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Writing Centre in a Learning Commons in an academic library

Writing Fellows

Coordinator for Reading and Composition in the Department of Rhetoric

We don't have a WPA. There is a team that directs the Writing/Communication Center. I am putting together the Writing Intensive program, but it is not part of my title.

Writing to Learn

As the only full-time writing instructor at my school, I am the ad hoc WPA and WIC specialist at my university, but do not carry the title officially.

Writing Consultant

Faculty Consultant

Writing Services Coordinator

Professional Tutors

We have an Art of Writing Fellowship for graduate student instructors

Our WAC program has not gained enough traction for the term "WAC Fellow" to be known outside of the group.

We do have a WAC seminar (5 sessions) that participating instructors can apply for a credential through the University Institute for Teaching and Learning, called an "endorsement." At this point, apart from trying to keep in touch with participants and building a continued community, we don't have a separate formal designation for them.

Writing Instructors

We do have a WAC seminar (5 sessions) that participating instructors can apply for a credential through the University Institute for Teaching and Learning, called an "endorsement." At this point, apart from trying to keep in touch with participants and building a continued community, we don't have a separate formal designation for them.

Writing Instructors

I guess I find this question a bit confusing. Some of our instructors work in administrator positions in our WAC program and are called WAC fellows. But it's not all of the instructors in our program.

Writing Center Coordinators

We have "WID Consultants" and "WAC Consultants."

We have PALs: Peer-Assisted Learners

Writing to learn instructors (mainly what I call all faculty who are trained to teach WL courses)

Writing Associates

Writing and Learning Peers

Embedded Mentors

Consultants

Writing Associates or "WA"

Peer-tutors

We have undergraduate research fellows whom we call WRITE Fellows. On a semester to semester basis, they participate in our Writing Research-Integrated Tutor Enrichment Fellows Program.

To clarify, we have writing tutors who offer support through our Writing and Learning Center, and sometimes that support is connected to a specific course, but the tutor does not attend the course. Additionally, we do have course embedded tutors, though we have not yet regularly incorporated them into writing courses; course embedded tutors attend courses and offer tutoring outside of class.

Disciplinary Writing Consultant

Undergraduate Learning Assistants, but these are not run through the WC but through college of natural science

Writing Advisors

Undergraduate Learning Assistants, but these are not run through the WC but through college or nat sci

We have PALs: Peer-Assisted Learners

We have undergraduate research fellows whom we call WRITE Fellows. On a semester to semester basis, they participate in our Writing Research-Integrated Tutor Enrichment Fellows Program.

Writing Advisors

Writing Associates or "WA"

Writing and Learning Peers

Writing Associates or WA. When they work with a course much like a writing fellow they are called Course WAs.

Teaching Assistant

Accelerated Peer Leaders (APLs)

Graduate Writing Facilitators

Assistant Instructors

Our graduate writing fellows work within our WAC program. It essentially functions as an appointment-only graduate writing center. Fellows receive monetary fellowships for the terms in which they are fellows.

Graduate Student Instructors

Dean's Completion Fellows

Writing Circle Instructors

We are a small, liberal arts college. We work with students of all majors

we call them faculties and departments (not colleges)

College of Letters and Sciences

AT MC, we call them Schools Business Liberal Arts Science & Engineering Education & Social Policy Health Science

So far, only first year students except for two pilots we ran with a select handful of "middle years" classes.

Medicine Public Policy Humanities

Note: Our "fellows" program is not within the writing program.

College of Health Sciences

We are a small liberal arts college that works with departments at our institution.

learning commons professional staff

Fellows are assigned specific undergraduate classes, and report both to my AD and to the faculty member of record.

Our Faculty Development center offers programs for full- and part-time instructors. We provide a one-credit class for undergraduate writing fellows.

Dean's Teaching Fellows are either assigned to the Writing Center where they tutor, train tutors, and do admin work. In the Writing Program, they do admin work and sometimes teach a little.

We have writing services coordinators and learning services coordinators (and an EAL services coordinator)

Director of Writing (oversees FYW, WAC (WI, WEC)) FYW Coordinator

First-year Writing Coordinator (very limited. This is our first year with such a position, and our department chose to hire someone fresh out of grad school, which I thought was a bad idea for the new hire. It's how I was hired, and it was unnecessarily difficult to get tenure/promotion.)

Our Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, overseen by a tenured faculty director, houses the WAC/WA program and the Writing Center, each of which normally has a full time professional staff coordinator (though in the wake of COVID-19, the college has a hiring freeze, and we don't have a Writing Center coordinator).

Writing Intensive Committee ENG 1050 Coordinator

First Year Seminar Director (we're a small liberal arts college)

Course Leads

Writing Intensive Committee ENG 1050 Coordinator

First Year Seminar Director (we're a small liberal arts college)

Our WAC program is co-chaired by two people. One who focuses on undergraduate work and the other who focuses on graduate work.

Embedded Tutor Coordinator (works under the WC director)

Our WAC/WID director is a "Writing Across the University" director

The Writing Center Director carries the responsibility of WAC/WID Director in the job description (but we don't use the title WAC/WID Director).

I serve pretty much as all of these; however, we have a 300-person student body, so it's not all awful. :)

Composition Director

Director of First-Year Writing, Coordinator of Community-Engaged Learning, Director of Technical Writing

Director of First-Year Writing, Coordinator of Community-Engaged Learning, Director of Technical Writing

There is a writing program director who is an unofficial WAC/WID director.

Freshman Comp Directors

Management of writing fellows is built into my position at a rate of less than 25%

Stipend to run an Institute on Teaching Writing. Writing Fellows are called such if they complete it.

I receive reassigned time for my administration of the entire writing center, including its writing fellows program.

Since 2006, I have been required to teach 2 courses a semester as part of my administrative job of directing an Academic Support Center, hiring and training tutors from across the disciplines. I was finally successful in being granted NO teaching load so I can concentrate on my 100 tutors (fall 2018). I chose to teach a course this fall, which is why I checked 75%.

I direct the writing center as an AP staff, not faculty. Our embedded consultant program is part of Writing Center services and we provide a consultant for 1 hour a week for every section of FYW (60+)

I developed the Writing Associates program as part of my wider position as WAC Coordinator, and I spend about half time on each.

The WPA position I hold is a staff position, not faculty.

1/3

Writing Fellows are trained and managed through a sequence of courses they take. I teach those courses so my work with undergraduate writing fellows counts as my teaching load, which I set as part of my WPA role.

I know our director does receive course releases, but I'm not sure how many.

It's considered as part of my normal workload as Writing Center Director.

1/3.

One course release per semester.

Assignment is a 3/3, my release for WAC is 1/1.

I am in a management position rather than a faculty position, so reassigned time does not apply.

Not a WPA

embedded tutors are not a consistent part of our program, however, tutors(consultants) in the WC are, and that's where 50+% of my time is assigned.

I am a full-time staff member. My time is divided between WAC and the writing center. Part of my job description includes managing WAC and WID consultants.  

I have a professional faculty contract, so yes. Half of my time is expected to be spent teaching and half as an administrator. Managing writing fellows means both teaching a credit-bearing tutoring writing course and managing fellows on a day-to-day basis.

20%

Hard to calculate. The WC Director, the FYW Director, and the WPA all get release time for their work which might include managing the fellows.

I receive this time for managing Fellows and for overseeing WAC

spring

we are full time, year round professional staff

I am on a 12-month contract as WAC Director

I am not a WPA.

I'm a 12-month administrator.

As above, there is no additional compensation because embedded consultants are part of our WC service model.

I'm on a %100, 12 month Administrative and Professional staff position.

My position is 12 month. So is my AD's.

Yes, in the form of a salary determined by my contract. Writing Fellows work is not "extra" for me.

I believe our director does receive some compensation for the summer, but I'm not sure how much.

We don't offer course-embedded tutoring during the winter or summer (but I am still paid my regular salary as there's plenty of other work to do).

I work as a 12-month employee.

Not a WPA

Same as above. I'm considered full-time professional staff, so I'm a 12-month employee.

I am a fulltime staff member of the Writing and Communication Centre, so I work and am paid for full time hours year-round.

However, I do not do much coordination of the fellows in the summer. Graduate students here at Emory are kind of protected.

I have a 12-month contract (non-WPA faculty have 9-month contracts), approximately 60% of which is WPA (with a significantly reduced teaching load).

our writing centre is staffed by full time professionals who are salaried - we coordinate the centre and also serve as instructors

1 course release but not every semester.

for full-time faculty, four hours/week of tutoring + workshops and training=one course release per academic year

Yes, please explain, e.g., 1 year instructor program: $1,000; one course re...

Participating GSI’s in Art of Writing receive annual award

$500.00 to participate for 1 semester of a WAC program.

Sort of--participants in our WAC seminar can apply for "Instructional Redesign" credit, which involves participation in our Institute for Teaching and Learning's teaching support program, several levels of which offer raises or bonuses to their base salary. Participation in approved "endorsements", including our WAC seminar, makes them eligible for the highest tier of additional funding, if they develop a teaching portfolio in addition to participating in the endorsement.

Instructor service in the writing center as tutors/fellows is balanced against their teaching load. It is not "extra."

Again, I'm not totally sure. Our director would know.

We don't have this category.

n/a

It's complicated :) Our NTT WAC consultants used to get a course release, but now they do this work as an overload to their regular 4-4 load. They are paid the equivalent of one course per semester; they do not work during winter/summer breaks. Our WID consultants are TT faculty. They used to receive a small stipend, but that went away several years ago because of budget cuts. Now they just do it out of interest, and it counts toward their university service.

All writing to learn instructors who submit teaching materials for review and pass, receive a stipend of $250 for meeting WL best practices.

salary

1 course reassignment and 1 semester-long Fellows Workshop (course)

Our Undergrad Writing Fellows are paid an hourly rate for 2 hours/course per week each term. They're typically assigned to two to four courses/term.

Our Undergrad Writing Fellows are paid an hourly rate for 2 hours/course per week each term. They're typically assigned to two to four courses/term.

Students receive credit the first semester in the program while they take the gateway course. After that they receive a stipend for each semester they work in the Program.

My TA does get compensate for up to 100 hours of work for me over a term.

Students are paid as Graduate Assistants, Work Study and regular student worker hourly wages.

An hourly wage at a higher rate than tutors.

The Writing Fellows receive a small stipend.

$7,000 per course

stipend

hourly

Hourly pay

$10 per hour

Hourly rate

1st year: $600/semester; 2nd year: $700/semester; 3rd year: $800/semester; undergraduate leadership ("Mentor Fellows"): $1,500/semester

we contract Graduate writing facilitators (approx. 10) and provide a small stipend to Writing and Learning Peers in their second and subsequent terms volunteering with us

The rate for a writing fellow is $14/hour and writing fellows may work up to 70 hours a semester in support of the partnering course.

1st semester = one full course unit (4 credits) 2nd semester = $1000 grant applied to tuition 3rd semester = $2000 grant 4th+ semesters = $3000 grant

1 hour of pay per client per meeting, up to 2 hours per semester (at Illinois minimum wage of $9.25/hr)

$14/hour for approx. 80 hours a semester

$11.25/hour

$10 an hour, 10 hours a week.

Our writing center staffs roughly 70 peer consultants and all work in classrooms as well as face-to-face at physical locations. For all their hours, they are paid according to our university's student wage guidelines

Writing Fellows typically earn minimum wage for their work

Hourly pay as our TAs are unionized

Undergraduates are paid on an hourly salary rate of 9$-$10 an hour.

Students are paid hourly, $13.25. Fellows work 5 hours per week with their class, in whatever capacity is most needed: visiting the course, consulting, or planning. They are also asked to do one writing presentation a semester.

Writing center tutors are paid hourly wage.

Students are paid hourly, $13.25. Fellows work 5 hours per week with their class, in whatever capacity is most needed: visiting the course, consulting, or planning. They are also asked to do one writing presentation a semester.

Graduate writing fellows receive $1000 for each quarter they work in, so $3000 for the academic year. They host 2 hours of consultations a week, one 3-hour writing retreat a quarter, and attend monthly professional development meetings. They also complete a year-long project related to the program or to graduate writing. As lead fellow, I receive $3500 for the academic year to coordinate the program.

Students are paid an hourly wage that depends upon graduate or undergraduate status and goes up with experience.

$1200 per semester

Scholarship of $1000 per semester

$10 per hour. Students usually work 10 hours per class section.

Our Graduate Writing Center is run by two graduate student Coordinators, each provided a 20 hr/wk stipend during the academic year with rates dependent on educational level. We have a separate budget for 4 hourly peer writing tutors who work 5hrs/wk.

Graduate students receive their stipend, but their only responsibility is WAC fellow.

Most graduate students who work in our writing center are on TAships sponsored by one or another departments (most of English, also history); occasionally graduate students as well as all undergraduate TAs earn an hourly wage. In addition, we have a limited number of internships that are compensated with course credit.

Not a stipend; they are paid by the hour

They get paid hourly up to 100 hours.

Undergraduate student tutors are paid an hourly wage. For graduate student tutors, their writing center work is an assistantship assignment.

Student writing fellows are paid at the university's student employee hourly rate of $10.50 per hour. Fellows typically log 2 hours of work per conference (which includes 40 minutes prep to comment on a draft, a 40 minute conference, and 40 minutes for communication with the course professor via conference report.)

After a student has been a PAL with one year of experience, they can petition for compensation. It is generally granted.

wages per hour

It's just the regular tutor wage ($8.30/hour).

Initial CRLA training 2 days (8hours). In semester training 4 hours over 4 days.

8 days, 8 hours per day

Small group training to onboard, then ongoing professional development meetings 5 - 6 times/year

To qualify fellows need to earn certificates in teaching beyond the standard GSI training (hours vary)

1-hour workshops conducted by English Dept. faculty/instructors offered each semester. Usually, there are maybe 3-4 workshops. Not required, but strongly encouraged.

Our WAC seminar is usually five three-hour sessions offered either over five weeks or over an intensive week.

The Writing Center Coordinator hosts required workshops throughout the academic year. Faculty also host workshops based on their expertise. It's all part of our CPD.

1-hour workshops conducted by English Dept. faculty/instructors offered each semester. Usually, there are maybe 3-4 workshops. Not required, but strongly encouraged.

Our WAC seminar is usually five three-hour sessions offered either over five weeks or over an intensive week.

Our WAC/SWS program supports the teaching of writing and collaborates with our writing center to provided embedded consultant support in upper-division writing courses. Faculty are supported in their instruction via workshops, training opportunities, and a committee website/newsletter.

Not applicable.

I'm not sure

We currently do not hire professionals/instructors to serve as writing fellows

We don't have instructor writing fellows.

We have a Professional Development series that meets twice per month.

I work one on one with all new instructors to WL courses to go over orientation materials. I also support them in assignment design, rubric design for their WL course. I also do professional development workshops related to writing.

One semester-long, weekly workshop (~2 hours/week work time)

IF they decide to teach, it depends on what they teach. If it is Grammar, then it is ad hoc training and off and on for a year. As far as I know that is the only class they have elected to teach. It is one credit and can be worked into a schedule.

Writing fellows training is a pre-semester collaboration with faculty, writing center staff, and librarians, along with undergraduate fellows

students complete a half-unit (2-credit) training course and participate in subsequent development opportunities

Fellows take two 2-credit training courses: one as a prerequisite for hiring, and one in their first semester as writing fellows

2 credit course (one semester) + approx. 15 additional training

Because our embedded consultant program supports classes all year, we have a variety of training hours. All staff attend a two-day all-day orientation before the semester begins, all new staff take a 1-credit tutor training course taught by the director of WAC/SWS, and we provide mentor groups and professional development trainings all year long.

We have our own internally developed robust initial training program that involves 15+ hours of training. Then training continues at monthly meetings throughout the year.

We are currently working on a training module that will be part of the training we do for all our writing tutors.

Undergraduate student tutors take a 3-hour semester-long course (for credit) before being able to apply to work in the writing center (they are not always hired based on this experience). They also go through our multi-day orientation and participate in ongoing professional development when employed.

Training in a 4-credit course for all writing center consultants and then additional training for the fellows selected from the writing center consultant pool

Students usually have 4 one-hour meetings per semester.

Our introductory training program is offered online over the summer, and includes 5 modules intended to take 3 hours a piece. Once on the job, we do continuing professional development through weekly staff meetings.

One-semester 2 credit hour tutor training course plus 3 required monthly professional development meetings/trainings (2 hours each) per semester.

One single five-hour training session at the start of academic year; bi-weekly one hour sessions throughout each semester. Senior fellows organize and facilitate many bi-weekly meetings.

Monthly professional development meetings - 2 hrs long

Fellows take two 2-credit training courses: one as a prerequisite for hiring, and one in their first semester as writing fellows

Because our embedded consultant program supports classes all year, we have a variety of training hours. All staff attend a two-day all-day orientation before the semester begins, all new staff take a 1-credit tutor training course taught by the director of WAC/SWS, and we provide mentor groups and professional development trainings all year long.

4 credit 4920 course on Peer Tutor Training, plus staff meetings, plus 1:1s with my AD.

2 credit course (one semester) + approx. 15 additional training

Training is continuous beyond the initial semester-long training seminar: staff meetings, "veteran fellow" seminars; peer-coaching, etc.

We provide intensive onboard training (approx. 6 hours) across two days and the year long weekly PD meetings

Student writing fellows are mentored by the cooperating faculty member.

Semester-long writing intensive practicum course

writing tutors attend a 10-hour training at the beginning of the semester along with 40 other tutors from across disciplines. Writing tutors then meet with me weekly to be further trained about effective strategies for tutoring writing. For Embedded tutors, which we've only had in place since spring 2019, they meet weekly with me and it's less like a "course" and more like a collaborative effort to create training appropriate to that particular situation. I like the idea of embedding writing tutors into courses other than composition...

unsure

Writing fellows are trained and mentored through a 3-course sequence that includes an original research project. Courses 2 and 3 are undertaken while the student is serving as an embedded fellow.

3 credit, semester-long training seminar.

Our writing center only serves graduate students.

I'm not sure. I'm not affiliated with this program.

All undergraduate tutors and most graduate tutors take a semester-long for-credit tutor education course, and they intern in the writing center for approximately 20 hours; all tutors also participate in ongoing education through weekly, hour-long staff meetings.

I am not the WC Director so I don't know how she trains the tutors.

12 hours of paid training before their first term working with us; 12 hours of paid PD during each term

We have a 3-course series the Fellows enroll in.

They take a one semester course and then receive on-going mentoring.

students complete a half-unit (2-credit) training course and participate in subsequent development opportunities

2 credit course (one semester) + approx. 15 additional training

We staff between 2-3 graduate consultants each year and they are trained the same way as our undergraduate staff (see above).

A boot camp at the beginning of the summer + monthly professional development meetings throughout the academic year.

We have our own internally developed robust initial training program that involves 15+ hours of training. Then training continues at monthly meetings throughout the year.

Currently, we have a single session but are working on a more in-depth day long workshop for both grad and undergrad embedded tutors.

Monthly professional development meetings - 2 hours - different from the undergraduate PD meetings.

Writing tutors complete a quarter-long, 4-unit course on the theory and practice of one-to-one writing instruction

must have worked/been trained in WC first, then orientation for embedded Mentor program and ongoing PD that meets every other week

Graduate student tutors participate in a multi-day orientation and take a 1-hour semester-long course (for credit) during their first semester working in the writing center. As with the rest of the staff, they also participate in our ongoing professional development projects throughout the year.

No graduate students.

We provide training to graduate facilitators on an "as needed" basis - it involves shadowing and direct instruction, depending on which service the student is going to support

Graduate student writing fellows are mentored by their cooperating faculty member.

N/A

unsure

We do not have graduate writing fellows (yet).

Formerly, tutors were trained through a course supported by an NSF grant. We are currently developing new protocols for training new tutors through a 4hr workshop at the beginning of the year then periodic trainings throughout the year.

Graduate students now take a semester-long, for-credit tutor education course and also intern approximately 20 hours in our writing center. In addition to attending weekly staff meetings, they also participate in a "grad seminar" held over 8-10 hours each semester and dedicated to ad hoc topics of interest and need.

Our branch campus does not have graduate students in English or Writing.

Student employment budget for our unit has been cut for summer 2020

All instructors are planning their courses for fall for an online environment even though our campus is inviting students back for f2f classes. Because of budget cuts, we are down 16 comp course offerings, and just learned that the Advising team still has 2000 students who need those classes. The dept. head is asking instructors to take an overload.

We are preparing for the possibility of fully online. I am compensated $250 to create a workshop.

NB: We don't have any writing programs at my U; we just have the writing center.

no embedded tutors/mentors in place at this time.

I've put all training, orientation, and professional development workshops for summer in an online format. WC is also online. But we have no idea about writing classes right now, aside from how they are likely to be face to face. We just don't know how yet.

No affect no far

Everything is on hold for 20-21

We have maintained limited f2f hours (by appointment only) with most services transitioned to an asynchronous format with plans for a synchronous option to be added soon.