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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Apologies for cross-posting. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This
 is a reminder about Corridors: The Great Lakes Writing and Rhetoric 
Conference, a free regional conference that will be held on Saturday, 
September 
28 on the campus of Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. If you live in Michigan or the surrounding Great Lakes states, we welcome you to attend. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Proposals
 are due in about six weeks on August 16, 2019. To learn 
more about the conference, view the CFP, register to attend, and/or 
submit a proposal, please visit our conference website here: <a href="https://sites.google.com/oakland.edu/corridors-greatlakes-2019/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/oakland.edu/corridors-greatlakes-2019/home</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Corridors:
 The Great Lakes Writing and Rhetoric Conference rotates annually among 
higher education institutions within Michigan under the auspices of the 
Michigan Writing Program Administrators Affiliate (MI-WPA). If you 
administer or teach/tutor in a writing program or writing center in 
Michigan, please consider joining the Michigan WPA Affiliate by filling 
out this brief <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdfbBaBwqWQnq_jvBE9stcnLiOpEk1QZcs9HP9iE0AJM-GFaw/viewform" target="_blank">membership form</a>. 
<font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>There is no cost to join, and after you complete the form, we will add you to our listserv and organization’s
 roster, which will help you connect with a network of WPAs
 across the state interested in the same questions, challenges, and 
opportunities you are. (Many thanks to those who have already joined!)</span></span></font>

</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We hope to see you in September!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Megan Schoen</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Director of First-Year Writing <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oakland University</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Chair-Elect, MI-WPA</div>

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