April Showers Bring . . . New Titles: A Message From Leadership

Greetings, Waldenites!

Recently you may have noticed a change on the Writing Center website and in our e-mail signatures. This is not some ploy to confuse you all. Rather, we have undergone a restructuring within the center, and part of this restructuring has presented the Writing Center staff with new (and well-deserved!) titles. No longer will you see writing tutors. Instead, we are writing instructors.

Why the switch? The Writing Center staff is a very knowledgeable and busy group of people, and the term tutor does not accurately reflect everything we do, which is a lot: conduct paper reviews, host webinars, create website content, answer questions about writing, post to social media, design tutorials and course guides, write blog posts, and teach at residencies. At the heart of the Center is writing instruction, so the term instructor better indicates our job on a day-to-day basis. I hope this title shift will better represent our work and services to people outside of our center. It also appeases us wordsmiths. (What can I say? We are a bunch of word nerds and grammar geeks, so having a title that did not define what we do was just preposterous!)

What will change for you, the student? Nothing! We will still be offering all of our same services, including paper reviews. We will just be updating our signatures and language on the website and scheduling system to reflect these new titles. 

We are the same folks who have always been here for you, just with shiny new titles. Stop by our About Us page to learn more about each of the instructors.

We look forward to continuing to work with you!

Amy Kubista

Manager of Writing Instructional Services