Pluma: Spanish Writing Center - Continuation

Grant Details

Amount: 3000.00

Project Start Date: 01/10/05

Status: Archived

Project Type:
Campus Based

Languages: Spanish

Project Level:
All - All Levels

Project Skills:
Writing

Institutions Involved:
Brown University

Primary Contact:
Beth Bauer (Beth_Bauer@Brown.edu)

Department of Hispanic Studies, Box 1982
Brown University
Providence , RI 02912
Phone: (401) 863-3772

Pluma, the Spanish Writing Center at Brown University, was established last year with a campus-based grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning. It has been operational since January, 2004. For it we have created a web site with resource links and an online appointment system. Each semester the Center has employed three graduate students who have seen hundreds of undergraduates seeking assistance with course papers for Hispanic Studies literature and culture courses. We have used all of the original funding to fund the first year of operation, and request an additional 3,000 to hire two graduate consultants for the spring of 2005. This spring we will explore the transition to a model whereby we would train undergraduate consultants who are native speakers of Spanish, to be paid from the Hispanic Studies department budget for undergraduate assistants.