The Coe College Writing Center Fellowship
First of all, what is the Writing Center? To put it as simply as possible, the Writing Center is a community of students on campus dedicated to helping students become better writers. The center currently employs about 65 consultants, first through fourth year students, and is at a great location on campus. To find out more about the excitement surrounding the Writing Center, please visit the Coe Writing Center's web page.
Wondering what this consultant stuff is really about? Not sure if you are the consultant type? If you like to write and enjoy a good conversation, you have the perfect beginnings of an excellent consultant. Why might you want to work in this place? First of all, you get paid. Secondly, if you have to have an on-campus job, you might as well do something fun, and we (the esteemed student consultants of the Writing Center) guarantee this is a fun job. There are some great fringe benefits, like accidentally becoming a better writer yourself while helping others. And did we mention the Writing Center makes the best coffee on campus?
Now that you're all fired up to apply, let's get to the details. The Writing Center Fellowship is given in the amount of $1,000 per year for four years, requiring the student to be a working consultant for three of those four years. A one year break is given in order to encourage students to take part in off-campus adventures, such as internships or study abroad programs. However, students who do choose to work a fourth year will receive an additional $1,000, bumping the fellowship up to $2,000 for that year.
Student consultants are required to work 5 hours per week, with weekly staff meetings counting towards one hour of that total. In addition, consultants are enrolled for the first four semesters of employment in a 0.3 credit training course--Topics in Composition--with those weekly meetings counting for another hour of the total. (Note: at Coe, a typical full semester course that meets for 150 minutes per week counts as 1.0 credits. Topics in Composition meets for one-third of that time and gets one-third of those credits).
For incoming first year students, a job in the Writing Center is available through a process which includes a writing exercise (taken on campus at a given time in the spring) and an interview with current Writing Center faculty and staff. This allows us a chance to get to know you, and allows you to find out what you might be getting yourself into.
If you would like more information on the Writing Center Fellowship, or have any questions about the Writing Center, please contact WC Director Dr. Bob Marrs or contact the Coe Writing Center itself.
