Rocky Mountain Peer Tutoring Conference Call for Proposals
Rocky Mountain Peer Tutoring Conference March 6-7, 2009
Sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association
Hosted by Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Please direct inquiries and mail to Dr. Julie Simon/English Southern Utah University 351 West University Boulevard Cedar City, UT 84720
e-mail: simon@suu.edu
Proposals & Submissions
The following forms are provided in PDF and require the free Adobe Reader program to access. The form data can be completed by typing directly onto the form. Then the form can be saved to either print and mail or send as an e-mail attachment.
- Parking information and campus maps
- Proposal Form Submission
Deadline: Feb. 9, 2009--extended until noon, Friday, Feb. 13! - Early-bird Registration Form. You need the professional version of Adobe to make this one work.
Deadline: Feb. 23, 2009 - Another version of the Registration Form to copy and paste into your e-mail
To print and mail the form:
Send to Southern Utah University; RMPTC Conference c/o Julie Simon, 351 W. University Blvd., Cedar City, UT 84720
To e-mail the form:
Save the completed form and attach it to an e-mail. Please put RMPTC in the subject line and send to simon@suu.edu
Lodging:
The Stratford Court Hotel, 18 S. Main Street, about a 10-minute walk from the SUU campus, has agreed to a rate of $59 per night for conference goers (two per room) or $69 (for up to four in a room) for those who make reservations by Feb. 17. Mention RMPTC. Contact the hotel
(435-586-2433) for more information. The hotel's continental breakfast will not be available at this rate, but the SUU Writing Center will provide the morning meal.
For other lodging possibilities, visit the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce's hotel listings.
This Year’s Conference: Directors will meet Friday afternoon (March 6) 1-5 and dine together that evening. Directors and administrators are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute presentations on topics related to Writing Center administration or to the conference theme by Feb. 9 or by the extended deadline--Feb. 13.. Also March 6, the SUU English Department will invite writing assistants from across the region to become actors in a Friday evening live-action version of the game Clue that will be played to solve a Writing Center mystery. The March 7 Saturday session will feature presentations, a poster session and the keynote address by Dr. Joyce Kinkead, who will explore the conference theme "The Ripple Effect" by tracing the connections and affinities between undergraduate research and Writing Center programs.
Theme: “The Ripple Effect”: Everyone connected with Writing Center work is urged to respond by Monday, Feb. 9--now extended to noon Feb. 13--to a Call for Proposals that invites participants to consider the way Writing Centers change-- and could do more to change--people, pedagogy, institutions and communities.
Proposals:Proposals for the conference will be accepted through Feb. 13, 2009. Please complete the on-line registration and proposal forms and mail or e-mail to the addresses listed above. Forms may be submitted on-line as well on our conference website, which will be available through the SUU Writing Center website soon.
Remember: We will include poster presentations as well as oral presentations exploring a variety of writing and tutor related concepts. We look forward to hearing from you!
Here are some questions that you might consider as you think about the far-reaching effect your work has.
- How has your Writing Center acted as seedbed and inspiration for research and assessment? What questions are you pursuing and how are you managing to make time for research and assessment? How has your research work affected those involved and the institutional or community environment in which you work?
- What changes have you made in your mission and goal statements and what effects have those changes had?
- How has Writing Center practice or theory changed you personally—your career plans, your conception of teaching and writing, your confidence level, or your sense of community and commitment?
- How has your Writing Center tried to solve particular problems in staffing, scheduling, tutoring, public relations, budgeting, or theory building? What worked and didn’t work as you altered your practices to respond to your situation?
- How has your Writing Center helped re-define the relationship between students, writing assistants, faculty, and staff?
- How has the Writing Center worked, either formally or informally, to mentor individual students, staff members, and faculty? How does the Writing Center help individuals pursue and reinvent their goals?
- How has your Writing Center become a locus for redefining literacy and for supporting literacies of many cultures and perspectives?
- How have technological innovations affected your Writing Center?
- How do you sustain a sense of institutional memory and history as writing assistants and staff members leave or graduate and administrators change?
- How are you surviving or helping others to survive in a time of economic crisis?
- What partnerships or programs has your Writing Center initiated or been engaged in? What have the effects of those programs and presentations been?
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