The Southeastern Writing Center Association offers two competitive grants to individuals within the southeast region attending the annual IWCA Collaborative@CCCC. Winners will receive a cash award of $105 to defray the cost of registration for the Collaborative and be recognized on the SWCA website. Following the Collaborative, recipients will be asked to compose a brief [...]

Dear ECWCA Members: We have five excellent ways for you to be involved in ECWCA.  As you wait for our newsletter to be released later this week, read through this email and follow the links to see the amazing ways you can enhance your ECWCA experience. Below are the descriptions for each opportunity.  You will [...]

The Writing Program Administrators Graduate Student Organization (WPA-GO) and the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) are pleased to announce seven travel grants for current graduate students presenting at the 2012 Conference on College Composition and Communication, to be held March 21-24 in St. Louis, MO. Presentations must be related to writing program administration (e.g., [...]

March 21, 2012 – Crowne Plaza Hotel, St. Louis, MO Register for the Collaborative here. Download the preliminary program here. Writing Center Activism: From Ideals to Strategies In Facing the Center (Utah State UP, 2010), Harry Denny explores the ways in which identity politics impact writing center work. He observes that identifying such politics within [...]

Registration for the IWCA Collaborative @ CCCC Writing Center Activism: From Ideals to Strategies Wednesday, March 21, 2012 The Crowne Plaza Hotel 200 N. Fourth Street St. Louis, MO 63102 New! Register for the conference here. Registration FAQs What is the IWCA Collaborative @ CCCC? The Collaborative @ CCCC is an independent, annual IWCA event [...]

View the FAQ for registration here. To register for the 2012 Collaborative@CCCC, complete both Step 1 and Step 2 below. Step 1 provides the conference organizers with your registration information (name, institution, etc.). Step 2 allows you to pay by credit card (Visa or Mastercard only). Be sure to complete Step 1 and click the [...]

February 6-10, 2012 Important Links: Find the conference program and links to join the sessions here. Find directions on how to join sessions using Collaborate here. Overview: Two-year college writing centers are distinct for many reasons: institutional missions, student bodies, administrative expectations, faculty involvement, and funding priorities. This live, interactive, on-line conference will amplify our [...]

Dear colleagues We are happy to invite you to the eduhub webinar: “Writing Centers to enhance Learning and Instruction in Swiss Teacher Education”, presented by Gisela Bürki (PH Bern) and Gerd Bräuer (ZHAW/PH Freiburg, Germany) on Thursday, June 30, from 11 AM – 12 NOON Central European Summer Time (CEST). PLEASE ALSO SIGN UP IF [...]

The 2011 Summer Institute for writing center professionals will take place in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma July 24-29. For complete details, see the IWCA SI website at http://writingcenters.org/links/iwca-summer-institute-2/ . To go directly to the registration page at http://ltw.ou.edu/si2011/ .

This year, to celebrate its 100th anniversary, NCTE is embracing the theme “Reading the Past, Writing the Future.” IWCA would like to take this opportunity to gather its members for a one-day workshop, hosted by COWLLC, on November 17, 2011, where we will consider “Revising the Present.” To inspire participants in re-visionary thinking, we will [...]

MCC-Longview will host a Writing Across the Curriculum Institute for Community Colleges, June 22-24, 2011, on the Longview campus in Lee’s Summit, a suburb in the Kansas City metro area. The institute offers a focused and interactive opportunity for WAC directors, discipline faculty, and college administrators to learn practical strategies for starting and sustaining a [...]

Florida International University – Biscayne Bay Kovens Conference Center November 4-6, 2011 Proposal Deadline: April 25, 2011 Conference Website: http://ncptw.net/2011-conference.html Keynote Speaker: Brian Fallon, Fashion Institute of Technology, 2010 Maxwell Award Winner Theme: Tutors, Tutoring, and the Teaching of Tutors The 2011 NCPTW convention invites writing center tutors and directors to come to Miami, FL, [...]

Thanks to Deb Bertsch for compiling a list of some of the writing-centered presentations at this week’s CCCC.

Preliminary Schedule Now Available! See below. Registration Visit http://ltw.ou.edu/cccc11/ to register for the Collaborative. Location and Date/Time April 6, 2011 – Omni/CNN Center, Atlanta, GA Overview The all-day IWCA Collaborative @ CCCC is an independent, annual IWCA event and will not appear on the CCCC program. The Collaborative @ CCCC focuses on providing an interactive, [...]

You are invited to attend the second gathering of the IWCA Regional Leaders Network, Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at the IWCA Collaborative@CCCCs in Atlanta. We hope leaders from each writing center region will join together at this important event to share ideas for creating localized professional development opportunities and for fostering growth among regional writing [...]

The East Central Writing Centers Association invites inquiries and applications to host its spring 2012 conference. Any college or university within the ECWCA region (Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and nearby areas) is eligible to host. The ECWCA Board also gladly accepts applications from multiple institutions that wish to co-host the conference. Hosting [...]

Chicagoland Organization of Writing, Literacy, and Learning Centers (COWLLC) The Chicagoland Organization of Writing, Literacy, and Learning Centers (COWLLC) is proud to announce its 2011 Tutor Conference! Conference Overview NOTE: We are extending our deadline for proposals for the March 4th Tutor Conference! Please have proposals submitted by January 10, 2011. We hope that will [...]

The Chicagoland Organization of Writing, Literacy, and Learning Centers (COWLLC) is proud to announce its 2011 Tutor Conference! Conference Overview NOTE: We are extending our deadline for proposals for the March 4th Tutor Conference! Please have proposals submitted by January 10, 2011. We hope that will give you enough time to work with your tutors. [...]

Search closed. The University of New Hampshire at Manchester is seeking candidates for the position of Director of the Center for Academic Enrichment (CAE), a comprehensive learning center providing reading, writing, mathematics, study skills, tutoring, and academic support programming. (View information about the CAE at: http://unhm.unh.edu/current-students/academic-support-services/center-for-academic-enrichment/index.php ) The Center for Academic Enrichment is affiliated with [...]

International Writing Centers Association joined conference with National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing The full program is ready to download here (file size: 10 megabytes). November 4-6, 2010 Baltimore, Maryland At the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel Welcome to IWCA-NCPTW 2010 The International Writing Centers Association and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in [...]