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The 2011 MWCA Fall Ideas Exchange will be held at Saginaw Valley State University.

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The 2012 Fall Ideas Exchange will be held at Michigan State University on Saturday, October 27, 2012! Watch for our link!

Annual Ideas Exchange

The Ideas Exchange is held every fall semester at a different institution each year. It is a day-long event featuring an opening session and welcome, concurrent sessions on various general topics of interest, lunch, a board meeting, and an afternoon closing session and social gathering. The MWCA strives to keep registration fees minimal and to maintain a tutor focus in which tutors vastly outnumber directors and administrators in attendance and as presenters.

Following is a history of MWCA Meetings and Ideas Exchanges. The MWCA was officially born on August 10, 1995, at Western Michigan University. This same year, the term “Ideas Exchange” was adopted to describe our annual gatherings. The University of Michigan—Flint hosted our first Ideas Exchange in October 1995.

History of Michigan Writing Centers Association Meetings and Ideas Exchanges
Year
Host
# in Attendance
October 1994 Michigan Council of Teachers of English
Special Interest Group Meeting, Lansing, MI
33
February 1995 Michigan Writing Centers Open House: An
Introduction to the MSU Writing Center,
Michigan State University
23
April 1995 Spring Conference on the English Language Arts
(a.k.a. “Bright Ideas” Conference),
Michigan State University
25
June 1995 Michigan Writing Centers Project Summer
Invitational Institute,
Michigan State University
16
August 1995 MWCA Steering Committee Organizational Meeting,
Western Michigan University
15
October 1995 Ideas Exchange, University of Michigan—Flint
80
March 1996

Host (with MSU) of East Central Writing Centers
Association Conference,
Michigan State University
*
October 1996 Ideas Exchange, Macomb Community College
*
October 1997 Ideas Exchange, Northwestern Michigan University
*
November 1998 Ideas Exchange, Saginaw Valley State University
90
November 1999 Ideas Exchange, Grand Valley State University
85
October 2000 Ideas Exchange, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
100
October 2001 Ideas Exchange, Central Michigan University
120
October 2002 Ideas Exchange, Michigan State University
110
October 2003 Ideas Exchange, University of Michigan—Flint
108
October 2004 Ideas Exchange, Lansing Community College
100
November 2005 Ideas Exchange, Grand Valley State University
100
October 2006 Ideas Exchange, Northwestern Michigan College
88

October
2007

Muskegon Community College
125
October
2008		 Madonna University
153
October 2009 Oakland University
142
October 2010 Lake Superior State University
95
October 2011 Saginaw Valley State University  
October 2012 Michigan State University
+


* Information not available
+ Denotes future conference site

The MWCA also holds its annual Board meeting during the Ideas Exchange. This is an open meeting to which all participants in the Ideas Exchange are encouraged to attend. Minutes from some previous meetings are available below in rich text format.

Minutes from 2003 Ideas Exchange at UM-Flint

Minutes from 2004 Ideas Exchange at LCC

Minutes from 2005 Ideas Exchange at GVSU

Minutes from 2006 Ideas Exchange at NMC

Minutes from 2007 Ideas Exchange at MCC

Minutes from 2008 Ideas Exchange at Madonna

Minutes from the 2009 Ideas Exchange at Oakland University

Minutes from the 2010 Ideas Exchange at Lake Superior State University
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