Rate My Professor Kelli Custer

Dr. Custer's dedication to teaching excellence earned her the Board of Regents System-Wide Teaching Award in the Connecticut State Universities category for 2018-19. She led a three-year, $174,331 grant from the Davis Educational Foundation awarded in 2014 to develop, implement, and assess WCSU's First Year Experience program, integrating it into the general education framework to ease first-year student transitions. Her professional contributions include hosting the Northeast Writing Center Association conference at WCSU, anticipating 275 attendees from across the Northeast. Dr. Custer presented “The Development of Self-Efficacy in Writing Center Tutors” at the 2019 International Writing Center Association/National Council of Peer Tutors in Writing Annual Conference. Her scholarship features the article “To Tell Afterward: The Stories of Five Scholars in Composition-Rhetoric.” Through her leadership, the Writing Center remains a vital campus resource, promoting literacy and building writer confidence among students.