If you are interested in a leadership position or would like to nominate someone else for a leadership position with the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association, please complete this nomination form by Friday, May 9 at 11:59pm MT.

Several positions are available, and terms will begin in June 2025:

• Secretary: 2-year term
• Tutor Representative: 1-year term
• Outreach Coordinator: 2-year term
• Web Editor/Online Communications: 3-year term
• Arizona State Representative: 2-year term
• Colorado State Representative: 2-year term
• Montana State Representative: 2-year term
• New Mexico State Representative: 2-year term
• Utah State Representative: 2-year term
• Wyoming State Representative: 2-year term

 The duties for each position may be found at https://rmwca.wildapricot.org/Bylaws. 

You may declare your candidacy by completing the nomination form before Friday, May 9 at 11:59pm MDT.

All nominees will be contacted after the nomination period ends to confirm their candidacy. All candidates must be either current institutional or individual members of the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association (RMWCA). You may join the RMWCA at https://www.rmwca.org.

RMWCA Chat and Chew: Navigating Uncertainty

Join the RMWCA for a Chat and Chew focused on Navigating Uncertainty. This event will be on Wednesday, May 7, from 11:00am-12:00pm MDT, on Zoom. 

REGISTER

As we move toward summer and the next academic year, many administrators and tutors will be navigating various levels and degrees of uncertainty in individual, writing center, and institutional contexts. 

Join your colleagues in conversation to share strategies and approaches to navigating uncertainties, and consider how we can build further support systems for administrators and tutors. 

Please email Outreach Coordinator Olivia Tracy at olivia.tracy@du.edu with any questions.

We wanted to take a moment and thank you all for being part of RMWCA TutorCon 2025 last week.

Attendees (203 of them!) from 2 countries and 36 states hopped onto Discord for 26 presentations, workshops, and roundtables from 60 great presenters. We also collected 36 very photogenic pics of all our favorite furry friends and family, shared some great memes and heard a wonderful keynote from Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison, PhD (whose publication, ​​Tutors Matter, Too: Supporting Writing Tutors through Racial Justice inspired this year’s theme: Tutors Too.)

The Discord server will remain open if you want to pop back in at a later time and revisit the cute pet pics, connect with others, or even keep the conversations going. The videos in the gallery will expire in just two weeks, but the other posts will remain (unless the presenter removes them.) 

We would very much love your feedback about your experience today! Please fill out this short survey:https://forms.gle/eZzBck3QUQbyruTQ6 

Thank you again for being part of this year’s conference. We hope to see you all again soon.

RMWCA Members, don't forget about the upcoming deadline for applications for research or travel grants or seed money from Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association (RMWCA). 

A key goal of RMWCA is "to facilitate community and professional development among RMWCA members," and one of the ways we do that is by offering the twice-yearly opportunity for members to apply for research or travel grants. Grant amounts depend on out total available funding during each grant cycle but generally range from $200 to $400. 

Travel grants may be used to offset costs for attending writing center conferences; we ask you to provide a travel budget for a specific conference and to describe your purpose and role in attending that conference. 

Research grants may be used to offset costs for a specific writing center-related research project you are undertaking; the application form is the same as for travel grants and similarly asks you to provide a budget for your research, describe the project, and explain how potential funding will support your work. 

All members of RMWCA are eligible to apply for the grants. The selection committee will consist of the RMWCA Executive Board, and there are two deadlines for the grants:  January 15 and September 1 of each year. Applications will be evaluated and funds will be dispersed based on the following criteria:

• RMWCA membership
• Financial need
• Representation of an underrepresented demographic
• Not having received funding within the previous year
• Quality of application
• Benefit for general membership (outcomes, inclusion, etc.)

To apply for the grants or seed money go to https://rmwca.wildapricot.org/Travel-&-Research-Grants.  You will need to log in to your RMWCA account to access the page.

The next deadline is January 15, 2025. 

If you have any questions, please write to us a tutorcon.rmwca@gmail.com.

Chat and Chew: TutorCon Q&A

Monday, December 09, 2024 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM MST

ZOOM (link provided at registration)

Join RMWCA for a discussion and information session about TutorCon 2025!

Come join us to talk about the conference and proposal process, ask questions, and be in community with your colleagues. 

Register: https://bit.ly/RMWCAChatChew1209

Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association TutorCon 2025

Call for Proposals

Deadline: January 21, 2025

Theme: Tutors Too

For TutorCon 2025, we invite you to share tutor perspectives that may sometimes get lost in the many moving pieces of writing center work. Creativity in conceptualizing, planning, and delivery is welcome. We encourage you to share your works-in-process or works in development, in a creative form or in terms of one or more of these categories: Individual presentations, Conference workshops, Workshop-in-a-Box or Training-in-a-Box , Roundtable discussions, & Tutoring Approaches Exchange

See the complete CFP / Register: https://bit.ly/RMWCATutorCon2025

Submit your proposal using this Google form.  For more information, check out the proposal guidance page.

Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association TutorCon 2025: Tutors Too

February 28, 2025 – Virtual/Online

Tutors are constantly inhabiting complex, liminal spaces as they address their own needs and writers’ needs, negotiate instructor expectations, and follow the direction of administrators. As such, listening to the voices of tutors from a variety of academic, cultural, and personal backgrounds and identities matters. We want to explore how tutors navigate these shifting responsibilities and shape their writing centers by amplifying their stories and voices. For TutorCon 2025, we invite you to share tutor perspectives that may sometimes get lost in the many moving pieces of writing center work.

See CFP / Register: https://bit.ly/RMWCATutorCon2025

re-posted from: NCPTW

Juli Parrish, Director of the University of Denver (UD) Writing Center was awarded the 2024 Ron Maxwell Distinguished Leadership Award at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing in Tacoma, Washington on October 18. Parrish, who was unable to attend the conference, has directed the UD Writing Center scine 2015 and has a long history of engagement with NCPTW. The Maxwell Award selection committee (composed of former award recipients) recognized how her values around peer writing tutoring and collaborative learning extend throughout her work with NCPTW. Especially noteworthy has been her investment in mentoring peer tutors’ attendance and presentation at NCPTW and beyond. One nominator noted that she has “guided and mentored at least 70 undergraduate and graduate peer tutors to present at national and regional writing center conferences,” including NCPTW. This nominator went on to identify her impact on “countless undergraduate adn graduate consultants as they develop leadership positions within the writing center and beyond in their chosen professions.”

Those who nominated her for this award described with admiration Dr. Parrish’s history of supporting and mentoring peer writing tutors across a number of contexts, including the peer observation model she and her staff implemented during the Pandemic, the collaboratively developed asynchronous feedback model that increased accessibility particularly for neurodivergent students, and her leadership roles with Center Moves and the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association.

The Center Moves Editorial Team is thrilled to inform you that the second issue of Center Moves: A Peer-Reviewed Archive of Tutor Training Materials is live!

This issue centered on two tutor training topics: how to support tutors with linguistic justice mindfulness and with tutoring citation formatting. Please check out our three fantastic submissions!

The Center Moves Editorial Board would also like to thank our reviewers for this issue, Lori Jacobson, College of William and Mary; Jack Kenigsberg, Hunter College; John Bradley, Vanderbilt University; and Erik Echols, University of Washington, Bothell. Additional thanks to Jamaica Ritcher, University of Idaho, for being one of the founding editors of Center Moves and the submissions editor for this second issue. All of us on the board are sad to have her step away from Center Moves and wish her well on her future endeavors.

Applications for a research or travel grants from the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association are currently open. 

The application deadline is August 15, 2024. All members of RMWCA are eligible to apply for the grants.

To learn more, and to apply for the grants or seed money, go to https://rmwca.org/Travel-&-Research-Grants. You will need to log in to your RMWCA account to access the page.

If you have any questions, please write to RMWCA President Heather Graham at heather.graham@slcc.edu