The Program: Program News

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Program News Archive

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Stories from years past:

• Program Receives Prestigious Grant

• New Writing Center on Busch

• Dialogues@RU Gets Grant

• New Fellows for Research in the Disciplines

• Win Cash in Spelling/Grammar Contest

• Grammar Workshops Offered

• New 201 Opportunity with Web Authoring

• ALERT!! Using the New Humanities Reader CD-ROM in RUCS Labs

• Students Can Now Take Expos Online

• Exciting Opportunity for Instructors: Research in the Disciplines Fellows Program

• Welcome to New Assistant Directors

• Exciting New 201 Option for Fall 2001

• New Option for Students who Received the TF Grade in 355:102 or 355:201. If you received a TF for your 201 course you need to read this news.

• 102 becomes 201. Learn about what difference this course change will make to you.

• Contest to find the most errors in The New Humanities Reader. Winner receives a $100 gift certificate from the Rutgers University Bookstore and the 4th edition of The American Heritage Dictionary, (a $75 value). See related story on The New Humanities Reader.

• Writing Program Awarded Educational Grants Worth $15,000 to improve wp.rutgers.edu and newtoru.rutgers.edu and to track the use and effectiveness of its online resources.

• NJ Philanthropist Endows the College Avenue Writing Center, allowing for much needed increases in tutor salary, expanded hours and services, and a move towards online tutoring.

• This fall saw the arrival of a New Reader in 101. The New Humanities Reader, edited by the Writing Program's own Richard E. Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer, "includes challenging essays by writers from a wide range of disciplines and it asks students to write essays that work with more than one reading at a time."

• The Writing Program launched its New Web Site in the Fall of 2000. Find out about the people who put this site together as well as the rationale behind its focus on student learning.

• New Courses and Certificate Programs in Business and Technical Writing will provide students with new learning and new career opportunities.

• The Writing Program is always proud of its excellent instructors and staff. Learn about the Awards, Professional Activities, New Faces, and Transitions in the Writing Program.

• Add/Drop Dates for Writing Program courses extend from January 16th - January 24th.