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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. <b>Proposals
 are due on August 16, 2019 by midnight.</b> If you teach/tutor writing or administer writing programs/centers in Michigan or the surrounding Great Lakes region, we invite you to attend. 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 ed institutions within Michigan under the planning 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"></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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