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Our Mission
Our mission is to create a space and foster an environment where students, regardless of their race, class, gender expression, sexual orientation, ability, and/or religious/personal beliefs, are able to collaborate with one another in order to find and develop their voices as writers.
Our Vision
To be a resource that creates and maintains a growth mindset culture around the importance of writing, and to build upon the strengths of students as writers so they can be successful in their future endeavors.
Beliefs & Values From Mentors
"The writing center has enhanced my passion for helping others and broadened my views. I believe it is important to be emotionally intelligent to be able to help others or direct them toward other sources of help and also keep in mind my own emotional state and well-being. One of the biggest values I gained from the writing center is also the importance of validation and letting others know that they are doing a good job and it is not our intention to fix them or their writing."
"As a mentor I know now that mentoring someone isn't just helping them understand their writing, it is to help them improve as a writer. I thought that the writing center helped you revise, but it is more than that. We encourage and help writers to be comfortable with their writing."
"I believe that the writing center is more than a place to get help on homework and essays, it's also a place where kids learn on their own. I really like that students have the writing center available to them since students learn at their own paces, and we're there for everybody."
"Now that I'm a mentor, some of the values and beliefs that the Writing center consists of is being positive, while also still being helpful. The Writing Center is aimed to create a safe space for anyone that attends."
"To help and develop stronger writers at Solorio and to meet with writers in order to create new relationships between the mentor and student. The values of the Writing Center are being able to show resourcefulness and being available to persevere academically through writing with students."
"I think the writing center can help a lot of students, even though sometimes it may be awkward for students to reach out. I know more about all the behind the scenes work now and really understand the effort put in. I think there's still room to improve, for example when we have different students we should try different ways to get our message across because not everyone will understand the same way. Overall, I think we're pretty motivated to get more people to come."