Writing Center director receives competitive research grant

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Julia Bleakney, director of the Writing Center in the Center for Writing Excellence, has been awarded an International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) research grant to complete an interview-based study of the mentoring experiences of new and experienced writing center professionals.

Bleakney, along with co-researcher Dagmar Scharold of the University of Houston-Downtown, are studying the impact of the IWCA’s Mentor Matching program that pairs new writing center directors with experienced directors. The study, tentatively titled, “The Guru Mentor vs Network-Based Mentoring: A Study of the Mentoring of Writing Center Professionals,” examines how the Mentor Matching program simultanously supports a one-to-one mentoring model and a networked mentoring model.