Job Opportunities (2 positions): English Instructors specializing in Canadian and Indigenous Literatures, Cross-Disciplinary Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Pedagogy, or Postcolonial Literature, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Deadline: February 1, 2017
Full details here.
The Canadian Writing Centre Association is very pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals for our 2017 conference in Toronto, Ontario is now open.
Where: OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario
When: May 25-26, 2017
Keynote: Dr. Frankie Condon, University of Waterloo
In her IWCA award-winning book, Rhetoric of Respect (2016), Tiffany Rousculp makes a call for developing a “rhetoric of respect” within writing centres that “entails recognition of multiple views, approaches, abilities, and . . . limitations” (25). In a community address in 2014, Frankie Condon similarly argues that “we will need to understand and act on the understanding that our most important stakeholders are the students we serve and the communities from which they come. . . We will need to work with our students and their home communities to learn their needs (instead of assuming we know them already or are better qualified to determine what those needs are or should be).” Both writers make the call for writing centres and institutions to have respect for “the individual’s position and experience” (Rousculp 28) in a way that does not assume that the writing centre “knows better” than the writers who enter our doors.
As we look to the future of writing centres in Canada, we must consider how we make space for the multiple stories that writers have to tell—not with the goal of helping them erase differences or assimilate, but with the goal of respecting and valuing the multiple cultures, languages, writing practices, lived experiences, and educational histories that they carry with them.
The Canadian Writing Centres Association invites writing centre practitioners—from far and wide—to consider how we respect individual differences amid pressures to serve ever greater numbers of students on limited budgets and in sometimes challenging administrative contexts. How do we continue to diversify our programs, our tutor training, and our research? And how do we extend our rhetorics of respect outside of our centres, across our institutions, and into our larger communities?
The full call for proposals is available on the CWCA website.
Proposals must be submitted through our online submission form. Email submissions will not be accepted this year.
Any individual presenter may be included on up to two (2) proposals, but at least one of the proposals must be for a group presentation (3-5 presenters).
Questions about conference proposals can be directed to CWCA Vice-Chair, Nancy Johnson Squair: squairn@douglascollege.ca
Presenters will be notified by email concerning the status of their proposal(s) by February 10, 2017.
The 2017 IWCA Summer Institute will be held in Vancouver, Canada, from Monday, June 19 through Thursday, June 22 (with an opening reception the evening of Sunday, June 18).
The Summer Institute (SI) is an opportunity for both new and experienced writing center administrators, scholars, and practitioners to develop their practice. Focusing on the theme “The Relevant Writing Center: Advocacy through Inquiry,” SI 2017 workshops will cultivate informed, sustainable, and effective writing centers by focusing on tutor training, budget and logistics, diversity and inclusion, institutional advocacy, and qualitative and quantitative assessment and research. This year’s leaders include Vershawn Young (Waterloo University), Lucie Moussu (University of Alberta), and guest presenter Harry Denny (Purdue University) as well as SI co-chairs Christopher LeCluyse (Westminster College, UT) and Stacia Watkins (Lipscomb University) and IWCA President Shareen Grogan ( National University).
More information is included below. Participants must be IWCA members and can register through the IWCA members website. Please let SI co-chairs Chris LeCluyse or Stacia Watkins know if you have any questions.
An established tradition within the International Writing Center Association since 2003, the Summer Institute (SI) is meant to guide current or would-be writing center directors and assistants, writing program administrators, tutors, writing teachers (high school or college), curriculum developers, graduate students, new PhDs, and academic leaders. SI leaders offer presentations, workshops, and discussions on a variety of writing center topics. Leaders also work one-on-one with participants throughout the week.
The fifteenth annual IWCA Summer Institute will be held June 19-22, 2017, in Vancouver, Canada, at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel. This year?s SI focuses on how writing centers can demonstrate their relevance both inside and outside institutions by cultivating evidence-based practices. Basing our work in sustained research?whether it takes the form of assessment or scholarly inquiry?helps us not only teach writing effectively but also empower writing tutors and student writers to engage in a complex, often conflictual, world. Grounding our work in inquiry can also reveal the important, idea-driven work writing centers engage in daily, enhancing their role and value within academic communities. SI 2017 workshops will cultivate informed, sustainable, and effective writing centers by focusing on tutor training, budget and logistics, diversity and inclusion, institutional advocacy, and qualitative and quantitative assessment and research.
Christopher LeCluyse, Westminster College (Utah), Co-Chair Stacia Watkins, Lipscomb University, Co-Chair Shareen Grogran, National University; President, International Writing Center Association Lucie Moussu, University of Alberta Vershawn Young, University of Waterloo Harry Denny, Purdue University, Guest Presenter
Participants can register online. Registration will be open until March 25, 2017. After the first 50 applications are received, a wait list will be started.
The SI registration fee of $900 includes participation in all workshops and presentations, receptions on Sunday, June 18, and Thursday, June 22, daily breakfast, and outside events. A limited number of travel and lodging grants are available. Please contact SI co-chair Chris LeCluyse if you would like to be considered for a travel or lodging grant.
The IWCA Summer Institute 2017 will take place in Vancouver, Canada, at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel. Room reservations can be made directly with the hotel (phone 604-331-1000); a special conference rate of $205/night Canadian (about $150/night U.S.) has been secured for the SI. This beautiful, cosmopolitan city boasts many natural and cultural attractions. Special excursions during the SI will give participants the opportunity to connect with this remarkable and diverse city.
Emily Carr University of Art + Design invites applications for a new full-time faculty position of Multilingual Learning Specialist. The successful candidate will develop and maintain support programs for students, staff and faculty in the area of supporting multilingual students. This position will work in collaboration with both the Writing Centre and the Teaching and Learning Centre.
Reporting to the Dean of Culture and Community, this position will directly support multilingual students at the undergraduate and graduate level as well as build staff and faculty awareness and expertise in pedagogical practices for multilingual students.
While the primary emphasis of our current support is in the area of writing, support for reading, listening and speaking will be necessary sites of future development.
The Emily Carr Writing Centre is a key resource in coordinating co-curricular instruction and support for our many multilingual students. The Writing Centre works closely with faculty instructors, student teaching assistants, student services staff, administration, and individual undergraduate and graduate students to maintain a network of support and advancement in areas of writing and language development.
The full posting can be found here.
The IWCA Collaborative at CCCC 2017 will be accepting proposals for sessions through Friday, December 16. We invite you to join your Writing Center colleagues from around the country for a day of active collaboration at Portland State University on March 15, 9am-6pm.
We are calling this year’s Collaborative “The Change Lab: Collaborating, Cooperating, Coordinating.” Why do writing center scholars go to professional conferences? To share the findings of our scholarly work, sure. But, many of us also go for the chance to engage with our peers from other institutions—to learn together, to problem solve, and to plan for the future in ways we cannot do alone. The IWCA Collaborative at CCCC offers the writing center community an opportunity to spend a full day of working together—not to share what we’ve already done, but to help each other with what still needs doing. It is our goal that if you participate in the 2017 Collaborative as a presenter or attendees you will finish the day with concrete “Monday morning moves”—plans you can immediately translate into action.
Read our full call for proposals here. To propose a session and/or to register for the conference, go to the IWCA Members page. We hope to collaborate with you! If you have questions about the conference, your proposal, or registration, we’re happy to talk with you: Jennifer Follett (jfollett@ycp.edu) or Lauri Dietz (ldietz@depaul.edu).
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