What I’ve Been Up To

In 2026:

Still leading PACE; still leading APR; still managing strategic planning. But now, another big change is on the horizon: MSU is beginning general education reform. I’m co-chairing the assessment committee for that process and have been facilitating workshops and working with the other committees to shepherd through proposals in our design process. It’s been a fantastic experience and has given me so much insight into how our concerns, aspirations, and expertise all come together to add color and complexity to rethinking our curriculum.

In 2025:

This show went on the road! In Fall 0f 2025, I delivered the keynote address to this year’s International Writing Center Association conference. And prior to that, I had my traveling shoes on too — well, I helped more units at Michigan State University that weren’t just in my home college.  This year, I facilitated the strategic planning processes for MSU’s Office of Institutional Research, Office of the Registrar, and Office of Assessment, Accreditation, Curriculum, and Compliance (all of which are located in our Provost’s Office). Additionally, I facilitated strategic planning for the Faculty Development wing of our College of Human Medicine. The more I’m able to work across contexts and campus spaces, the more exciting it becomes to see the big picture of how all our work fits together.

In 2024:

With the College’s strategic plan complete, I turned my attention to working with each of the units in my college on developing unit-level strategic plans, complete with assessment questions and continuous improvement planning. The process dovetails with APR and has been terrific in connecting our college’s thinking across strategic spaces.

In 2023:

I began my role as Director of Strategic Planning, Assessment, and Accessibility for the College of Arts and Letters at MSU. The big lift in year 1? Creating our College’s strategic plan. I also continued writing and publishing; you can check my CV for more details there. While the strategic plan percolated, I took over Academic Program Review; MSU’s process is administrated centrally but is carried out at the college and unit levels. I now oversee how that process unfolds within my college. Last but not least, I became co-chair of PACE (Promoting an Assessment Culture of Equity) — it’s MSU’s branch of the Higher Learning Commission’s Assessment Academy and has been an amazing opportunity to connect with assessment experts across campus.

In 2022:

  • Writing, writing, writing! And some editing. I had several articles come out in 2022, including one I’m particularly proud of over at Praxis.
  • Strategic Planning. I’ve had a really fantastic experience serving on Michigan State University’s College of Arts and Letters Appreciative Inquiry Core Team doing strategic planning for the college. I’ve learned so much and have been so inspired by this good work. I could see myself moving in this direction, career-wise, in the future. The ethos and values of WC work really are helpful for strategizing bigger picture initiatives.
  • Speaking gigs. The pandemic did not slow down the speaking gig train! I’ve given about ten talks in the past year at various institutions across the country (some virtually, some in person) to talk about student success, administration, and access/anti-ableism. I also gave a keynote at the 2022 SWCA Conference!
  • University Service. Still serving as chair of the College of Arts and Letters’ College Undergraduate Committee, and still facilitating the Tier II Faculty Learning Group. Keeping busy!

In 2021:

  • The Writing Center at MSU began hosting our spring speaker series, Writing Centers and Access. The series, featuring disability scholars Jay Dolmage, Margaret Price, Julie Avril Minich, Stephanie Kerschbaum, and Christina Cedillo, was a tremendous success so far! Each event has had over two hundred attendees (all virtual, of course). We managed to secure funding to ensure ASL translators and live captioning at all events, and the videos of previous events are all available on the MSU Writing Center’s YouTube page right now. We’re very excited about the success of the series, and also about sharing these videos!
  • The MSU WC’s Accessibility Committee had a banner year full of huge projects, including but not limited to: Developing a First Year Writing pilot workshop on accessible composing and disability justice, developing the beginnings of what we’re calling The Accessible Composing Archive, developing multiple types of workshops and programs to present to our campus colleagues and beyond centering accessibility and disability justice in writing practices and writing centers, and following up on the several dozen requests we’ve received from other writing center folks this year to give talks or provide resources to their institutions on the work we’re doing!
  • Teaching! Writing! Publishing! The hustle that never ends. This semester, I’m teaching our Writing Center’s theory and training course while also working on a few different articles that have been accepted for publication. All my current writing is focused on disability justice in writing center work, and it feels good to have that work taking root / growing.
  • Speaking Gigs and Consulting: In Spring 2021 alone, I’ve given five requested guest lectures at various institutions, including Transylvania University, City University of New York, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, and John Carrol University on disability justice and writing center work. Want me to come visit your staff? Head over to my Consultation page!
  • Other Fun Stuff: I’m currently chairing MSU’s CAL College Undergraduate Council, developing a Tier II Assessment plan to submit for review at MSU, reviving the MSU WC’s Community Composing Project website, serving on IWCA’s Accessibility and Social Justice Committees, serving on the Online Writing Center Association’s Accessibility Committee, and serving on the MSU Teaching and Learning and Student Success Conference’s planning committee. Busy, busy, busy…