{"id":6921,"date":"2014-02-10T19:07:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=6921"},"modified":"2014-02-10T19:07:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:07:49","slug":"four-seniors-attend-writing-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2014\/02\/10\/four-seniors-attend-writing-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Seniors Attend Writing Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seniors and Center for Writing tutors (l\u2013r) Mike Kelley, Hillary Smith, Jessica Pierce will be attending the Northeast Writing Center Association\u2019s annual conference in March. (Not pictured, Alex Wolff)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Four seniors and tutors at Keene State’s Center for Writing<\/a>\u2014Michael Kelly<\/strong> (architecture), Hillary Smith<\/strong> (secondary education), Jessica Pierce<\/strong> (psychology), and Alex Wolff<\/strong> (American studies)\u2014will be presenting at the Northeast Writing Center Association\u2019s<\/a> annual conference at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, on March 1\u20132. This year’s conference theme is\u00a0 “Difference & Inclusion: Writing Centers as Sites for Change,” and the students, in coordination with Dr. Phyllis Benay<\/strong>, the Center\u2019s director, and Cyndi Glover<\/strong>, the Center\u2019s assistant, will conduct a roundtable discussion entitled \u201cIt\u2019s Beginning to Look Too<\/em> Much Like Christmas: the Challenge of Teaching a Homogeneous Student Body.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whereas many of the conference participants come from very diverse campuses, KSC is still working to bring more diversity to its student body, so Keene’s approach to the conference theme is different than most. “Clearly, the problems we face around notions of inclusion are different than those that infiltrate a more diverse student body,” noted Prof. Benay. “Rather than helping our students adjust to a variety of dialects, we need to convince them that these dialects even exist. Rather than helping them accommodate diverse cultures, our challenge is finding ways to bring the rest of the world into their lives. \u2026\u00a0 From in-class workshops to one-on-one tutoring to assisting faculty as they design strategies and techniques, the Center for Writing tutors and director are committed to one overarching goal: moving students toward a more inclusive and complex world view.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four seniors and tutors at Keene State’s Center for Writing\u2014Michael Kelly (architecture), Hillary Smith (secondary education), Jessica Pierce (psychology), and Alex Wolff (American studies)\u2014will be presenting at the Northeast Writing Center Association\u2019s annual conference at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, on March 1\u20132. This year’s conference theme is\u00a0 “Difference & Inclusion: Writing Centers as … Continue reading Four Seniors Attend Writing Conference<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":6922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6925,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions\/6925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}