When it comes to securing funding from upper administration, all writing center directors
share a similar rhetorical goal: to justify the “worth” of their writing centers. What kinds of …

In times of fiscal constraint, administrators must closely examine how monies are spent and
what programs can be sacrificed so that others may be maintained. At one time a Writing …

Writing centers are feeling the effects of budget reductions across higher education
nationwide. Like other student services that don't offer credits or produce revenue, writing …

Stephen North's 1984 article,“The Idea of a Writing Center,” highlighted the struggle writing
centers face with regard to misperceptions about their function and purpose. North …

Essays about faculty, student, and administrator misperceptions are nearly as old as Writing
Center studies itself. Often these essays appear to assume that the problem is one of …

My title contains the first of many generalizations I will issue. I forewarn you that I will be
painting with a very broad brush, more like a road roller than a paint roller. That said, I do …

The writing center frontier often exists at an institutional crossroads—caught between
playing a numbers game to justify continued funding from university administration and …

“What just happened?” I asked myself repeatedly as I embarked upon the hour-long drive
back to my campus after my first paid speaking engagement. I was invited by a small liberal …

The publication of this issue of Praxis follows the 2015 South Central Writing Center
Association (SCWCA) conference held at the University of Texas at Austin in February of this …

It's all in the numbers. I wish it wasn't, but I became acutely aware of the qualitative pressure
placed on writing centers when I became not only assistant director of our university's writing …