For more information about Colleges of the Arts and Sciences Community Partnerships, please contact:
Mindy Wright, PhD
Director
114F University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1319
Tel: (614) 688-5557 Fax: (614) 247-7498
wright.7@osu.edu
Dr. Mindy Wright has a long history at the university, beginning in the Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Program in the Department of English. She began teaching in the Writing Workshop in 1982, became assistant director in 1987, and served as director from 1987-2007. In that work, she developed curriculum (including two service-learning partnerships with local schools), trained teachers, conducted programmatic research assessment, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses.
Her work with outreach is almost as long. In 1985, she began work with education outreach programs such as the Board of Regents’ Early English Composition Assessment Program. 2001-2002, she was the interim director of Outreach for the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, where she began some of their long-standing outreach partnerships. 2002-2006, she was a consultant in the University Outreach and Engagement Office and during that time served on national planning committees for the Outreach Scholarship Conference. She is a member of the 2002 LeadershipColumbus class. On campus, she serves as a member of the Literacy Studies Executive Committee, the Service Learning Initiative Advisory Committee, ASC Middle Childhood Education Advisory Committee, Metro School Partnership Board, Economic Access Roundtable. Off campus she serves on committees for Children’s Hunger Alliance, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Metropolitan Club.
Wright is considered a pioneer in service-learning in the university. She developed and taught three multi-sectioned writing/service-learning courses, one of which is a multi-department project that works with a community literacy program to tutor recent immigrants in reading and writing English. She was one of the finalists for the 2008 Ohio Campus Compact David Hoch Award.
Wright received her BA in English and mathematics from Wittenberg University. She received her MA in English from Brown University and her PhD in English (Rhetoric and Composition Studies) from The Ohio State University.
