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Macomb Community College recognizes the value of a Writing Center that reflects its community's need for strong writing.  This site serves the Faculty Advisory Board's work as it does the following:

1. • Plans the Writing Center
   

2. This site records the Faculty Advisory Board's planning for a Writing Center that reflects the needs of the larger Macomb community.  The FAB is designing a center that serves local realities, reflects established scholarship and educational practice, but also furthers the mission of a college that is already embedded within the community.
   

1. • Supports Grant Applications
   

2. By providing information about the center's aims, audiences, strategies, and tactics, this site serves the funding activity of the Grants Office.
   

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2. Macomb Community College: vision and mission statements
   

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4. Vision
   

5. Macomb will continue to be a leading edge community college and the community's preferred choice for lifelong learning, cultural enrichment, and community development opportunities.
   

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8. Mission
   

9. As a publicly funded and community-based institution of higher education, Macomb Community College provides a comprehensive program of high-quality educational, enrichment, and economic development experiences designed to promote individual growth and social improvement.
   

10. Macomb strives to achieve the following with regard to the three strands of its mission statement:
    

11. Education:
    Continue to provide a learning environment that promotes program completion, graduation and success after graduation, whether in employment or further higher education
    

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13. Enrichment:
    

14. Provide exposure to the arts through the expansion of artistic and cultural programs at both the South and Center campuses
    

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16. Economic Development:
    

17. Increase training capacity in critical occupations and growth sectors in the southeast Michigan region to promote workforce and economic development
    

1. Vision/Mission for the Writing Center
   

Key Terms for Mission Statement

A. Audience for the Writing Center

1. 1.Reading
   

2. 2.ESL
   

3. 3.Traditional student
   

4. 4.Community
   

1. a.High School
   

2. b.MISD
   

3. c.general
   

5. 5.Special Needs
   

1. a.hearing
   

2. b.vision
   

3. c.autism spectrum
   

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2. B.Aim: to serve the larger community’s needs for
   

1. 1.Multi-literacy
   

1. a.conventional writing
   

2. b.digital
   

3. c.presentation (visual argument)
   

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100. C.Methods
     

1. 1.individual
   

2. 2.group
   

3. 3.online
   

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other terms from grant application: high risk; student success; literacy; employment; job training???;

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2. The Writing Center strengthens communication within Macomb County by providing expert advice on the thinking, planning, and writing of academic and professional documents. The center's primary audience is the students and faculty at Macomb Community College. In recognition of the large social contexts that shape writing at the college, the writing center serves as  vehicle for bridging the gap between high school writing curricula and college curricula. Thus, the secondary audience is the high school students who seek expert advice on their academic work, but it extends to collaborations with Macomb's high schools. 
   

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