CSTW Open House

President Gee with several members of the CSTW staff, Dean Roberts, and CSTW Director, Dickie Selfe (fourth from right).

"The written word," said President E. Gordon Gee at the Open House held by the Center for the Study of Teaching and Writing (CSTW) on Wednesday, January 24, "is that common commerce of civility," providing us with "the opportunity to make an enormous difference in our lives and the lives of others." With these words, the President celebrated the achievements of the center with over 50 students, faculty, staff, and friends of the College. In the President's words, "There is nothing more important for us than to communicate, to enable and empower people to communicate with each other," and the center's impressive list of programs bears this out. The CSTW arranges for internships with over 100 partnering organizations, conducts over 800 tutorials a quarter for clients from first-quarter freshmen to postdoctoral faculty, and provides support services for technology in the classroom through its Student Technology Consultant Program. Through its outreach programs, it expands the borders of the university across the community and the state. Its Writing Across the Curriculum program works to bring writing into the classroom in over 60 departments across the university.

At the event, Dean John Roberts recognized several donors for significant contributions to the work of the Center for the Study of the Teaching and Writing, and presented Susan Bonnell with the official notice of the Susan J. Bonnell Endowment Fund, which provides valuable program support to the center, including the fostering of CSTW's literacy work with students at Columbus Africentric Elementary School.