A-B Tech dedicated its Writing Center in Locke Library in honor of Lisa Johnson, the first director of the center, who retired in 2018. Johnson is shown with English Chair Heather Vaughn. “Students’ ideas were valued, their worries could be expressed, and without judgment,” Vaughn said about Johnson’s leadership when the Writing Center first opened in 2008. “Tutors offered direction and support. Students were given an opportunity to learn how to critically think, ask questions, be curious, re-work and re-write. Because of Lisa and her leadership, so many of our graduates earn their credentials.”