Mission statement

The LWC engages & empowers students.

We provide a safe learning environment where expressions of diversity are recognized and celebrated.

We provide access through the teaching of learning options for engagement with the curriculum, building metacognitive awareness, and empowering confident adaptation in a variety of learning situations.

We acknowledge Native Peoples’ survivance, their care for the land in the past, present, and future, as well as our responsibility to support Native students.

We apply the core values of Guilford College.

The Learning and Writing Center empowers students to engage in the personal and intellectual transformation essential to the Guilford experience. As the campus writing center, the LWC offers consultations with professional tutors and Writing Fellows. The center also supports students’ learning through academic coaching, course-specific tutoring, Learning Lab classes, and workshops on a variety of subjects.

Diversity In our work with students, we recognize that each student brings intersecting aspects of identity (race, social class, gender, language, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, and ability) and experiences to every learning situation. We acknowledge the intersectionality and complexities that comprise each student. We are committed to providing a safe learning environment where expressions of diversity are recognized and celebrated, and where every student knows they belong.

Equity We embrace Guilford’s commitment to diversity and equality, honoring all ways of knowing, learning, and communicating. We engage with all student languages and embrace the connection between their language and ways of knowing. While we regard all linguistic expressions of culture as assets, we recognize the ways that language has been an instrument of oppression. Our commitment to anti-racism emphasizes linguistic justice in an effort to dismantle racism and oppression experienced by Black and multilingual members of the community. 

Accessibility The practice of equity in education requires equal access to learning spaces, the curriculum, and support services for all students. Therefore, in LWC spaces and services, we utilize the principles of Universal Design for Learning to engage students in the “what”, “why”, and “how” of learning. In individual/group sessions, classes, and workshops LWC staff provide learning options that support students’ engagement with the curriculum, build their metacognitive awareness, and empower them to adapt confidently to a variety of learning situations.

Acknowledgment Our commitment to equity also requires recognition of our interconnectedness as human beings and the value of generational knowledge, acknowledging that Guilford College — like all institutes of higher education in the United States — sits on Native land. In our case, it is land previously cared for and claimed, at various times, by the Keyauwee, Saura, and Saponi Peoples, some of whom, such as the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, maintain a strong presence in the area, caring for it still. It is important to acknowledge these Peoples’ survivance, and their care for the land in the past, the present and the future, as well as our responsibility to support Native students.

Values This mission unifies our efforts with our purpose as we apply the core values of Guilford College to “advance inclusive excellence”, “affirming and emphasizing the identity and experiences of groups that have been historically underrepresented in higher education”, and supporting a “transformative, practical, and excellent liberal arts education” for all students.