To be announced soon!

The International Writing Centers Association is proud to announce the recipient of the Best Article Award for 2011:Rebecca Babcock (University of Texas Permain Basin), “Interpreted Writing Center Tutorials with College-Level Deaf Students” (Linguistics and Education 22 [2011]: 95-117). The article was nominated by Therese Thonus. The IWCA’s Best Article Committee was chaired by Jackie Grutsch [...]

For the fourth year, the University of Oklahoma is offering 5 spots for non-University of Oklahoma doctoral students to attend Camp Completion.   The spots fill fast, so register soon: http://www.ou.edu/content/writingcenter/CampCompletion.html Camp Completion works best if you are a doctoral student past  (passed! :) the proposal stage in your writing. Camp Completion – May 21-23, 2012 [...]

It’s Time to Make Your Plans to Attend the IWCA Writing Center Summer Institute Imagine five days of stimulating discussions with writing center colleagues from the U.S. and abroad, changing hearts and minds about matters of teaching and learning, sharing insights and practices about technology and assessment, and discovering new approaches to help your tutors [...]

By January 18, please nominate articles for the 2011 IWCA Outstanding Article Award. The award will be given at the IWCA Collaborative @ Cs in St Louis, on March 21, 2012. Please note the policies, criteria, and nominating process below. The following policies should be noted: *Nominated publications must be dated within the calendar year [...]

Director of the Writing and Media Help Center As part of a newly funded campus writing center, Iowa State University is seeking a Director of the Writing and Media Help Center (WMHC). The Director is responsible for the development and management of a comprehensive university-wide writing center. Duties include outreach to faculty related to writing [...]

From the NCTE website (http://www.ncte.org/college/awards/russell) “2011 Recipient - Neal Lerner The National Council of Teachers of English is pleased to announce Neal Lerner’s The Idea of a Writing Laboratory as the 2011 recipient of the David H. Russell Award.  The Idea of a Writing Laboratory provides a much needed historical examination of the intellectual foundations of [...]

Congratulations to the recently-elected IWCA Executive Officers. Beginning in November 2011, they will join Nathalie Singh-Corcoran (currently vice-president, to become president) and Roberta Kjesrud (currently president, to become past president) in comprising the 2011-13 executive leadership team. Here are our newly-elected leaders: Vice President: Kevin Dvorak (St. Thomas University) Secretary: Kerri Jordan (Mississippi College) Treasurer: Neal [...]

The University of Mississippi announces 3 newly created positions that have a focus on writing center work. The University’s 2009 Quality Enhancement Plan has placed writing at the center of the campus’s energies by creating the Center for Writing and Rhetoric, which consolidates efforts to improve writing instruction at all levels. The University is hiring [...]

The Department of English and Communications at Tennessee Tech University (Cookeville, TN) is seeking applicants for Visiting Instructor / Visiting Assistant Professor positions. One or more positions available. Full-time, nine-month, non-tenure-track appointment to begin August 2011. This one-year contract may be renewed for up to three years,depending on department need and funding. QUALIFICATIONS: MA or [...]

Camp Completion! Get your dissertation going! The University of Oklahoma Writing Center is offering their third year of Camp Completion. They welcome dissertators from all over the world for this three day intensive camp. Registration is now open but limited to 24 graduate students. What? Camp Completion is a dissertation and thesis writing workshop sponsored [...]

We are seeking candidates for three open positions: Vice President Secretary Treasurer About the positions: Secretary and Treasurer are two year terms. The VP is a six year commitment (VP from 2011-13, President, 2013-15, Past President, 2015-17). All terms start at NCTE in fall of 2011. Duties of each office are described on the IWCA [...]

The Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA) Executive Board is now accepting nominations for board member positions. 4 positions are open this year: 1.     At-Large Member 2.     Two-year College Representative 3.     High School Representative 4.     Outreach Coordinator All nominees must be SWCA members and be willing to serve as described below.  Please note that the Two-year [...]

All IWCA members and friends are invited to join the Executive Board for an online open meeting during which you may meet the Board, hear more about current initiatives, and voice your questions or concerns. Traditionally, December is a month of transition, the first meeting of Board members newly seated at NCTE.  In previous years, [...]

Rebecca Babcock will be teaching an online graduate course this summer on writing center history, theory, administration and practice, which will be through University of Texas-Permian Basin. Those who wish to take the course who are not UTPB students can apply as a special student w/ transcripts and no GRE required unless they matriculate. UTPB [...]

The Southeastern Writing Center Association is pleased to announce that we are accepting nominations for the following annual awards. Awards will be presented at the 2011 SWCA conference to be held at the University of Alabama, February 17-19. Please visit our conference site: http://www.iwca-swca.org/Conferences.html for more information. We hope to see you there! ************************** SWCA [...]

Centering Assessment: Roles, Relationships, Respect, Resistance Date March 3-5, 2011 Location Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Conference Chair TBA Proposal Deadline December 13, 2010; Acceptance Notification by Jan 10, 2011 Keynote Speaker TBA Full Call for Proposals Assessment has always functioned at the heart of writing center consultations in university, community college, secondary, elementary, and [...]

The International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) serves to strengthen the writing center community through all of its activities. The IWCA offers its Research Grant to encourage scholars to apply and advance exiting theories and methods or create new knowledge. This grant supports quantitative, qualitative, theoretical, and applied projects associated with writing center research and application. [...]

The Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is delighted to share three new podcasts from our research and professional series, featuring Neal Lerner (director of Training in Communication Instruction for the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT)– 1.  Lerner’s Writing Center Origins 2.  ”If You Want to Understand Educational Reforms, You Have [...]

The International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) serves to strengthen the writing center community through all of its activities. The IWCA offers its Research Grant to encourage scholars to apply and advance exiting theories and methods or create new knowledge. This grant supports quantitative, qualitative, theoretical, and applied projects associated with writing center research and application. [...]