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Writing Center Director, Alma College
- Developed new course for tutors: Taught ENG210, a course designed for writing center tutors, editors, and teachers. Most of my WC tutors took the course, and those who could not (due to scheduling conflicts) went through the course with us on a course wiki.
- Data from 2006-2007 school year: Entered into spreadsheet, analyzed, and made report to Provost and English department.
- Interviewed for tutors: I advertised for tutors, scheduled interviews, and interviewed 12 students for the WC tutor positions, including those who had tutored in previous years.
- Hired staff: After conducting interviews, I chose from those who applied based on the interview, writing samples they had submitted, and their availability.
- Directed training sessions for tutors: When the semester began, we had several training sessions/workshops for the tutors. We covered everything from how to deal with grammar and punctuation problems to working with ESL students. We subsequently had one follow-up workshop every month thereafter.
- Developed and carried out extensive advertising campaign: Delegated advertising campaign to tutors this year. They made flyers and bookmarks and visited classrooms.
- Updated website for writing center: Not much change but updated new tutors and other small details.
- Developed extensive record keeping system: Because I was starting from scratch, I felt it was imperative to make sure that better records were kept. So I have been keeping track of things like expenditures, hours of each tutor, and detailed student records of such things as the course they are writing the paper for (sorted by both department and by professor), number of visits per student, number of appointments made versus walk-ins, etc.
- Developed an electronic visitation form: Students, when coming to the WC, were having to fill out a form about their visit. The form asked questions that were irrelevant (like “campus phone”), asked questions that got answered poorly if at all (like “what are your plans for revision?”), and failed to answer questions that were valuable (like “What is your assignment?”). So I developed a new form, and have made it electronic as well on SurveyMonkey, which means I won’t have to enter all the data myself at the end of the year and can analyze the data much more easily.
- Developed a small database for Writing Center information that keeps track of students who visit, how often, the course they are writing for, the professor of that course, how long they stayed, and the reason for their visit. 
- Conducted document preparation workshop for education students

Publications
“Saturated by Color .” (Textbook Article) Discovering Arguments: An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Writing With Readings. Dean Memering and William Palmer, eds.  Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, 2008. (Forthcoming).

“When Two (or More) Heads are Better Than One: Collaborative Writing and Technology in the Freshman Composition Classroom” Teaching With Technology. (forthcoming).

“Healing Hope: The Promises of Stem Cell Therapy.” (Textbook Article) Discovering Arguments: An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Writing With Readings. Dean Memering and William Palmer, eds. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, 2006. 492-495.

“Trying To Save Lives: Are Embryonic Stem Cells Miracles or Murder?” (Textbook Article) Discovering Arguments: An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Writing With Readings. Dean Memering and William Palmer, eds. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, 2006. 492-495.

Conference Presentations
“Piloting a New Field Experience Placement: English 101.” Special Interest Group: College English/Education Connections. Elizabeth Brockman, chair. CCCC’s, Chicago, 2006. 

Workshops
"Assignments and Assessment: Writing Across the Curriculum." Coordinator and leader of faculty workshop, January 18, 2007. "Document Design for Education Portfolio." Coordinator and leader of student workshop, November 12 and 13, 2007.

Professional Development Activities
- Attended 2007 Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York
- Traveled in May to Iowa to Luther College to participate as a reader in the “critical thinking” stage of the Teagle project,
a reading assessment project encompassing six mid-west liberal arts colleges.
- Worked with the English Department Chair on fall freshman placement: attended meetings, co-created forms and
documents, advised, co-created placement procedure.
- Researched Michigan college writing programs to prepare for Writing Program development at Alma College
- Developed Writing Minor for Alma College with English department and co-chairs
- Designed new Digital Rhetoric course, a core for the new Writing Minor