We want to invite you to attend the annual Pacific Northwest Writing Center Association (PNWCA) Conference 9-10 April 2010 at Western Oregon University. Oregon last hosted PNWCA in 2006, so we are thrilled to have the conference on Oregon soil again.

Please review the CFP and consider submitting a proposal and encouraging your peer consultants to do the same. Your fresh perspective regarding administrative issues and your tutors’ topics of interest for an audience of peers would greatly enhance this opportunity for professional development.

Additionally, to make conference participation more affordable for students, we invite student tutors who live more than 80 miles from Monmouth to apply for free housing when they register for the conference by the registration deadline: 12 March 2010. To register, go to www.wou.edu/las/humanities/writingctr/PNWCA.php.

We look forward to your response and seeing you and your consultants in April.

Katherine Schmidt, WOU Writing Center Director

Heidi Coley, WOU Writing Center English Writing Specialist for Spanish Speakers

Jennifer Morris, WOU Writing Center International Writing Specialist
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Registration forms can be printed and mailed to the Writing Center, or the electronic form can be completed and attached to an email to .

Here is a list of the 2009-2010 board members of the PNWCA:

Ann Harrington, President, Everett Community College, aharrington@everettcc.edu, 425-388-9309

Teresa Kramer, Vice President, Central Washington State University, kramerT@cwu.edu

Sandra L. Yannone, Treasurer, The Evergreen State College, yannons@evergreen.edu

Kit Bean, Secretary, Seattle Central Community College, kbean@sccd.ctc.edu

Dennis Bennett, At-Large Representative, Oregon State University, dennis.bennett@oregonstate.edu

Student Representatives:
Sean O'Mera, Central Washington University

Attached is the brochure for the April 17-18 PNWCA 2009 Conference. The brochure includes a tear-off sheet for registration.

We will be mailing you each a hard copy, as well, along with maps and other details that we're figuring out.

And we will continue to update this web page and our CWU writing center web site: http://www.cwu.edu/~writingcenter/pnwca.html
-Teresa

Information about the conference will be posted here. Please feel free to post any questions, and I'll try to answer them. -Teresa

Information will be continually updated on our Central Washington University writing center web site also:
http://www.cwu.edu/~writingcenter/pnwca.html

The conference fees will be the same as last year:
Full-time faculty/admin: $60
Part-time faculty/admin: $40
Student: $20

The conference hotel:
The Quality Inn
1700 Canyon Road
Ellensburg, WA, US, 98926
Phone: (509) 925-9800
Fax: (509) 925-2093

Just in case I missed anyone by email, I wanted to announce the date and location of the winter quarter "Directors' Day Out":

Tacoma Community College
Friday, February 20th

Agenda to come soon.

Please RSVP with Heather Urschel-Speir:

hurschelspeir@tacomacc.edu
or 253.566.5184

See you in T-Town!

Pacific Northwest Writing Centers Association Sixth Annual Conference

April 17-18, 2009
Ellensburg, Washington
What’s Central? Moving Toward the Bull’s-Eye in our Writing Centers

Proposal Deadline: February 17, 2009

At Central Washington University, we will gather centrifugally and centripetally—from the center out and the outside in—between mountains and dry plains, dams and wind farms, pine trees and fruit orchards, to examine the collaborative forces that push and pull us.

Attached is the report given by Teresa Kramer to IWCA about our regional association.

Please note that you'll need to log in to the site in order to view the attachment.

Dennis

Hi everyone,
My appreciation goes out to all of you who attended and made this such a special event. If you haven't already done so, please take a moment to provide feedback so we can make the next conference even better.

Want to see conference pics? Go to:

http://picasaweb.google.com/harrington.writingcenter.pnwca

(Brandon Osborn, photographer)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/djwudi/sets/72157604785356775/

(Micheal Hanscomb, NCSS, photographer)

See you all next year at Central Washington University.

Best,
Ann Harrington
2008 Site Chair

Please help improve future conferences by providing us with feedback on this year's conference.

Dear PNWCA 08 Guests,

Greetings from the Writing Center at Everett Community College, host to the 5th Annual PNWCA Regional Conference, “Are We Having Fun, Yet?” We can’t believe that all our planning and anticipation is almost over. We are looking forward to welcoming all of you next Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26th.

The program for the conference is attached and can be found at the bottom of this post.

Here are a few program details: