The Writing Program has an active student body involved in a wide variety of extracurricular activities, all of which offer important leadership opportunities for qualified and interested students. These duties are not only a labor of love for our students, but they also provide valuable pre-professional experience:?

• We are a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the National Honor Society of English, and elect officers each year. Sigma Tau Delta provides a strong voice for students, organizing social and cultural activities and working closely with the chair and other faculty in setting the direction of the department. We select deserving students to serve in a number of on-campus internships and engaged learning opportunities. As on-campus interns, students may work with social media as editors and writers, or as tutors for international students in our English for Academic Purposes Program. We also help students develop off-campus internships and engaged learning experiences in their home communities.?

• Students take leadership positions planning and organizing various events that feature visiting writers, student readings, career fairs and service-learning projects.?

• The Writing Center is staffed by students, many of them English and Writing majors. Work in the Writing Center gives students with an interest in writing and teaching valuable experience.?

• We work closely with public schools in the neighborhood, and encourage our students to offer their time in a wide variety of capacities, including as tutors, readers and mentors.

Graduates enter some of the most interesting careers open to writers, from book and magazine editors and writers to "information architects" on the Web.