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
Please join us for our fall SWCA-KY event and invite your writing center colleagues.
This workshop will focus on 1) reflecting on our challenges and choices as writing center professionals during this time of crisis and then 2) using those experiences to help create proposals for the upcoming SWCA conference.
This workshop is open to anyone involved with KY Writing Centers to attend -- so, please encourage your undergrad staffers, your grad students, and/or your assistant directors to be part of what I hope will be a thoughtful conversation.
We'll use our time to look carefully at the CFP and then to do some brainstorming about our current and recent work in our respective programs. In the end, participants will have the beginnings of a conference proposal draft.
It is my hope that we can use this time to demystify conference proposal drafting (especially for folks who might feel less than confident about writing center research) and to encourage each other to showcase their efforts at SWCA. Despite my regrets about us not being able to gather in Memphis (one of my favorite cities for food and music!), I think this could potentially be the biggest and most accessible SWCA ever. I'd love to see a record number of KY WC's represented.
Join us online Feb. 11-13, 2021, at the SWCA 2021 Conference to discuss the transformations writing center professionals and the field undertake during times of crisis and trauma. The COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice, social unrest, natural disasters, and significant changes in the structure and leadership of higher education have greatly accelerated the pace of these changes and prompted all of us in the writing center field to reconsider many aspects of our approaches to writing center work and everyday operations. Writing center professionals are called not just to react, but to proactively transform their identities, missions, and services.
We are called to do this transformational work while coping with old and emergent traumas, mentoring and supporting tutors and clients during multiple crises, and seeking to mitigate new realities of higher education. This conference seeks to emphasize the ways trauma creates opportunities for us to transform as a discipline.
Further details are available on the SWCA website.
Full details now available for the
https://southeasternwritingcenter.wildapricot.org/event-3916428
SWCA-GA and the University Writing Center at UWG Present
Fall Forum: Race & the Writing Center
Featuring a discussion led by Kristina Aikens, author of "Prioritizing Antiracism in Writing Tutor Education"
Schedule for the Day:
9 a.m.-10 a.m.:
Welcome & Discussion/Q&A led by Kristina Aikens, author of "Prioritizing Antiracism in Writing Tutor Education: How We Teach Writing Tutors" (make sure you've read this prior to for discussion purposes) https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/66daf8af9e0148d080bdb3d0a384be56
Welcome & Discussion/Q&A led by Kristina Aikens, author of "Prioritizing Antiracism in Writing Tutor Education: How We Teach Writing Tutors" (make sure you've read this prior to for discussion purposes)
https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/66daf8af9e0148d080bdb3d0a384be56
Racial Justice & the WCC:https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/3262cca67ea84187b0ad25700acbc918 Asynchronous & Synchronous Tutoring/Pandemic Tutoring: https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/c83af8c0780944fc8d4a2fb13a94c1ed Serving/Working with Students in COVID Times: https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/766a5298bfdd47e18edeb843941a82fa
11:30 a.m.: Closing Discussion & Farewells
Registration: https://forms.gle/LqTryUTeD31ESST86 (please do this sooner rather than later!)
Cost: Nothing! Zilch! Nada! :)
Once we get closer to the date, I'll send out a follow-up email to registrants with our meeting links & any final instructions. Feel free to spread this far and wide to your staff at your institutions. I'm excited for this great opportunity & look forward to seeing you all there!
The latest issue of the academic journal, Southern Discourse in the Center, 24-1, is now available online. If you are a SWCA member, you should have received your print copy in the spring.
Access SDC archives, submission guidelines, and more.
Once we get closer to the date, I'll send out a follow-up email to registrants with our meeting link & any final instructions. Feel free to spread this far and wide to your staff at your institutions. I'm excited for this great opportunity & look forward to seeing you all there!
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