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The UP Writing Center is Open!

September 2, 2025

The UP Writing Center is an amazing peer-tutoring resource that can support student writers from any discipline. Starting September 2, students can book appointments through the Learning Commons scheduler or visit during drop-in hours. Our Writing Assistant Co-Pilots represent an array of majors from all five UP colleges and can assist writers at all levels, and at any stage of the process. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-09-01, 2025-09-15, Academics, Issues Tagged With: Writing Center

NOW OPEN: The UP Writing Center

September 13, 2024

The UP Writing Center is a terrific peer-tutoring resource that can support student writers from any discipline and is open for the Fall 2024 semester. Students can meet their Writing Assistant in person in the Learning Commons (BC 163) or online. We count on faculty to get the word out to students about this valuable resource, so please consider encouraging your students to seek us out. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-09-16, Issues Tagged With: Learning Commons, Writing Center

The Writing Center Welcomes Your Students! 

October 15, 2022

The UP Writing Center—a terrific peer-tutoring resource that can support student writers from any discipline—is open. Students can meet their Writing Assistant in person in the Learning Commons (BC 163) or online (via Zoom). We count on faculty to get the word out to students about this valuable resource, so please consider encouraging your students […]

Filed Under: 10-17-2022 Tagged With: Writing Center

The Writing Center Will Be Back in Business This Fall!

September 5, 2022

The UP Writing Center—an awesome peer-tutoring resource that can help student writers from any discipline—is open for the semester. We count on faculty to get the word out to students about this valuable resource, so please consider encouraging your students to seek us out. Students can meet their Writing Assistant in person in the Learning Commons (BC 163) […]

Filed Under: 09-06-2022 Tagged With: Writing Center

Writing Assistance Available for Summer Classes

May 14, 2021

Summer faculty who assign writing: the virtual Writing Center is open and ready to help your students with their papers-in-process. Rather than using our online scheduler, in the summer, students can email writing@up.edu to book appointments, which will be held on Zoom. Please visit the Writing Center website for more information and for online writing resources, […]

Filed Under: 05-17-2021, 05-24-2021, Academics, Campus Services, Writing Center Tagged With: Molly Hiro, Writing Center

Faculty: Please Promote the Writing Center in Your Classes!

January 22, 2021

The Writing Center is gearing up for another virtual semester of helping student writers at any stage of the writing process, at any level, and in any discipline, according to director Molly Hiro, English. The center’s 23 writing assistants (WAs) held hundreds of Zoom appointments last fall, and are ready to field that many more […]

Filed Under: 01-25-2021, 02-01-2021, 02-08-2021, Academics, Campus Services, Writing Center Tagged With: Molly Hiro, Writing Center

Writing Center Ready to Help Writers Online This Fall

August 28, 2020

Student typing on laptop

After a successful test run in the spring, the Writing Center is gearing up for a fully remote fall, and the center is counting on UP faculty to get the word out that writing assistants (WAs) are ready and able to help UP writers throughout the term. WAs can help writers from all disciplines, at […]

Filed Under: 08-17-2020, 08-24-2020, 08-31-2020, Writing Center Tagged With: Molly Hiro, Writing Center

Virtual Writing Assistance Available All Summer

May 29, 2020

While the in-person Writing Center will remain closed until further notice, virtual writing assistance is available for all students taking courses at UP this summer. If you’re teaching a summer course, especially one involving writing, will you let your students know about this service? One-on-one sessions with our experienced writing assistants will happen via video, […]

Filed Under: 05-18-2020, 05-25-2020, 06-01-2020, Academics, Campus Services Tagged With: Molly Hiro, Writing Center

UP Writing Center and Integrated Writing Program: At Your Service

January 17, 2020

The Integrated Writing Program and the Writing Center are gearing up to serve the UP community in spring 2020. The Writing Center (BC 163) is a completely free resource, staffed with trained writing assistants who can help students at all levels, from all disciplines, at all stages of the writing process. The center opens for the spring […]

Filed Under: 01-13-2020, 01-20-2020, Academics, Campus Services, Writing Center Tagged With: Molly Hiro, Writing Center

UP Writing Center and Writing Program At Your Service

August 23, 2019

The Writing Center and Writing Program are gearing up to serve the UP community in fall 2019, according to Molly Hiro, English. The Writing Center (in the Learning Commons, BC 163) is a completely free resource, staffed with trained Writing Assistants who can help students at all levels, from all disciplines, at all stages of the writing process. […]

Filed Under: 08-26-2019, 09-03-2019, Academics, Campus Services, English Tagged With: Molly Hiro, Writing Center

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Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

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Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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