." Some of our graduate writing consultants are in the English MA program, a program that may be undergoing some changes (possibly even elimination) within the next few years. The outlook is really not clear at all at this point, but the budget cuts the school is facing will no doubt impact our graduate consultants and probably our faculty ones as well.
more online support will be offered and consultants will be trained for that
More targeted curriculum changes.
My position was not added specifically to expand the writing center, but that has been a significant portion of my work in the larger Tutor Center at the university. I plan to collaborate with the librarians to train the peer tutors in APA and MLA changes and offer citation workshops for the 2018 - 2019 academic year. I would also like to collaborate more closely with the English department and the emerging FYE program to provide writing support to new students, especially those with remedial needs. My department is working to add in-house professional tutors to serve our growing division of online and graduate students. My responses in this survey are based on what information I could find about the 2016 - 2017 academic year. I did not come on board until October 2017, and have made changes in the way data is collected and analyzed for both the writing center and the larger Tutor Center.
In the last five years, the writing center was eliminated as a distinct unit and has only recently been reinstated. As of yet, it does not have permanent funding.
New on-line training for tutors & possible new tutoring course offered
Online tutoring will be provided starting in this semester (fully synchronous, conducted over skype) A Writing Enhanced Courses program, chaired by the WC director and operating out of the university's curriculum committee) has just begun, with full curricular changes expected by AY 2020-2021 Center is moving toward an "integrated workshop" model, providing services to specific courses and instructors
Our peer tutoring program is the newest piece of the writing center. We started this year with just six tutors, but that's expected to grow.
Our reporting structure is changing. Currently, we report to the Associate Provost of Academic Services, but that position is being split into two Assistant Dean positions. Beginning next year, we will report to an Assistant Dean for First Year Experience and Student Success.
Our state system is throwing support behind Tutor.com. I can see this supplanting some of what we already do on campus. I can also see administration looking at combining the oversight of the Writing Center in with other student oversight responsibilities in an effort to cut costs. I work to make sure administration is aware of the more specialized training and professional development that is provided and needed by writing center peer tutors currently. We are adding an English for Multilingual Speakers program, and the Writing Center might become more involved in supporting those students beyond the writing-focused work done currently.
Our university is having budgetary constraints because of dropping enrollment, so I anticipate there will be changes, but I do not necessarily know what they will be.
Our university is on the tail end of a writing QEP, and the office of this QEP has significantly bolstered our funding while in place. I'm not sure exactly what is going to happen once the QEP ends
Possibly may add course-embedded writing tutors
Possibly moving the Writing Center from the English Department to the Provost's office as a student support unit.
It is possible that we may merge into a Learning Commons in a new building near the Library.
In March 2017, the University Writing Services cut a full-time Director of Writing Services position. While the services are currently organized through Student Affairs, the cut has provided opportunity for discussions on where it is best for the center to be organizationally housed. There is no clear organizational house within Academic Affairs unless if the center is housed within the English Department. The English Department has brought forward this as a point of ongoing discussion (with the primary concern being amount of administrative overhead currently involved in running the writing center operation). Simultaneous to this discussion, the University is in the process of developing a core curriculum, which might also dictate future structure of the center.
I plan to add a half credit-bearing course as part of peer writing tutor training and possibly reintroduce course-embedded peer writing fellows. Also want to initiate several events, such as write-ins and creative writing drop-in group.
I will be retiring July of 2019. She will probably take the tutors to a conference. I have saved our funds for her because I have been writing books while both teaching and directing the Writing Center.
I plan to separate the Center from general tutoring.
I see the satellite location in the library growing to include more consultants.
I should get a half-time administrative asst.
I think a director position will be added again and an additional coordinator position will be created. Additionally, I see the writing center playing a vital role in co-requisite courses.
I think the powers-that-be would like to remove a course-release for this position, giving the director a one-course release per academic year (right now I get a two-course release).
I think the tutoring services across the board will work more collaboratively for training and procedures and perhaps locations.
I want the Writing Center to hire a full-time specialist director. I do it as 1/4 of a 9-month contract, even though there is work for 12 months.
I was brought to campus to serve as the staff director of the WC and the all-subject tutoring program in the summer of 2013. I've been here for 5 years. This fall, I am leaving to pursue a Ph.D. so the parent department, the Academic Resource Center, is exploring replacement options. There will either be one full-time administrator of the WC and all-subject tutoring center, or there may be two coordinators--one to run the WC and the other to run the rest of tutoring. In terms of curricular changes, new staff will bring in new ideas but I cannot speak to what those changes may include. To some extent, that change will be limited by the tutor training program's CRLA certification; to maintain certification the training will have to be CRLA compliant. Our campus is also exploring development of a new Student Center on campus, which may result in the Writing Center being physically relocated to join the Academic Resource Center.
I will be retiring in 2021; we will need to hire an additional assistant director before that time and conduct a national search for my position.
I will be retiring, and I expect restructuring of my position.
In July 1, 2018, the first permanent writing program director will begin in this position. That will continue to strengthen and possibly expand our writing center.
I will retire and don't know who/what will replace me.
I would like to continue to expand our services, which will require more tutors and more money. I plan to advocate for more work-study positions and propose a Writing Fellows program.
I would like to continue to expand services, coordinating with our WPA to offer more support to faculty across campus. I also want to do more outreach. I also want to completely revamp the undergraduate tutor practicum course to include more research-focused scholarship in addition to practice-focused scholarship.
I would like to develop a more robust online tutoring program involving synchronous tutoring support.
I'd like to add Lead Tutor positions to help oversee administration and support, and I am interested in creating a new position for a Writing Fellows Coordinator
I'm concerned about the intersection of restricted budget and increasing minimum wage in my state.
I'm hoping to add an Assistant Director at the lecturer level.
Ideally, the hiring of an Assistant Director of the writing center, increased funding for student staff, and increased funding for the Writing Fellows program.
In 2018-19, I'll have a graduate student tutor for the first time. I hope to create an ongoing graduate fellow position that serves as a de facto assistant director.
Yes. We have received more funding through our Strategic Planning initiative and will be adding an additional 12 hours to our schedule. As a solo WPA, I'm also advocating for a new Rhet/Comp tenure line to help with administrative responsibilities.

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