Dear colleagues,
We’re pleased to share the call for proposals for the 2025 MWCA Conference taking place March 13 – 15, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the campus of North Hennepin Community College. If you are working in our region, I hope you’ll consider joining us.
We invite you to submit a proposal for individual or panel presentations, workshops, roundtables, and poster presentations using Google Forms. Proposals are due November 20, 2024.
We’re excited about this year’s theme: PROMISE and PRACTICE: Tutoring Writing in Turbulent Times. You can read more about the CFP on our website, but as a preview, we invite you to consider questions like:
- How do we transform promise into action?
- How do (or can) we put promises into action through our work in diversity, equity, and inclusion (ability/disability, antiracism, gender identity, etc.)?
- What are the difficult conversations that are–or aren’t–happening in the Writing Center field, academic support, developmental education, course placement, or other spaces that affect our work?
- How does the Writing Center field exclude integrated Learning Center models, 2-year colleges, HBCU’s, tribal colleges, or other underrepresented spaces? To what effect?
- How can writing centers acknowledge (and change) their complicity in broken promises within their own institutions?
We also want to encourage you to submit your presentation for consideration as part of our keynote session, a new approach we’re using to amplify voices in our community. Those selected to take part in the keynote session will have conference fees waived in recognition of their contribution. You can read more about this part of our approach to the conference in the CFP, and indicate your desire to be considered in the submission form.
We look forward to your submissions and to a great meeting in March! Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions.
On behalf of the MWCA Board,
Dr. Luke Morgan, Chair; luke.morgan
Dr. Cindy Johanek, Conference Chair; cynthia.johanek