At this year’s NCPTW conference, IWCA Vice-President Michele Eodice was the recipient of the 2006 Ron Maxwell Award for Distinguised Leadership in Promoting the Collaborative Learning Practices of Peer Tutors in Writing.

The Ron Maxwell Leadership Award is given to a professional in the organization who has contributed with distinction to undergraduate student development through promoting collaborative learning among peer tutors in writing.

A small awards committee consisting of several recent hosts of the Conference, Jon Olson and Ron Maxwell, solicits nominations, reviews the candidates, and chooses an annual recipient. The Penn State Center for Excellence in Writing, directed by Jon Olson, serves as administrator of the award. Annual expenses of the award–a plaque and a modest cash prize for the recipient–are covered by Ron and Mary Maxwell through the endowment.

Past recipients include Kathleen Shine Cain and Michael Rossi (2005), Harvey Kail (2004), Jean Donovan Sanborn (2003), Ben Rafoth (2002), Kevin Davis (2001), Jean Kiedaisch (2000), Molly Wingate (1999, the inaugural Maxwell Award).