Floyd Dominique Pouncil

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Education
Michigan State University August 2018 - Present
Doctor of Philosophy; Writing, Rhetoric, and Culture

Michigan State University December 2020

Graduate Certificate; Teaching and Learning

Michigan State University May 2016

Master of Arts; Student Affairs Administration

University of Michigan- Flint May 2014

Bachelor of Arts; English

Academic and Professional Positions

Writing Center Coordinator
Writing Center, Integrated English Department, Lansing Community College
Lansing, MI
Writing Center Coordinator, January 2020-August 2021
Professional Tutor, September 2017-January 2019
● Led a comprehensive restructuring of the writing center as it moved units from the Learning
Commons to the Integrated English department including meeting with stakeholders from across
campus, researching and rolling out new scheduling technology, developing new policies and
procedures for the new unit, and working closely with new administrators over the writing center
as well as facilitating the transition for writing center employees
● Co-coordinated the Writing Center including managing, mentoring, training, designing, and
assessing tutoring practices of 25+ professional tutors and peer writing assistants
● Customized onboarding and ongoing training for professional tutors and writing assistants face to
face, online, and hybrid
● Led diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings for incoming Writing Assistants and Professional
Tutors designed to elicit critical interventions around delivery of accessible, equitable and
developmental practices
● Chaired the college-wide committee Soul Food Fridays dedicated to providing communal space
for Black and African American students, faculty, and staff as well as those who wish to support
their Black and African American colleagues

Writing Center Graduate Coordinator (Onboarding, Faculty Teaching Development, &

Campus Engagement)
Writing Center @ MSU, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Coordinator, August 2018 - January 2020
• Implemented onboarding for the 20+ new graduate students each year, including organizing,
designing, implementing, and assessing a comprehensive training mechanism for graduate
consultants each Fall and Spring semester that covers the writing center at MSU culture; writing
center pedagogy including online consulting, graduate consulting, and faculty clients; and
managing the multiple challenges that come with being a graduate student from diverse
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disciplines doing writing consulting

● Provided leadership on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives including developing
workshops, materials, collaborating with other units at MSU, and inviting guest speakers to
campus to discuss negative language ideology, implicit bias, and ways of providing support for
marginalized students and their language practices culminating in a year-long professional
development curriculum for the 70+ staff
● Coordinated, assessed, and updated the campus engagement program via partnerships with
several stakeholders through training and embedding a writing consultant into specific programs
that work with specific student populations
● Facilitated faculty teaching development workshops for graduate and undergraduate instructors
on teaching and writing topics like backwards design, scaffolding curricular assignments and
lessons, assessment via rubrics, and understanding diverse student populations
● Consulted weekly with Michigan State University faculty, graduate students & undergraduate
students (international and domestic), and community members in-person and online on any topic
involving writing, communication, and presentations including dissertations & theses, classroom
assignments, professional & personal statements, application materials, article manuscripts, and
grant proposals
● Sat on the Multimedia Writing Center committee that designed and implemented the MSU
Multimedia Writing Center including creating instructions for and troubleshooting the client
facing protocol for signing up online for appointments through YouCanBook.me

Lead Academic Specialist/Advisor

Office of Supportive Services – TRIO Student Support Services, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Lead Academic Specialist, May 2016 – August 2018
● Provided leadership in planning, designing, implementing, and assessing a comprehensive
advising/advocacy model to facilitate deliverance of service from TRIO SSS staff in accordance
with federal Department of Education guidelines and regulations for 600+ first generation students,
low income students, and students with disabilities
● Worked closely with campus partners such as the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities,
the First Year Writing Program, the Math Department, The Counseling & Psychiatric Center, the
Office of Financial Aid, and the Student Success Collaborative
● Maintained records towards annual federal grant review, including maintaining a system of record
keeping that was easily accessible for pulling accurate and timely data on student participants and
their progress through the program
● Managed all graduate school initiatives and advised students on graduate school and career
preparation through designing and executing workshops, escorting students to graduate preparation
conferences and fairs, designing & distributing information packets, sending email blasts, and
hosting guest speakers
● Researched and wrote TRIO federal grant proposals to ensure continued funding for office
initiatives, including designing a comprehensive undergraduate research program and updating the
existing TRIO SSS program
● Collaborated with TRIO SSS Coordinator to plan and execute the TRIO Summer Excel Program
for approximately 40 incoming 1st year students each summer
● Designed materials for dissemination of information to colleagues and campus partners, including
office procedural manuals, newsletters, fliers, and infographics
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Research & Design Graduate Practicum Intern

Learning Resources Center, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
August 2015 – December 2015
● Researched and designed an intervention plan for the Learning Resources Center towards
becoming a hub for various stakeholders within the organization who provided academic support
to students via gathering data from websites, collecting surveys, and conducting interviews before
compiling it into a comprehensive report used to hire new staff positions dedicated to better
supporting students at MSU

Assistant Community Director

Residence Education and Housing Services, Holden Hall, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
August 2014 – May 2016
● Supervised a staff of 8 Resident Assistants (RA) including overseeing their training and ongoing
professional development, duty shifts, community management, event planning and execution,
and student/work life balance to ensure the development of approximately 400 residents
● Presided over conduct hearings and prescribe sanctions according to university policy that
educate residents and hold them accountable
● Provided safety and security for the 2,400 students of Holden Hall and Wilson Hall through
week-long duty shifts by responding to crisis, mediating conflicts, and submitting incident reports
● Advised and mentored Holden Hall Government executive board and general assembly in their
efforts to disperse student funding and program for the hall

Select Projects & Research

Writing Center Usage, Race, and First Year Writing, The Writing Center @MSU;
Spring 2019-Fall 2019
Based upon data from the Neighborhood Student Success Collaborative, this project sought to
interrogate the impact of usage of the writing center on students’ First Year Writing grade point
average while accounting for race categories as delineated by MSU data on graduation rates of
students of color compared to their white counterparts. This research was conducted chiefly
through utilizing the statistical method of an analysis of covariance during the 2018-2019
academic year.

Graduate Assessment Project, EAD 889: Research and Assessment in Student Affairs, MSU
Neighborhoods and Sense of Belonging; Spring 2015
Situated within the non-cognitive variable of sense of belonging and its ties to learners’
emotional, motivational, and academic capabilities, this project utilized several quantitative
methods such as t-tests, multiple regression, and multivariate analyses of variance to assess the
relationship between student’s perceived support from campus resources within the MSU
Neighborhood model and their sense of belonging.

Office Consultation Project; EAD 875: Issues and Strategies in Student Affairs; College of
Communications, Arts, and Sciences (COMARTSCI); Fall 2015
Through the development of a needs assessment, benchmarking, collaborating with stakeholders
across campus, meeting with content area experts, and presenting final recommendations, this
project uncovered issues with the model that onboarded students who transferred into the
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COMARTSCI college after spending considerable time in other colleges (such as business or
engineering). We developed a digital apparatus as well as a comprehensive peer mentor program
as a recommendation towards rectifying COMARTSCI’s issues.

Teaching & Curriculum Development

Instructor, WRA 101: Writing as Inquiry, Michigan State University, Fall 2021

Graduate Teaching Assistant, WRA 891: Writing Program Administration: Research, Inquiry, and
Practice, Michigan State University, Fall 2020

Instructor, Writing Studio Pedagogy Training, Learning Commons-Writing Studio, Lansing Community
College, Spring 2020

Facilitator & Curriculum Designer, Language Statement Pedagogy Training, The Writing Center @
MSU, Michigan State University, Summer 2019, Fall 2019

Facilitator & Curriculum Designer, Graduate Writing Consultant Training, The Writing Center @
MSU, Michigan State University, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019

Graduate Teaching Assistant, WRA 395: Writing Center Theory and Practice, Michigan State
University, Spring 2019

Facilitator & Curriculum Designer, Strategies and Tools Across Fields: Teaching with Writing, The
Writing Center @ MSU, Michigan State University, Spring 2019

Facilitator, International Teacher Assistant Training, Michigan State University, Fall 2018

Instructor & Curriculum Designer, UGS/Undergraduate Seminar 110/101, Michigan State University;
Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018

Instructor & Curriculum Designer, TRIO Excel Summer Program Writing Course, Michigan State
University; Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017

Instructor, Resident Assistant Leadership Course, Residence Education and Housing Services, Michigan
State University, Spring 2016

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, UNV 100: Intergroup Dialogue, University of Michigan-Flint; Fall
2010-Spring 2014

Publications
Pouncil, F., Sanders, N., & Aguilar-Smith, S. (in press). “Departing for A Better World: Advancing
Language Justice Through Staff Professional Development”, The Peer Review.
Pouncil, F. & Sanders, N. (in press). “The Work Before: A Coalitional Alliance Heuristic to Move
Toward Black Futures in Technical Communication”, Technical Communication Quarterly.
Robinson, R., LeClair, S., & Pouncil, F. (2020). “Empowering the Process: Redefining Tutor Training
Towards Embodied Restorative Justice”, The Peer Review, 4(2).
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Pouncil, F., (2020). [Review of the book Black Perspectives in Writing Program Administration: From
the Margins to the Center, edited by S. Perryman-Clark & C. L. Craig]. Composition Studies, 48(1), 145-
148.

Presentations
Pouncil, F., “Social Justice Speaker Series: Positionality in the Center”, The Writing Center, Nevada
State College, (Scheduled October 2021)
Dillard, A. & Pouncil, F. “Know Better to Do Better: Generations Working Together at LCC”, All-
College Professional Activity Days, Lansing Community College, January 2021
Pouncil, F. “Effective Meetings: A Heuristic Approach”, Professional Development Workshop, The
Writing Center @ MSU, Michigan State University, October 2020
Haywood, C., Pouncil, F, & Sanders, N., “Black Feminism as Commonplace: A Social Justice
Orientation to Administration and Research”, Conference on College Composition & Communication,
March 2020 (Accepted but canceled due to COVID-19)
Pouncil, F., & Sanders, N., “Contested and Constructed: Mundane Documents, Students, and Strategies
for Emergence”, Two-Year College English Association Conference, March 2020 (Accepted but canceled
due to COVID-19)
Pouncil, F., & Sanders, N., “Becoming a Critical Interventionist: Language Ideology and Student Identity
Construction”, All-College Professional Activity Days, Lansing Community College, January 2020
Pouncil, F., “Student Identity Construction Through Language Ideology”, Learning Commons, Lansing
Community College, November, 2019
Pouncil, F., & Sanders, N., “Retention as Art: What Can Quantitative Methods Teach Us About
Retention, Writing Centers, and Institutional Partnerships?”, International Writing Center Association,
October 2019
Haywood, C., Pouncil, F, & Sanders, N., “Designing Inclusive Futures: Black Feminist Designs As
Ethical Practice in Administration, Pedagogy, and Research.”, Computers and Writing Conference, June
2019 (Reviewed by Wilson, N. at http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2019/07/18/session-c13-
designing-inclusive-futures-black-feminist-designs-as-ethical-practice-in-administration-pedagogy-and-
research/)
Ibarra, M., Pouncil, F., & Roman, L., “Laying the Foundation: Writing Centers and Student Affairs
Foundational Documents”, East Central Writing Center Association Conference, April 2019
Pouncil, F., & Wourman, J., “Communicating with Visuals Workshop”, Michigan State University
Writing Center, March 2019
Pouncil, F, & Sanders, N., “Towards Bridging the Retention Gap: A Multiple Regression Analysis of
Writing Center Use, Retention, and Persistence”, International Writing Center Association Collaborative,
March 2019
Brooker, J., F., Mangles, D., Pouncil, F., & Reglin, J., “Writing Center and Learning Commons
Join Forces: Chapter 1”, Michigan Writing Center Association Conference, October 2018
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Pouncil, F., “Institutional Partnerships that Foster Writing Center Anti-Racist Praxis: Getting Out of the
Way Through Building Coalitions”, International Writing Center Association Conference, October 2018
Pouncil, F., & Sargent, A., “Resume and Cover Letter Workshop”, Michigan State University Writing
Center, September 2018
Ibarra, M, & Pouncil, F., “Peer Response Workshop”, Michigan State University Writing Center,
September 2018
Pouncil, F., International Teacher Assistant Training Facilitator, Michigan State University,
August, 2018
Pouncil, F., “Diversity, Power, & Privilege through Zootopia”, Honors College Undergraduate Seminar
110, Michigan State University, November 2017
Pouncil, F., “The Dalton Plan: Looking Back to Look Forward”, Michigan Writing Center Association
Annual Conference; October 2017
Pouncil, F., “TRIO SSS and the Writing Center: Development of Low Income Students, First
Generation Students, and Students with Disabilities through Writing Center Practice”, Michigan Writing
Center Association Annual Conference; October 2017
Pouncil, F., WRA 395: Writing Center Theory, Panelist; September 2017
Pouncil, F., “Who are our students?”/WRA 101 Instructor Training”, Panelist, Michigan State
University; August, 2017
Pouncil, F., “Diversity, Power, & Privilege through Zootopia”, Michigan Youth Leadership Conference;
May 2017, June 2017
Baldwin, D., Pouncil, F., & Smith, T., “Taking the Writing Center on the Road: Community
Composing Project and Outreach”, Michigan Writing Center Association Annual Conference; October
2016

Awards and Accomplishments

Fellowship Recipient, Writing Center Fellowship, Michigan State University, August 2018

Professional Memberships
Two Year College Representative, Advisory Board, East Central Writing Center Association, Spring
2020-Present
Member, American College Personnel Association - College Student Educators International (ACPA),
Spring 2020-Present
Member; International Writing Center Association, Spring 2016 – Present