Ready to Launch?: Preparing Tutors for Next Steps

The central question of this panel is: What responsibility do writing center administrators have for preparing tutors for their post-writing center careers and lives and what would such preparation look like? In recent years, writing center scholarship has touched on this issue (see Welsch 2008; Whalen 2009; Dinitz & Kiedaisch, 2009; Hughes, et al. 2010); this panel is extension of this scholarship by different administrators at three different universities. Our panel discusses the difficulties and successes we’ve had in shaping and in assessing professional/career development for our staffs based on the models and suggestions in the writing center literature