You're invited to the 2022 SWCA Conference
At the 2022 SWCA Conference, we invite you to explore the ways writing centers are places of advocacy and renewal, places that navigate toward important changes and innovations at our institutions. The conference theme--"Navigating the Rivers of Change"--recognizes that we are anything but static. As you think about how your writing center navigates change, we encourage you to use our host city, Memphis, TN, as inspiration for your proposals.
Check out the Call for Papers and submit your proposal by the October 25, 11:59pm, deadline.
WHAT: 2022 SWCA conference WHEN: February 10-12, 2022 WHERE: The Guest House at Graceland in Memphis, TN! WHO: Open to all
Sponsored by the SWCA, Christian Brothers University, and the CBU Writing and Communications Corner.
Registration and lodging info coming soon. Please send any conference-related inquiries to conference chair, Clayann Gilliam Panetta (cpanetta@cbu.edu).
We hope you’re all doing well and enjoyed the great online conference this year on Trauma and Transformation. I’m writing to share with you one of the many ways SWCA continues its support of the outstanding writing center work taking place throughout our region and beyond—SWCA CARE.
The SWCA-CARE program (Center Acknowledgment & Recognition of Excellence) offers access to writing center planning materials, rubrics, research, and resources related to continued enhancement of your centers, including SWCA certification. You’ll find information on SWCA-CARE on the website.
The SWCA-CARE co-chairs provide regular webinars that offer SWCA members more insight into the certification program. Each webinar will be hosted online. The webinars will focus on the basic information that you can use to get started (or finish!) your certification application. In addition, facilitators will be prepared to answer questions regarding the application process or your specific questions.
We hope you’ll join members of the Research & Development committee for one of the June or July webinars. Sign up here!
SWCA Co-Chairs, Joy Bracewell & Candis Bond
Need funds to support your writing center research or professional development? Consider applying for the SWCA Christine Cozzens Research Grant and Initiative Program (CCRGIP) fall award.
The SWCA CCRGIP is designed to encourage collaboration among new and established centers, support professional development for writing center administrators and staff, and further writing center research and scholarship throughout the SWCA region.
The program awards up to $500 in grants per term.
Application deadline for fall 2021 award: July 15
Contact Jenny Koster (Chair of the CCRGIP Selection Committee) for questions or additional information.
Learn more about how to apply for the CCRGIP
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The Writing and Reading Lab of Gulf Coast State College would like to invite you to this year’s SWCA-Florida Tutor Collaboration Day.
Date: May 21, 2021 Time: 9:15-11:30 a.m. (EST) Location: on Zoom in the GCSC virtual Writing and Reading Lab Register: https://tinyurl.com/eez72mty (NO REGISTRATION FEE)
Date: May 21, 2021
Time: 9:15-11:30 a.m. (EST)
Location: on Zoom in the GCSC virtual Writing and Reading Lab
Register: https://tinyurl.com/eez72mty
(NO REGISTRATION FEE)
This year’s virtual Tutor Collaboration Day will bring together tutors, consultants, and directors across Florida for an informal discussion of topics about next steps for our writing centers as our institutions return to in-person instruction. These discussions will be open to all attendees so that we can share our experiences over the last year and our ideas for moving forward.
Download the flyer to share event details and consider facilitating a 30-minute discussion. For more information, contact Mary Middlemas at mmiddlem3@gulfcoast.edu.
The fall 2020 issue of SDC can now be read online. We also have a new archives structure that allows you to download individual pdfs of articles from this issue, in addition to the pdf of the entire issue, and will be updating our past issues over the next few months to allow for this as well.
Enjoy these texts in SDC 24.2:
We're excited to see you at the 2021 conference. This year, you can register as an individual, or your center director can register a group from your center at a discounted rate. Either way, all registrants will receive information as the conference approaches about how to access conference sessions online.
Please note:
In lieu of the traditional keynote address, the 2021 Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA) virtual conference will feature a keynote panel dedicated to elevating the voices, experiences, and practices of undergraduate and graduate tutors who identify as Black/African American. The SWCA board invites nominations (including self-nominations) for Black/African American-identifying student-tutors to participate as featured panelists for the fully-online 2021 SWCA Conference, “Trauma and Transformation,” to amplify voices often silenced yet most impacted by structural racism. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Talisha Hatiwanger Morrison, who will work with panelists to develop a list of questions that will frame their roundtable discussion.
With Dr. Morrison, panelists will
We invite writing center administrators to nominate Black/African American student-tutors to participate on this featured keynote panel. Self-identified Black/African American student-tutors, both undergraduate and graduate, may nominate themselves. Submit nominations here.
Please include the following with your submission:
If self-nominated, please include a list of questions or topics the nominee suggests for discussion.
Download this Call for Nominations to share with colleagues.
Nominations are due via this form by December 31 by 11:59 PM.
Dear colleagues,
Given the rush around the end of the semester, we've decided to extend the deadline to propose to the 2021 Southeastern Writing Center association virtual conference to Thursday, December 10, 2020.
You can see the CFP and proposal information here: https://southeasternwritingcenter.wildapricot.org/conference
Please feel free to reach out to Janine Morris (jmorris2@nova.edu) with any questions.
We look forward to your proposals!
Best,
SWCA Executive Board
Dear Colleagues,
The deadline for SWCA Tutor and Achievement Awards has been extended to Monday, November 9, 2020.
Please direct questions and nominations to Megan Minarich (megan.l.minarich@vanderbilt.edu).
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Call for Award Nominations
Nominations for SWCA awards are due by Monday, November 9, 2020.
Nominations and self-nominations are welcome for all award categories: Undergraduate Tutor, Graduate Tutor, Professional Tutor, and SWCA Achievement Awards.
For information about nomination instructions and criteria, visit our Awards page. To submit a nomination, please email the required information to the SWCA Awards Committee Chair, Megan Minarich, at megan.l.minarich@vanderbilt.edu.
Nominees should be from schools within the SWCA region. For a nominee to be eligible for an award, the nominee, their center’s director, or their institution must be an SWCA member by October 31 of the year in which they are nominated.
This year’s SWCA-Florida Tutor Collaboration Day will take place Friday, November 13th from 9:15 am - 11:30 am. It will be held virtually and is free to attend!
This year’s TCD will bring together tutors, consultants, and writing centers across the state to discuss the challenge of creating change and how we can continue to evolve our centers. There will be eight sessions to choose from lasting 30 minutes each where we discuss some of the larger issues that we face as writing centers such as social justice, diversity, and inclusion. Each session will ask participants to collaborate and generate ideas that they would like to see in their writing centers.
We look forward to seeing you on November 13!
For login information, register here: https://forms.gle/eAc5TFsEoS9vTzaF8
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