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Campus Writing Center, FY 06-07

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s the College embarked on a journey of reinventing itself - planning for improving the graduation rate of career and vocational students utilizing the vehicle of “learning academies” (actual cohorts of students who move together, programmatically, through their curricula, shored up by advisement, enrichment, and career development opportunities) – the Campus Writing Center likewise had to be thoughtful about how to contribute most effectively to the success of the larger endeavor, finding its niche within the repurposing of the curricular, academic support, e-Portfolio and career development activities that buttress student engagement and retention in these learning academies.

An outgrowth of deconsolidation of the former Instructional Support Services (ISS) program, the newly decentralized Campus Writing Center was happy to share its historical artifacts and resources with its newly-created sister project – the Academy Learning Center – a likewise decentralized program providing coordinated academic content area tutoring via the collation of several academic support “academy clusters”, each overseen by their respective academic departments and learning academy faculty.

The deconsolidation of ISS into the Campus Writing Center and the Academy Learning Center had definite benefits – both for establishing a clearer focus for the new Writing Center, and clarifying the identity and purpose of emerging learning academies:

• A dedicated, campus-wide Writing Center could focus on enhancing F2F tutoring with 24/7 iPASS e-tutoring support as a method for ensuring an adequate response to students taking WI courses across the curriculum;



• Having oversight/management of content-area tutoring placed within the academic departments themselves allows for a more seamless and profitable recruitment of potential tutors, gives departments the autonomy to determine their own selection/hiring criteria, and fosters in-service training designed specifically to the content needs of their respective tutoring cadres.



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