Co-presented a table talk session at the Student Success in First-Year Composition Conference at Georgia Southern University

1. Addressing Diversity
through Collaboration:
Perspectives from a
Library and Writing Center

2. Ann
Kardos
Reference
Librarian
Savannah
College of Art
and Design
Savannah, GA
Jennifer
Peper
Director of the
Writing Center
A presentation for the 2009 Student Success in First-Year Composition Conference

3. Students by Degree
(Writing Center Users)

4. Total Undergraduates: 690
Total Graduates: 502

5. GRDS
FILM
ARCH
ANIM
/ INDS
Top 5 Majors:
1) Graphic Design (136 students)
2) Film and Television (88 students)
3) Architecture (79 students)
4) (tie) Animation (76 students)
4) (tie) Interior Design (76 students)
(Writing Center Users)

6. Top 5 Countries Represented:
1) South Korea (74 students)
2) Taiwan (71 students)
3) China (35 students)
4) India (20 students)
5) Japan (15 students)
(Writing Center Users)

7. Graduate Workshops First Year Experience
• 11 workshops • 100 sections
Library and
Writing Center
Collaboration
Class Instruction Cross Department Referrals
• 10 classes • approximately 25-50 students each
• 2 composition quarter through consultations
• direct students to department
• 7 art history
website in class instruction
• 1 fashion
sessions

8. Foundation Courses (predominantly first year students)
English: 25 classes
Speech: 37 classes
Art History: 12 classes
Approximately 70% of all BI sessions throughout the year are for
first year students in foundations courses.