Writing Centers at the Center of Change

<p>Writing Centers at the Center of Change looks at how eleven centers internationally adapted to change at their institutions during a decade when their very success has become a valued commodity in a larger struggle for resources on many campuses. </p><p>Bringing together both US and international perspectives this volume offers solutions for adapting to change in the world of writing centers ranging from the logistical to the pedagogical and even to the existential. Each author discusses the origins appropriate responses and partners to seek when change comes from within a school or outside it. Chapters document new programs being formed under changing circumstances and suggest ways to navigate professional or pedagogical changes that may undermine the hard work of more than four decades of writing-center professionals.</p><p>The book’s audience includes writing center and learning-commons administrators university librarians deans department chairs affiliated with writing centers. It will also be useful for graduate students in composition rhetoric and academic writing. </p>