NWCA/ECWCA 1999

Conference Announcement

National and East Central

Writing Centers Associations

1999 Conference

Writing Center 2000:
Meeting the Challenges of the New Century

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
April 15-17, 1999

Featured Speakers:
Professor Muriel Harris, Purdue University
Professor Edward M. White, California State University, San Bernardino


The 1999 conference of the National Writing Centers Association (NWCA) will be held in conjunction with the conference of the East Central Writing Centers Association (ECWCA) and hosted by the Campus Writing Program of Indiana University. All meetings will be held in the Indiana Memorial Union on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. (NWCA conferences are held every other year in conjunction with the conference of one of the regional affiliates of the national organization.)

Those invited include writing center administrators and staff, university or high school administrators, graduate and undergraduate writing consultants and tutors, and teachers of writing in composition programs and across the disciplines. Participants will meet to discuss the multiple ways that writing centers work to enhance the culture of writing instruction in their own institutions; to share insights, strategies, and practices; to celebrate the work done in writing centers and to imagine what else might be done; and to foster communication across disciplines, between institutions, and among participants. Membership in ECWCA or NWCA is not required for attendance.

A formal call for proposals will be made in September 1998. Proposals on the topics listed above will be accepted for 20-minute individual presentations or 50-minute panels of related presentations; proposals for workshops and for poster presentations will also be considered. Deadline for submission is December 1, 1998; presenters will be notified about January 15, 1999. Inquiries for further information on the upcoming conference may be made to:


Ray Smith, Director
Campus Writing Program
Franklin Hall 008
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405

e-mail: nwca99@indiana.edu
phone: (812) 855-4928

The East Central Writing Centers Association is a regional affiliate of the National Writing Centers Association (NWCA), an NCTE assembly. Information on this year's conference will be added to this site as it becomes available.

For historical perspective, the following information is available about the 1997 ECWCA conference.

This Web site is maintained by the Campus Writing Program at Indiana University Bloomington. Contact John Peterson, joepeter@indiana.edu, for suggestions or further information on the Web site.

This site was last updated July 22, 1998.