The University of Michigan-Dearborn Writing Program and Writing Center serve an increasingly large number of recent immigrants, international students, and students who as children immigrated to the United States. The Writing Program and Writing Center have for a decade developed curriculum and support services geared specifically toward meeting the needs of this increasingly heterogeneous student body, while at the same time highlighting students' rich contributions to the learning and rhetorical contexts of the university and surrounding communities. Owing in part to the university's proximity to Detroit and in part to Dearborn's own particular history and demographics--a city with the highest proportion of Arab Americans in the U.S.--UMDearborn comprises a truly cross-cultural and transnational space. Within this rhetorical context, Writing Program curricula with "cross-cultural" and transnational emphases afford students unique opportunities to learn to write for public audiences with backgrounds, experiences and socio-political affiliations very different from their own.