Our Little Secret : A History of Writing Centers, Pre- To Post-Open Admissions

This history of writing centers, and their precursor the writing lab, teases apart the differences between writing centers identified with methods to empower critical thinking and writing centers identified as a site for discursive regulation. Boquet asks compelling questions about the future of writing centers and the need for further critically intellectual investigation into the relationship between writing center work and the teaching of writing and vice versa

Hard Work in the Big Easy

Stripping floors and tearing down walls are not skills listed in the job description for a Fairfield University professor. But Dr. Beth Boquet (CAS), a native of southeast Louisana, was recently a part of a Fairfield University contingent of 38 students, four faculty and two staff members who embarked on an eye-opening seven day journey to New Orleans, La., an area struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina. Here is one group\u27s story