Information for Faculty

Classroom Presentations

Many of the thousands of students who come to the Writing Center each year hear about us through our classroom presentations, and we'd like to invite you to schedule one for your course. Presentations can be tailored to fit your needs and the needs of your students. They can be as short as ten minutes, providing information about the Writing Center's location, hours, and philosophy, or they can be extended to include demonstration tutorials or workshops on revision led by a group of tutors.

If you are a faculty member at the University at Albany and would like to schedule a presentation in your course, please call us at 442-4061. As we have a limited number of spaces in our presentation schedule, we ask that you contact us no later than October 9 for presentations during the fall semester.

Writing & Teaching Assistance for Faculty

The Writing Center assists both students and faculty with academic writing across the disciplines. We provide assistance for writers producing essays for graduate school admissions, resumes, theses, dissertations and creative writing. In addition to the presentations and tutorials that comprise the bulk of our work, the Writing Center staff offers expertise to faculty who would like opportunities to talk about teaching writing courses and/or designing writing assignments for classes.

If you would like to talk with Writing Center staff about your own writing or how to better implement writing instruction in the classes you teach, please contact us at 518-442-4061.

As Writing Center tutors engage the whole writer and his/her writing process (i.e., we do not proofread or simply correct grammatical errors), we ask that all faculty familiarize themselves and their students with our process-centered philosophy of writing before making an appointment or referring their students to us.