The Outreach & Marketing team has the foundational goal of promoting the Writing Center and the services it offers to the DePaul community. Team members can expect to participate in collaborative work in meetings, initiatives for in-person and digital marketing, and support of our University partners.
Team Members
Team members utilize their diverse skill sets to contribute to the Outreach & Marketing team and special projects. Team members are provided with exciting opportunities to collaborate, develop professionally, and contribute to conversations about writing at DePaul.
The team has a limited number of spots for members based on the scope of the quarter’s goals and initiatives. Writing Center tutors apply to join a team before the start of each quarter.
So that they may devote their time to learning about the Writing Center and working as peer writing tutors, tutors cannot join a team their first quarter of employment. New tutors, however, are encouraged to participate in Outreach & Marketing events to help them learn more about the team and to become more involved in Writing Center initiatives.
Mission
The Outreach & Marketing Team works to promote the Writing Center and the collaborative work of peer tutoring to the DePaul community, including current students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
In putting forward the Writing Center’s core beliefs, practices, and values, Outreach collaborates with students, staff, instructors, alumni, offices, and departments at DePaul and occasionally with external community organizations (I want to add something to this sentence but I'm not sure what). We partner with these entities to promote writing and tutoring, and collaborate with them to assess their needs and potentially develop programs and resources.
Outreach allows the Writing Center to bring its message about the importance of written communication and the value of peer tutoring outside our walls and to often be the face of the Writing Center in the broader university community.
Team Works
Outreach is always celebrating something by tabling and participating in events! We form partnerships at the University, advocating for writers and writing and the work done by writing centers. Our initiatives promote writing at DePaul and we have an array of different types of events throughout the academic year, ranging from Banned Books Week and National Day on Writing, to our Book Swaps each quarter, and a focus on tutor recruitment in Spring. You’ll often find us tabling throughout the University, talking about the Writing Center to DePaul community members and looking for more awesome students to join our staff!
Joining the Team
If you join the Outreach & Marketing team, you can learn all about promotion, marketing, Writing Center recruitment, and how to make the most out of writing-related events! There are opportunities for public speaking and doing Writing Center work outside of the Writing Center through tabling and in-class presentations. There will also be opportunities for digital marketing through social media and other communications across platforms. You will get to help plan events like the ones listed above and more!
If you’d like to learn more about Outreach, please talk to the Outreach and Marketing Coordinator or the Outreach Student Manager.