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Lifelong Learning Staff Profile

Elizabeth Priest
Coordinator, Language Arts Center Phone: (336) 750-2185 prieste@wssu.edu University College & Lifelong Learning Hauser Building, Suite 103C 601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Winston-Salem, NC 27110
Background
• Joined Winston-Salem State University in 1998 as an instructor of composition and world literature in the English and Foreign Languages Department • Master of Science in Communications from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Position Responsibilities
• Writing Center Coordinator and instructor of Freshman Composition, World Literature, and Liberal Learning courses
Philosophy
Elizabeth S. Priest is dedicated to helping students Write Right, Write Well, and Write to Success. As Coordinator of the Writing Center at Winston-Salem State University, where she is a perennial instructor of Freshman Composition, Elizabeth S. Priest lives her life enlightened by the guiding principles of “The Thesis,” the heartbeat, soul, and driving force that sustains a paper from beginning to end. Her life’s thesis is a commitment to clarity, steadiness of spirit, and patient dedication. She nurtures, nudges, and encourages students to find the foundational thesis that informs their writing and supports their own lives.