The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) seeks applications for a full-time shared appointment in the English Department and the Learning Resources Center (LRC), teaching 3 courses per year for English and bringing innovative, dynamic leadership to the operations of the LRC Writing Center, located the Albin O. Kuhn Library, as well as other duties [...]

Writing Center Coordinator To Apply: jobs.tmcc.edu Salary: Starting at $46,510. Salary is dependent upon education and experience. Position Description: The writing center is part of the Tutoring and Learning Center, a dynamic part of the college, and is exceptionally responsive to a diverse student population. The major function of the writing center is to coordinate [...]

Four non-tenure-track visiting instructor positions in composition are available in the Department of English at Tennessee Technological University. These full-time positions are renewable annually for up to three years. Teaching responsibility is four sections of first-year composition each semester. Minimum qualifications: MA in English with graduate coursework in composition pedagogy, experience teaching college-level composition, experience [...]

Position #941540 The University Writing Program (UWP) (http://www.ecu.edu/writing) at East Carolina University seeks to fill the position of Assistant Director of the University Writing Center (UWC), to begin July 1, 2013.  This is a full time, non-teaching position with benefits.Master’s Degree Required. The UWC seeks a candidate with experience in writing center work, preferably writing [...]

Towson University, one of Maryland’s largest public universities, is accepting applications for an Assistant Director of the Writing Center. This position is a twelve month staff position which reports to the Writing Center Director. The TU Writing Center is housed in the new Liberal Arts Building and is supervised by the Dean of the College [...]

DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY WRITING AND RHETORIC CENTER – (Administrator I ), College of Liberal Arts, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Director of the University Writing and Rhetoric Center (UWRC) provides vision and leadership in developing and sustaining the mission of the center and providing and assessing its various programs and services: a [...]

Featured on National Writing Project Radio on February 28: “Join us this week as we talk to Writing Project site leaders, teachers, administrators, and students about student-run writing centers as centers of leadership development for administrators, teachers, and students. Learn how the Northern Virginia Writing Project is taking up support of writing centers as part [...]

To apply for this job, visit the website: http://fitnyc.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp;jsessionid=065B78A06EB726B2F5533BE2795D2307?JOBID=35623 Job Description: The successful candidate will be capable of motivating and educating a staff made up of peer and professional tutors, will engage faculty in pedagogical discussions about writing, and will have experience working with a diverse population of students. The Associate Director’s duties will include [...]

IWCA Rapid Research surveys are one-question surveys that ask for information that writing center directors commonly request from other writing center directors. IWCA Rapid Research surveys are voluntary and are not IRB approved. However, the results may be used for administrative reports, research, and other documents because no identifiable information can be linked with individuals [...]

View the full official job ad at http://employment.ku.edu/jobs/2283 . Assistant Director, KU Writing Center University of Kansas Unclassified Professional Staff position Full-time, $43,000-$45,000 annually commensurate with experience The KU Writing Center offers programs and services to students, faculty and staff across writing levels and disciplines. The Assistant Director has primary responsibility for the coordination and [...]

Director of Academic Support for Writing and Speaking Grinnell College (Full Time, 12 months) Grinnell College is seeking a talented, experienced and versatile educator to serve as the Director of Academic Support for Writing and Speaking in a full-time, 12-month continuing position. This individual will direct the Writing Laboratory, and work collaboratively with other campus [...]

Are you a tutor/consultant presenting at the East Central Writing Centers Association Conference at Clarion University in Clarion, PA, April 12-13? If no tutors from your institution have presented at the conference in the last three years, you can apply for one of ten travel grants to help defray conference costs. Send the following information [...]

Position Announcement: Assistant Director, Washington College Writing Center (Ten month staff position, beginning in August) Washington College, a selective liberal arts institution in Chestertown, Maryland, invites applications for the position of Assistant Director of its Writing Center. The Washington College Writing Center has a 30-year history of supporting the college’s writing program and providing individualized [...]

Temple University will be hiring a new half-time administrator in the Temple University Writing Center to work on organizing programs and services for international/ESL students. The new “program specialist” will work with us to develop our conversation partners program, and to imagine and create other programs, activities, and workshops aimed at promoting students’ language development. [...]

All writing center administrators (directors, assistant directors, managers, technology coordinators, etc) who have been writing center administrators for less than 3 years are invited to participate in a brief survey on the models of staff management used by writing center administrators and the preparation they received in the area of staff management. Your assistance in [...]

Academic Exchange Quarterly, Winter 2013, Volume 17, Issue 4 http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/12lead.htm Feature Editors: Shanti Bruce, Associate Professor, Nova Southeastern University, FL Kevin Dvorak, Associate Professor, Nova Southeastern University, FL Claire Lutkewitte, Assistant Professor, Nova Southeastern University, FL Focus: This issue will examine effective leadership practices in college and university writing programs, including first-year composition, basic writing, [...]

Attending CCCC in Las Vegas this week? Download a list of writing-centered sessions. New to the conference experience? Read Jasmine Kar Tang’s and Katie Levin’s guide below (originally published in the MWCA newsletter). Getting the Most from Your Conference Experience, compiled by Jasmine Kar Tang and Katie Levin Attending your first academic conference can be [...]

Soka University of America (www.soka.edu) is searching for a colleague to serve as Director/Coordinator of our Writing Center and to teach composition and general education courses. The position is a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Composition and Rhetoric to begin in Fall 2013. A selective liberal arts university founded upon the principles of peace and [...]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: ECWCA OUTSTANDING TUTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD ECWCA TUTOR LEADERSHIP AWARD Deadline:  March 18, 2013 Each year the East Central Writing Center Association (ECWCA) acknowledges the outstanding service provided by tutor/consultants throughout the region. Designed to celebrate the contributions of undergraduate-student, graduate-student, and staff writing center tutors, these awards serve not only [...]

The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) is pleased to announce the Fifth Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia to be held on April 20, 2013. Background: In February 2009, the University of Tokyo held the first Symposium on Writing Centers in Japan. Since then, the writing centers symposium has become an annual event, [...]