Dr. Candace Hastings is Associate Director of the Texas A&M University Writing Center, an academic support unit that provides writing and speaking tutorial assistance to undergraduate and graduate students via F2F and web conferencing appointments as well as online submissions. Of the approximately 11,000 appointments conducted in 2015-2016 at the writing center, 4000 were conducted online or via web conferencing. Hastings is responsible for daily operations, hiring and training over 50 writing and speaking tutors, and supporting all elearning technologies and innovations at the University Writing Center. Prior to working at the writing center, she was the assistant director of Instructional Technology Services at Texas A&M and maintained operations of Blackboard LMS. Before she began life as an Aggie, Hastings served as the dean of distance education at Blinn College, where she developed the distance program from the ground up. She is, by her own admission, a reluctant administrator, however. Her true passion is teaching. She taught undergraduate English composition and creative writing for twenty years at community colleges in both wired and unwired environments and is the co-author of the Creative Writing Guide, published by Longman. Hastings is currently a visiting lecturer at Texas A&M University in the department of Educational Administration & Human Resource Development, where she teaches College Teaching and Literature Review in the graduate program. Her research interests include writing centers, academic integrity, elearning and faculty development.