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SUMMARY:AWAC Is Sponsoring a GSOLE Panel!
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/awac-is-sponsoring-a-gsole-panel/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231202
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SUMMARY:AWAC Workshop: The Latest Arrival: Reflecting on Generative AI's Enrollment in Writing-Intensive Courses
DESCRIPTION:AWAC’s Mentoring Committee is delighted to host Dr. Laura Allen and Dr. Gavin Johnson for a virtual workshop exploring “The Latest Arrival: Reflecting on Generative AI’s Enrollment in Writing-Intensive Courses.” \nAs we approach the conclusion of the first full semester during which generative AI tools have become widely recognized\, discussed\, and integrated into certain classrooms\, we find ourselves at a fascinating crossroads. Is it time to integrate AI into writing pedagogy? Our universities have begun formulating AI policies\, while government regulations are still lagging behind. \nJoin us as we engage in reflection on the impact of generative AI during the Fall 2023 term and\, together\, chart a path forward for writing instructors in this evolving landscape. \nAll AWAC members are invited to join us for this workshop on Friday\, December 1st\, from 4:15-5:15pm Eastern/3:15-4:15pm Central/2:15-3:15pm Mountain/1:15pm-2:15pm Pacific. \nPlease sign up for the event using this link: https://iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1yO74IEGJS1AHSC  \nA Zoom link to the event will be provided upon registration. \nQuestions? Please contact AWAC Mentoring Committee Chair Jackie Kauza (jkauza@iu.edu).
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/workshop-generative-ai/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231027
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231028
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SUMMARY:WAC-GO Collaboration Event
DESCRIPTION:What is WAC-GO? The Writing Across the Curriculum Graduate Organization (WAC-GO) supports and advocates for graduate students interested in writing across the curriculum work. The committee collaborates with other AWAC committees on the mentoring of graduate students\, support for WAC research and publications\, and other projects that align with both missions. WAC-GO\, in collaboration with the AWAC Mentoring Committee\, is hosting an event open to graduate students interested in learning more about writing across the curriculum (WAC)\, writing in the disciplines (WID)\, writing-enriched curriculum (WEC)\, and writing across the globe (WAG). \nJoin us for this exciting virtual event on Friday\, October 27th from 2-3:30pm Eastern/1-2:30pm Central/12-1:30pm Mountain/11am-12:30pm Pacific. \nThis virtual workshop is intended to help graduate students and new-to-WAC professionals from across the disciplines and writing studies learn about WAC and will feature breakout rooms by experts in a number of WAC-related topics. \nThese topics were identified through a survey completed by graduate students across the country: \n\nTeaching writing in the disciplines\nTILT assignment design\nTeaching writing in STEM\nInclusion-Diversity-Equity-Accessibility (IDEA) in WAC\nDemystifying WAC program administration\n\nPlease register for the event. \nQuestions? Please contact AWAC Mentoring Committee Chair Jackie Kauza (jkauza@iu.edu) or WAC-GO Chair Barbara Green (bgreen@purdueglobal.edu)
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/wac-go-collaboration-event-2/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230615
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SUMMARY:WAC Summer Institute 2023
DESCRIPTION:Registration Queue & Details\nCompleting this Google form reserves your spot in the queue for the WAC Summer Institute\, which will take place June 11 – 14\, 2023 in Clemson\, SC at the Madren Conference Center and Inn. This event is in-person only. \nOnce you have completed the reservation form\, you will receive an email within 24 hours detailing your status and\, if applicable\, next steps for payment. If registration is already capped\, submitting this form will reserve your place on the waitlist. Once you have paid\, you may cancel your registration for a full refund until April 1\, 2023. \nRegistration is $800\, and it will be capped at 35 participants. Registration includes admission to the entire event; a Sunday evening reception; and breakfast\, coffee\, and snacks on Monday\, Tuesday\, and Wednesday; and lunch on Monday and Tuesday. \nNote: Since this is a budgeted event based on registration payments\, we need at least 30 participants for the event to run. We will officially announce whether the event is moving forward or not on April 2\, 2023.  \nAgenda & Facilitators\nThe Summer Institute’s primary goal is to assist new and prospective leaders of WAC/WID or similar initiatives in the US and internationally in planning and developing sustainable programs. The Summer Institute also supports experienced directors who face new challenges or wish to expand\, update\, or revitalize their programs. \nThe institute agenda will move through the whole systems approach to launching and developing WAC programs as developed by Michelle Cox\, Jeffrey Galin\, and Dan Melzer in their book Sustainable WAC. Participants will work in small groups\, as a whole group\, individually\, and with facilitators to tailor this approach to their own institutional contexts and goals. \nFacilitators include Cristyn Elder (University of New Mexico)\, Dan Melzer (University of California\, Davis)\, Laurie Pinkert (University of Central Florida)\, Al Harahap (CUNY)\, and Alisa Russell (Wake Forest University). \nLodging & Transportation\nWe have secured a block rate with the James F. Madren Inn (the same location as the event). This block rate is between $145 and $165 dollars per evening. You can book with the block rate by calling and referencing the WACSI/IWAC event. You may select evenings anytime between Sunday June 11 and Sunday June 18 depending on your plans to stay for the IWAC Conference. They will begin releasing any unreserved rooms 60 days prior to the event\, so book by April 11 to secure the rate. \nWe have also set aside extra rooms for Sunday\, Monday\, and Tuesday evening in the Clemson Dormitories\, which is $50 per evening\, and you can also book for the entire week if you plan to stay for IWAC. You must book your dorm room through the Clemson IWAC website. \nYou can also find information about travel to Clemson and local recommendations on the IWAC website.
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/wac-summer-institute-2023/
LOCATION:Madren Conference Center & Inn\, Clemson\, SC
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SUMMARY:WAC-GO Collaboration Event
DESCRIPTION:What is WAC-GO? The Writing Across the Curriculum Graduate Organization (WAC-GO) AWAC Committee supports and advocates for graduate students interested in writing across the curriculum work. The committee collaborates with other AWAC committees on the mentoring of graduate students\, support for WAC research and publications\, and other projects that align with both missions. WAC-GO\, in collaboration with the AWAC Mentoring Committee\, is hosting an event open to graduate students interested in learning more about writing across the curriculum (WAC)\, writing in the disciplines (WID)\, writing-enriched curriculum (WEC)\, and writing across the globe (WAG). \nJoin us for this exciting virtual event on Tuesday\, May 16th from 4-5:30pm Eastern/ 3-4:30pm Central/ 2-3:30pm Mountain/ 1-2:30 Pacific. This virtual workshop is intended to help graduate students from across the disciplines and writing studies learn about WAC and will feature breakout rooms by experts in a number of WAC-related topics. These topics were identified through a survey completed by graduate students across the country: “Joining WAC conversations and networks (include conferences)\,” “Teaching writing in the disciplines\,” “TILT assignment design\,” “Teaching writing in STEM\,” “Inclusion-Diversity-Equity-Accessibility (IDEA) in WAC\,” and “Demystifying WAC program administration.” \nPlease register for the event by clicking HERE. Registration will close Monday\, May 15th at midnight (ET). \nQuestions? Please contact AWAC Mentoring Committee Co-Chairs Lindsay Clark (lclark@shsu.edu) and Amy Cicchino (cicchina@erau.edu) or WAC-GO Chair Barbara Green (bgreen@purdueglobal.edu)
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/wac-go-collaboration-event/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230405
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230406
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SUMMARY:WAC Exemplary Award Winner Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting virtual roundtable on Wednesday\, April 5th at 3pm Eastern/ 2pm Central/ 1pm Mountain/ 12pm Pacific\, featuring Elizabeth Wardle\, PhD; Mandy Olejnik\, PhD; Aimee Mapes\, PhD; and Emily Jo Schwaller\, PhD\, winners of the 2022 Exemplary WAC awards. The Exemplary WAC Program Awards series recognizes the extraordinary achievements of WAC directors and/or administrative teams to establish\, maintain\, and sustain programs that foster and facilitate exemplary engagement with writing across the curriculum at their institution\, as well as institutional commitments to support these achievements. \n\nInterested guests can review our individual and institutional membership options before registering. Registration will close Monday\, April 3rd at midnight (ET). \nHowe Center for Writing Excellence\, Miami University\, Ohio\, Winner of 2022 Exemplary Enduring WAC Program\nThe Howe Writing Across the Curriculum (HWAC) Program is the teacher-facing program of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence. It supports innovative teaching with and about writing across all colleges and disciplines through a variety of programs. The primary goal of HWAC is to support deep change that is initiated by teams of faculty who transform teaching and learning across their programs and departments. The Howe Faculty Writing Fellows Program is the cornerstone project helping to facilitate this work.   \n\nElizabeth Wardle\, PhD\, Director: Elizabeth Wardle is Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication and Director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University\, where she takes primary responsibility for faculty development initiatives. She was previously department chair and director of writing programs at the University of Central Florida. She has co-authored five books about writing instruction and program design and won numerous teaching awards and been recognized for leading two writing programs of excellence.\n\n\nMandy Olejnik\, PhD\, Asst. Director: Dr. Mandy Olejnik joined the HCWE staff as a graduate assistant in 2017 and works now as the Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum. Her research centers on graduate student writing support and how writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs can take leading roles in creating meaningful\, structural change in systems of graduate writing. At the HCWE\, Mandy leads faculty workshops\, assists with the Faculty Fellows Program\, writes Miami Writing Spotlights\, conducts research on HWAC programming\, and handles other administrative tasks.\n\nWriting Across Curriculum (WAC) Program in the Rhetoric\, Composition\, & the Teaching of English program\, University of Arizona\, Winner of 2022 Exemplary Emerging WAC Program\nWriting Across the Curriculum at UArizona represents a coalition of support from three campus units\, including the Office of General Education\, the Center for Assessment\, Technology\, and Teaching\, and the Writing Program in the department of English. WAC at UArizona centers on supporting student writers in their undergraduate study. Specifically\, our goals emphasize sustained support throughout students’ academic literacy experiences in order to (a) sequence student writing opportunities across their academic careers; (b) increase student engagement through meaningful writing; and (c) contribute to student writing proficiency across a wide range of academic and professional contexts. Current campus-wide initiatives provided by WAC programming include the Writing Attribute in General Education courses and a grant-funded project called WAC Faculty Fellows. Both programs focus on evidence-based instructor training in the teaching of writing. Through workshops\, faculty learning communities\, and individual consultations\, the WAC team helps instructors to design effective writing assignments with a backwards alignment of assessment and feedback. Providing a more robust level of support\, the WAC Faculty Fellows initiative involves a year-long commitment of instructors\, who learn how to promote antiracist writing pedagogy at our Hispanic Serving Institution. Additionally\, these fellows receive support through embedded tutors from Think Tank Writing Center. \n\nAimee Mapes\, PhD\, Director: Aimee Mapes is the Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at The University of Arizona and Associate Writing Studies Specialist in the program of Rhetoric\, Composition\, and the Teaching of English. Her research interests include literacy theory\, composition studies\, sociocultural theories of learning\, situated identity theories\, qualitative methodology\, and writing across the curriculum. She has published in Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy\, AHEAD\, CCC\, Reflections\, and WPA: the Journal of Writing Program Administration. She currently serves as Associate Editor of Writing Studies for Prompt: A Journal of Writing Assignments. Once awarded best freshman teacher of the year\, Aimee has taught first-year writing\, writing in the disciplines\, introduction to qualitative methodology\, introduction to research methodology\, and rhetorical theory.\n\n\nEmily Jo Schwaller\, Assistant Professor of Practice: Emily Jo Schwaller is originally from East Helena\, Montana where she comes from a family of teachers from preschool to college. She did her Master’s at NC State in English before coming to UArizona to study for her Ph.D. in Rhetoric\, Composition\, and the Teaching of English. Before joining the University Center for Assessment\, Teaching\, and Technology\, she worked in General Education\, where she still has the opportunity to collaborate with her wonderful learning partners. Emily Jo’s work focuses on writing and learning\, graduate student and future faculty growth\, and reflective writing. Her research can be found in Composition Forum\, New Directions for Teaching and Learning\, Composition Studies\, and WPA: Writing Program Administration\, where she worked as an Assistant Editor.\n\nQuestions? Please contact AWAC Mentoring Committee Co-Chairs Lindsay Clark (lclark@shsu.edu) and Amy Cicchino (cicchina@erau.edu).
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/wac-exemplary-award-winner-roundtable/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221021T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221021T143000
DTSTAMP:20230720T150717Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop - Turning the Page: Notes Towards Mindfulness\, Motivation\, and Meaningful Work at HBCU Writing Centers and Programs
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting virtual workshop on Friday\, October 21st at 1pm. U.S. Eastern/12pm U.S. Central/ 11am U.S. Mountain/ 10am U.S. Pacific\, presented by Dr. Kendra Mitchell\, Dr. Robert Randolph\, Jr.\, and Amber Lunderman. \nIf you are an AWAC or GSOLE member\, register for the event by clicking HERE. Interested guests can review our individual and institutional membership options before registering. Registration will close Wednesday\, October 19th at midnight (ET). \nDrawing upon their award-winning 2018 International Writing Center Association keynote address\, the presenters will discuss the strategies and techniques they employ in their writing programs to promote mindfulness\, motivation\, and meaningful work at HBCUs.  They are exploring this meaningful work of mindful motivation in the HBCU writing centers as makerspaces. First\, they will talk about practical mindfulness techniques that help to decrease anxiety\, track intentionality\, and promote reflection. Then\, they will discuss the intersections of African American Language (AAL) and Edited American English (EAE) to provide students with a sense of agency and motivation. Lastly\, they will speak about how writing ecologies\, including writing centers\, help promote a sense of meaningful work that extends beyond writing assignments. \nSpeaker Bios \nKendra Mitchell (she/her)\, is Director of Composition at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee\, Florida\, where she has taught composition\, literature\, and historical linguistics. She serves as an Executive Committee member for NCTE and was also appointed to the NCTE Committee for Change\, a social justice-driven committee. Her research interests include the intersections of translanguaging\, writing center studies\, and Black ways of knowing. Dr. Mitchell’s writing center scholarship can be found in the Writing Center Journal\, Praxis Journal\, and several book collections. Her current scholarship includes mapping geospatial\, social\, and multimodal circulation of Black identities and culture at/as HBCUs found in her forthcoming co-edited special issue in the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics\, Transdisciplinarity @HBCUs: (Re)Writing Black Futures beyond the Margins\, and her forthcoming HBCU writing center co-edited collection\, Makin’ A Way Outta No Way: HBCUs\, Writing Centers\, & Antiracism.  \nRobert Randolph\, Jr.\, PhD (he/him)\, is Director of The Writing Center at Shaw University in Raleigh\, North Carolina. His research and teaching interests include 20th- and 21st-century African American literature and cultural production\, socio-cultural foundations of education\, and Black feminist and queer rhetorics and pedagogies.  His notable publications include “The Queer Poetics of Social Justice: Literacy\, Affect(ion)\, and the Critical Pedagogical Imperative” and “Shifting the Talk: Writing Studies\, Rhetoric\, and Feminism at HBCUs.”  \nAmber Lunderman (she/hers) is a Fall 2021 graduate of Florida A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in English. She currently works as a tutor in the FAMU Writing Resource Center and as a Marketing Assistant for Anhinga Press in Tallahassee. During her senior year\, Amber was a student editor for FAMU’s literary Journal\, CaKe\, an experience which inspired her to want to pursue a post-graduate degree in Publishing. She will be attending Rosemont College in spring of 2023 where she will be on a quest to obtain a double degree in Publishing and Creative Writing. Amber is a lover of fantasy\, sci-fi\,  magical realism\, and historical fiction. \nQuestions? Please contact AWAC Mentoring Committee Co-Chairs Lindsay Clark (lclark@shsu.edu) and Amy Cicchino (cicchina@erau.edu).
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/virtual-workshop-turning-the-page-notes-towards-mindfulness-motivation-and-meaningful-work-at-hbcu-writing-centers-and-program/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220612
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220616
DTSTAMP:20220523T132359Z
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SUMMARY:WAC Summer Institute 2022 @ UGA
DESCRIPTION:The Summer Institute’s primary goal is to assist new and prospective leaders of WAC/WID or similar initiatives in the US and internationally in planning and developing sustainable programs. The Summer Institute also supports experienced directors who face new challenges or wish to expand\, update\, or revitalize their programs. \nThe institute agenda will move through the whole systems approach to launching and developing WAC programs as developed by Michelle Cox\, Jeffrey Galin\, and Dan Melzer in their book Sustainable WAC. Participants will work in small groups\, as a whole group\, individually\, and with facilitators to tailor this approach to their own institutional contexts and goals. Check out the schedule-at-a-glance here.  \nFacilitators include Cristyn Elder (University of New Mexico)\, Chris Anson (North Carolina State University)\, Jamila Kareem (University of Central Florida)\, Jeffrey Galin (Florida Atlantic University)\, and Alisa Russell (Wake Forest University). \nRegistration will be capped at 35 participants and opens February 13 at 1:00 PM EST. \nRegistration closes at 11:59 PM EST on April 11\, 2022.
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/wac-summer-institute-2022-uga/
LOCATION:University of Georgia\, Athens\, Athens\, Georgia\, 30602
CATEGORIES:Summer Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="WACSI Committee":MAILTO:AWACSummerInstitute@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T163000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: Accessible Assessment
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting virtual workshop on Friday\, May 13th from 3:00-4:30pm ET\, presented by Dr. Molly E. Ubbesen\, Director of Writing at University of Minnesota Rochester. \nIf you are an AWAC member\, register for the event by clicking HERE. Interested guests can review our individual and institutional membership options before registering. Registration will close Wednesday\, May 11th at midnight (ET). \nEvent Recording: \n\nDr. Ubbesen will examine how our assessment practices\, specifically grading and evaluating student work\, through the lens of access can create inclusive access not only for students and instructors with disabilities\, but for everyone in the class. Accessibility is also a matter of anti-racist\, feminist\, and trauma-informed pedagogies that tend to students’ intersectional identities. She will provide the rationale for her credit-based evaluation scheme\, which is a form of ungrading that promotes meaningful learning over obtaining letter grades and will also analyze student reflections on this grading scheme. Participants will reflect on their own grading schemes and evaluation practices and learn ways to make them more accessible and equitable. \nSpeaker Bio \nMolly E. Ubbesen\, Ph.D. (she/her) is Assistant Professor and Director of Writing at University of Minnesota Rochester. She applies critical disability studies to writing studies to support more accessible and effective teaching and learning. Dr. Ubbesen has published work in Writing Program Administration\, Composition Forum\, and Disability Studies Quarterly. She is on the editorial team for a second edition of the foundational text Disability and the Teaching of Writing\, and she is also working on a research project about accessible assessment. A favorite part of her job is teaching the Disability Narratives course she designed. \nQuestions? Please contact AWAC Mentoring Committee Co-Chairs Lindsay Clark (lclark@shsu.edu) and Amy Cicchino (atc0057@auburn.edu).
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/virtual-workshop-accessible-assessment/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220406T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: Expanding Reflective Writing Theory for Inclusive Practice
DESCRIPTION:Recording of the workshop: \n\nJoin us for an exciting virtual workshop on Wednesday\, April 6th\, 4:00-5:30pm ET\, presented by Dr. Christy Goldsmith and Dr. Julie Birt from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Campus Writing Program.  \nIf you are an AWAC member\, register for the event by clicking here. Interested guests can review our individual and institutional membership options before registering. Registration will close Monday\, April 4th at 5:00pm ET. \nIn her article parsing Dewey for modern educators\, Carol Rodgers (2002) remarks\, “Over the past 15 years\, reflection has suffered from a loss of meaning. In becoming everything to everybody\, it has lost the ability to be seen” (p. 843). As WAC practitioners\, we echo Rodgers’ call to revisit reflective writing\, especially considering the ways it can support students’ wrestling with complex questions of the discipline and create more inclusive classes. \nIn this interactive workshop\, Christy and Julie will engage participants in writing\, thinking\, and applying various approaches to reflective writing tasks. They’ll share their research exploring qualities of reflective writing in disciplinary literacy assignments at their institution\, and they’ll provide examples of individual and group reflective writing tasks. Participants will leave the session with some new writing-to-learn strategies to add to their WAC toolboxes and an intention to try out a new reflective writing strategy in their classes or professional development work. \nQuestions the workshop will consider:   \n\nWhat is your existing knowledge of and comfort with reflective writing? What kinds of reflective writing activities/purposes do you include in your courses or your professional development work?\nWhat tensions or wonderings do you (or the WAC faculty you work with) have around reflective writing?\nHow do the goals and outcomes of reflection change based on where it is placed in the course/unit/assignment? How can we connect reflective writing activities with course objectives?\nHow do we assess or provide feedback on reflective writing?\n\nSpeaker Bios \nDr. Christy Goldsmith is the Assistant Director of the Campus Writing Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Through narrative inquiry\, Christy explores the intersection of writing teachers’ identities as writers and teachers-of-writing\, highlighting the tensions inherent in writing instruction. Her second strand of research revolves around the teaching and learning of disciplinary literacy\, including professional development design at the secondary and post-secondary levels. \nDr. Julie Birt is the Coordinator at the Campus Writing Program at the University of Missouri. Julie’s research follows her interests in helping post-secondary instructors use writing in their college classrooms to reach all students\, most specifically\, those with a rural background. Outside of her regular research\, Julie enjoys working directly with students to help improve their writing and communication skills in science courses. \nQuestions? Please contact AWAC Mentoring Committee Co-Chairs Lindsay Clark (lclark@shsu.edu) and Amy Cicchino (atc0057@auburn.edu).
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/virtual-workshop-expanding-reflective-writing-theory-practice/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211117T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: Toward an Asset-based Antiracist Approach to Writing Assessment
DESCRIPTION:This virtual event was held on November 17th\, 2021 from 2:00-3:30pm EST (1:00-2:30pm CST\, 12:00–1:30pm MST\, and 11:00am–12:30pm PST). The recording is provided below: \n\nThe speakers ask that everyone bring graded student writing with comments to participate in this interactive workshop. \nIf you are an AWAC member\, register for the event by clicking here. Interested guests can review our individual and institutional membership options before registering. Registration will close Monday\, November 15th at 5:00pm EST. \nOur speakers are Shawanda J. Stewart and Stephanie M. Frausto from Huston-Tillotson University in Austin\, Texas. In “How to Stop Harming Students: An Ecological Guide to Antiracist Writing Assessment\,” Inoue and Poe identify seven interconnected\, holistic components of a writing assessment ecology and encourage people to consider the histories and the ideologies that inform their writing assessment values. During this interactive workshop\, they will work through determining these values. Please bring with you about 10 side/end comments made to student writing. \nShawanda Stewart is an Associate Professor of English at Huston-Tillotson University. Her primary research interests include African American rhetoric\, language ideology and culture\, and first-year composition pedagogy. \nStephanie M. Frausto is an English Adjunct Professor at Huston-Tillotson University. Her current research topics include antiracist assessment and student learning outcomes and objectives. \nQuestions? Please contact AWAC Mentoring Committee Co-Chairs Lindsay Clark (lclark@shsu.edu) and Amy Cicchino (atc0057@auburn.edu).
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/virtual-workshop-toward-an-asset-based-antiracist-approach-to-writing-assessment/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211020
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211024
DTSTAMP:20210903T160922Z
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SUMMARY:2021 WAC "Fall" Institute
DESCRIPTION:Notice of Cancellation\nWe regret to announce that the 2021 Fall Institute that was slated for Albuquerque this October has been cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and Delta variant.  \nPlanning is already underway for the 2022 WAC Summer Institute\, which will take place in Athens\, GA\, from June 12 – 15\, 2022. We’ll distribute more details about that event in the Spring. \nFeel free to email AWACSummerInstitute@gmail.com if you have any questions.  \nWACSI Committee\n\nCurrent Lead Facilitator: Chris Anson\, North Carolina State University\nIncoming Lead Facilitator & Local Host: Cristyn Elder\, University of New Mexico\nOutgoing Lead Facilitator: Jeff Galin\, Florida Atlantic University\nFacilitator: Genevieve García de Müeller\, Syracuse University\nCurrent Chair & Facilitator: Alisa Russell\, Wake Forest University\n\nContact AWACSummerInstitute@gmail.com for more information. \n 
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/2021-wac-summer-institute/
LOCATION:University of New Mexico\, Albuquerque\, NM\, 87131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Summer Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="WACSI Committee":MAILTO:AWACSummerInstitute@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T153000
DTSTAMP:20230720T150938Z
CREATED:20210908T185935Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: A Practical Toolkit for Antiracist WAC
DESCRIPTION:This virtual event was held on September 22nd 2021 from 2:00-3:30pm ET. The speakers requested everyone bring a syllabus to participate in this interactive workshop. The recording is provided below:\n \n\nOur speakers are Genevieve García de Müeller and Ana Cortés Lagos from Syracuse University. This interactive workshop will guide participants through a reflection on how writing is conceptualized and taught across the curriculum\, and identifying potential sites for critical\, antiracist WAC interventions. All attendees are asked to bring a syllabus from a disciplinary course (you can bring your writing course syllabus as well!). \nGenevieve García de Müeller\, tenure-track assistant professor and Writing Across Curriculum (WAC) coordinator at Syracuse University\, was awarded a 2015-2016 CCCC Research Initiative Grant. She is the Founder and Chair of the Council of Writing Program Administration (CWPA) People of Color Caucus and holds a position on the CWPA Executive Board. Her WAC program recently won the CCCC Writing Program of Excellence award. \nAna Cortés Lagos is ABD in Writing Studies\, Rhetoric and Composition at Syracuse University\, and Asst. Editor for the Latin American Section of the WAC Clearinghouse International Exchange series. Her research focuses on transnational writing studies and WAC/WID. Her most recent publications appear in Latinx Writing and Rhetoric Studies and College English. \nQuestions? Please contact AWAC Mentoring Committee Co-Chairs Amy Cicchino (atc0057@auburn.edu) and Lindsay Clark (lclark@shsu.edu)
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/virtual-workshop-a-practical-toolkit-for-antiracist-wac/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210804
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210808
DTSTAMP:20210916T045802Z
CREATED:20201022T215119Z
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SUMMARY:IWAC 2020 / 2021
DESCRIPTION:IWAC 2020 has been postponed until August 4-7\, 2021.\nPlease join us at the 2020 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference August 4-7\, 2021 in Fort Collins\, Colorado\, on the campus of Colorado State University. The theme of the conference\, Celebrating Successes\, Recognizing Challenges\, Inviting Critique and Innovation\, recognizes the 50th anniversary of the first WAC faculty workshop\, held at Central College by Barbara Walvoord. With this in mind\, IWAC 2020 offers an opportunity for both celebration of successes over the first 50 years of the WAC movement and thoughtful consideration of the challenges facing the WAC movement as we move forward. \nPlease visit https://iwac.colostate.edu to learn more about the conference. \nTo register\, please visit https://conferencereg.colostate.edu/IWAC2020. AWAC members can take advantage of a discounted registration fee.
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/iwac-2020/
LOCATION:Colorado State University\, Fort Collins\, CO
CATEGORIES:IWAC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210615T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210615T170000
DTSTAMP:20210611T235817Z
CREATED:20210611T234605Z
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SUMMARY:AWAC Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the AWAC Annual Business Meeting on Zoom!\n[The meeting link is on the left under “Website.” For the meeting password\, see the end of the email sent to members on 6.11.21 by AWAC <secretary@wacassociation.org> via mailchimpapp.net.]  \nHow can AWAC best fulfill its mission to “bring together the intellectual\, human\, political\, and economic capital of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) community to better support and grow WAC as a global intellectual and pedagogical movement”? Just as importantly\, as a young organization\, we must also ask: How can we bring antiracist practices to all aspects of AWAC and\, by extension\, WAC work? \nTo this end\, this year’s meeting will have two elements: \n\nA report on the work of AWAC from June 2020 to July 2021\, including reports on committee accomplishments from the chairs.a\n\n\nA conversation about racism and antiracist practices with the concrete goal of brainstorming answers to the question\, How can we bring antiracist practices to all aspects of AWAC and WAC work?\n\nIn preparation for the June 15th meeting\, we encourage you to reflect on this question with respect to the full range of AWAC’s work. As you reflect\, you might find it helpful to view this video of our most recent virtual WAC pedagogy workshop\, “WAC Pedagogy\, Equity\, and Antiracism.” Drs. Teresa Redd\, Zhaozhe Wang\, and Kate Drezek McConnell talk about the many challenges to achieving equity in WAC programs and solutions for developing antiracist practices in WAC courses.
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/awac-business-meeting/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210514T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210514T140000
DTSTAMP:20210526T153813Z
CREATED:20210501T164835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T153813Z
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SUMMARY:Researching Reading and Writing in Latin America
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/researching-reading-and-writing-in-latin-america/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T153000
DTSTAMP:20210526T154413Z
CREATED:20210303T220813Z
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SUMMARY:CCCC WAC Standing Group/AWAC Mentoring Committee Joint Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Please join the CCCC WAC Standing Group and the AWAC Mentoring Committee for a joint business meeting and mentoring breakout sessions on Friday\, April 16th at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time. We’ll also be joined by WAC-GO\, who will give a brief presentation on opportunities with their organization. \nTo register for the meeting\, please fill out this form by Thursday\, April 15th. We will circulate a Zoom link to registered participants the morning of the meeting. The form also invites you to help facilitate a breakout session—please volunteer! \nIf you have any questions\, please feel free to contact either Christopher Basgier (crb0085@auburn.edu) or Dan Melzer (dlmelzer@ucdavis.edu).
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/cccc-wac-standing-group-awac-mentoring-committee-joint-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210401T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210401T170000
DTSTAMP:20220107T233231Z
CREATED:20210322T064348Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop on WAC Pedagogy\, Equity\, and Antiracism
DESCRIPTION:AWAC members are invited to attend the next virtual workshop in the WAC pedagogy series. Please register for the event here. Register by 5:00 ET on March 30th. (Zoom link will be sent to participants before the event.)\n \nQuestions? Please contact AWAC Mentoring Committee member Joanna Johnson at jsjohnson@miami.edu.\n \nWorkshop Session Descriptions\n1. Conformity or Equity?: Designing WAC Assignments to Promote Equity in the Curriculum\nPresenter:  Teresa Redd\, former director of Writing Across the Curriculum and the Center for Excellence in Teaching\, Learning & Assessment at Howard University \nDescription: Drawing upon Critical Language Pedagogy\, the presenter will examine how WAC assignments can promote conformity or equity in the curriculum. First\, she will demonstrate how WAC privileges the canons and conventions of the dominant group in a discipline.  Then she will expose the consequences: how WAC assignments marginalize people of color by requiring students to conform to canons and conventions that often do not include their perspectives or address their needs. Finally\, by sharing excerpts from WAC assignments from Howard University\, she will illustrate how some Howard faculty have designed WAC assignments to create an equitable curriculum that can benefit all students. \nPresenter Bio: Teresa Redd directed Howard University’s Writing Across the Curriculum Program for 24 years as well as the Center for Excellence in Teaching\, Learning & Assessment for nearly 13.  She also served on the Board of Consultants of the International Network of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Programs for 19 years.  She is best known for co-authoring A Teacher’s Introduction to African American English: What a Writing Teacher Should Know\, published by the National Council of Teachers of English (2005).  Since retiring\, she has served as a WAC consultant and published “Breaking Out of the Box: Expanding the WAC Program at Howard University” in Shirley Logan and Wayne Slater’s volume Academic and Professional Writing in an Age of Accountability (Southern Illinois University Press\, 2018). \n2. Autoethnography as a Site of Negotiation for Linguistic Justice\nPresenter:  Zhaozhe Wang\, doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Purdue University \nDescription: This presentation will draw our attention to international multilingual students who are victims of tacit or explicit linguistic racism on campus. The presenter will begin with a call for meaningful advocacy work in the disciplines\, then introduce an autoethnography assignment designed to cultivate linguistic equity and combat linguistic racism. The description of the assignment will be illustrated with a student case. The presenter will conclude by offering suggestions on how to appropriate the assignment for WAC/WID contexts. \nPresenter Bio: Zhaozhe Wang is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Purdue University\, where he teaches writing and communication. His work\, broadly exploring multilingual literacy and transnational digital/public rhetorics\, has appeared in journals such as College Composition and Communication\, Composition Forum\, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. He is also co-editor of Reconciling Translingualism and Second Language Writing. \n3. What the Written Communication ‘Landscape of Learning’ Reveals about Equity in Undergraduate Learning\nPresenter: Kate Drezek McConnell\, Assistant Vice President for Research & Assessment and Director of the VALUE Institute\, AAC&U \nDescription: AAC&U’s inaugural Landscape of Learning report spans five years (2014-2019) of findings on student learning outcomes gathered from samples of student work submitted by campuses and evaluated by national panels of scorers using the VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education) rubrics. For written communication\, the most frequently subscribed outcome\, results are based on over 20\,000 scored pieces of student work. This presentation will share aggregate results for Written Communication focused on equity\, diversity across higher education sectors\, and quality of learning within the undergraduate curriculum. \nPresenter Bio: Kate Drezek McConnell\, PhD\, is Assistant Vice President for Research & Assessment and Director of the VALUE Institute\, AAC&U’s nationwide assessment system that enables any higher education provider (institution\, PCE program\, academic department\, state\, consortium\, etc.) to collect and upload samples of student work to a digital repository and have the work scored by certified VALUE Institute scorers for external validation of institutional learning assessment. An educational psychologist by training\, Dr. McConnell has written extensively on the reliability and validity of the VALUE approach to assessment. Her other research and campus consultations focus on using course-embedded assessment to improve teaching and learning while also addressing accountability and accreditation requirements; course-embedded assessment; aligning pedagogy with assessment efforts; faculty development; and leveraging the learning sciences in teaching\, assessment\, and evaluation. Before joining AAC&U\, Dr. McConnell spent ten years at Virginia Tech working in assessment and evaluation as well as serving as affiliate faculty in Virginia Tech’s graduate program in educational psychology\, teaching courses on cognitive processes and effective college teaching. She received a BA from the University of Virginia\, an MA in history from Providence College (Rhode Island)\, and a PhD in educational psychology from Virginia Tech. \nThis content is for  members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/virtual-workshop-on-wac-pedagogy-equity-and-antiracism/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201113T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201113T163000
DTSTAMP:20210224T010914Z
CREATED:20201111T171029Z
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SUMMARY:Keeping WAC Programs Afloat
DESCRIPTION:As Chris Thaiss and Tara Porter wrote a decade ago\, more than half of the 418 WAC programs that they studied either failed or were significantly reconstituted (2010\, p. 558). Recent pressures due to budget cuts\, the effects of Covid-19\, and rapidly shifting priorities in higher education have further threatened the sustainability of WAC programs at the same time as these challenges have highlighted their importance. This workshop will examine ways to keep WAC programs thriving\, including the formulation of strategic plans with stakeholder input\, aligning program goals with campus priorities\, using SWOT analyses to mitigate external threats with internal strengths\, and the ability to be flexible in order to meet changing campus needs. Drawing from the literature in strategic planning as well as the recent book Sustainable WAC (Cox\, Galin\, Melzer\, 2018)\, the presenters will discuss the ways in which they have focused on program sustainability in three different institutional settings. We will save a significant amount of time towards the end of the webinar for brainstorming further ideas for sustainability and for participants to apply these frameworks to their own institutional settings. \nThis content is for  members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/keeping-wac-programs-afloat/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200918
DTSTAMP:20201123T214248Z
CREATED:20200917T152200Z
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SUMMARY:Responding to Writing
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, Pam\, Kelli\, and Chris focused on sequenced response and peer review\, response to the expressed needs of writers\, connections between purpose and audience for both writer and respondent\, and features of responding to writing in online environments. \nResponse to writing is an essential part of the process of writing in all disciplines for all writers\, from students to professionals. From scientists to creative writers\, historians to mathematicians\, all of us and our students need response (AKA “feedback”) to what we have written in order to help us develop our ideas and make our writing effective in reaching our readers. \nQuestions the workshop will consider: \nAs teachers and mentors\, how can we make our responses most timely and most meaningful to our students toward achieving their writing goals? \nAs writers\, how can we get the feedback most useful to meeting our own writing goals? \nHow can we help writers maintain ownership of their writing\, while also helping them improve the quality of what they write? \nHow can we help our students become effective responders themselves to the writing of peers and other writers? \nHow can we as responders become more aware of and respectful of cultural and linguistic diversity? \nHow can technological tools\, especially in online instruction\, improve response while also helping to build a community of learners and writers? \nHow can we adapt response to the increasing variety of genres\, purposes\, styles\, and media in communication? \nIn this interactive workshop\, Pam\, Kelli\, and Chris will give short presentations to address the above questions—with focus on sequenced response and peer review\, response to the expressed needs of writers\, connections between purpose and audience for both writer and respondent\, and features of responding to writing in online environments. \nParticipants will then engage in breakout groups to help each person develop response strategies pertinent to their own teaching and writing. \nPresenter Bios \nChris Thaiss served as Clark Kerr Presidential Chair and Director of the UC Davis University Writing Program and directed Davis’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (until 2015). A teacher of writing for four decades\, he is the author or editor of 14 books\, including his most recent\, Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century (Broadview\, 2019) and the 4th edition of A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to the Modern United States (with James J. Murphy; Routledge\, 2020). \nPam Childers directed the WAC-based writing center at McCallie School (TN) as Caldwell Chair of Composition and currently serves as Executive Editor of The Clearing House. Her decades of teaching writing at all academic levels and directing wac-based writing centers have inspired her collaborative work on four books\, including WAC Partnerships Between Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions (with Jacob Blumner\, 2016)\, and hundreds of chapters\, columns\, and articles. Her current research focuses on the pedagogy of former writing center directors. \nKelli Cargile Cook is a Professor and Founding Chair of the Professional Communication Department at Texas Tech University. She co-edited two collections on online education in technical communication: Online Education 2.0: Evolving\, Adapting\, and Reinventing Online Technical Communication (2013) and Online Education: Global Questions\, Local Answers (2005). Her online education scholarship has also appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly and Business Communication Quarterly. \nThis content is for  members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/wac-pedagogy-series-responding-to-writing/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200508
DTSTAMP:20201123T213548Z
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SUMMARY:Designing and Using Writing-to-Learn Assignments
DESCRIPTION:This virtual workshop was offered on May 7th\, 2020 by the AWAC Mentoring Committee and was led by Marty Townsend (University of Missouri Emerita) and Chris Anson (North Carolina State University). \nThe relationship between writing and learning has been a fundamental part of the WAC movement from its beginnings. When students write frequently and informally about the material of their courses\, they experience deeper learning—stronger analysis\, synthesis\, and integration of ideas—and enhanced reading processes (Graham & Hebert\, 2010). And when this low-stakes writing is woven into the fabric of their courses\, class sessions can be more engaging and socially dynamic. \nIn this interactive workshop\, Marty Townsend and Chris Anson explained the theoretical orientation of writing to learn\, including distinctions between writing to learn and more formal\, higher-stakes writing\, and then engaged participants in methods for designing and evaluating effective\, learning-based writing assignments and integrating them into their courses to enhance student engagement. \nPlease note that video includes example WTL assignments shared in PowerPoints that can only be shared with the permission of the authors of the assignments. If you wish to share any material from the PowerPoints\, please contact Marty or Chris for permission (see AWAC Board of Consultants for their contact information). \nPresenter Bios \nMarty Townsend is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Missouri (MU) and former Director of MU’s award-winning Campus Writing Program (from 1991-2006). Marty has spoken\, consulted\, and led faculty workshops at over 100 colleges and universities in the U.S. and in dozens of international settings.  She has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses on writing. Her research interests include WAC\, WID\, writing assessment\, and writing program administration. She is a passionate advocate for teaching writing in all disciplines. \nChris Anson is Distinguished University Professor\, Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor\, and Director of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University\, where he works with faculty across the disciplines to enhance writing and speaking instruction. He has published 19 books and 140 articles and book chapters relating to writing\, WAC\, and WID\, and has spoken and led faculty workshops across the U.S. and in 33 other countries. He is Past Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and Past President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators\, and is co-chair of AWAC’s International Collaborations Committee. He is currently co-editing a new collection on the writing-enriched (WEC) approach to writing across the curriculum. His full c.v. is at www.ansonica.net \nThis content is for  members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/designing-and-using-writing-to-learn-assignments/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200418
DTSTAMP:20201123T215346Z
CREATED:20200417T211019Z
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SUMMARY:Strategies for Online WAC Faculty Development
DESCRIPTION:This virtual workshop was offered on April 17th\, 2020 by the AWAC Mentoring Committee and the CCCC WAC Standing Group and was led by Christopher Basgier (Auburn University)\, Amy Cicchino (Auburn University)\, and Susanmarie Harrington (University of Vermont). \nMany WAC administrators are moving faculty development experiences online during the COVID-19 pandemic. This virtual workshop focused on strategies for supporting faculty remotely\, with a particular emphasis on extended faculty development experiences such as WAC workshop series. \nTopics of discussion included: \n\nManaging time in online development planning\nDesigning synchronous and asynchronous interactions\nCreating accessible experiences that can appeal to a range of instructors\nPromoting meaningful interactions with and among faculty\n\nFacilitators will each touch on these topics\, but we hope participants will share their ideas and strategies as well. In addition\, the AWAC Mentoring Committee will help organize participants into peer groups following the workshop so they can continue sharing ideas and getting feedback on their work. \nPresenter Bios \nChristopher Basgier is Acting Director of University Writing at Auburn University. He works on a number of different programs for University Writing\, which includes a comprehensive WAC/WID faculty development arm\, a Writing Center\, and an ePortfolio Project\, which is Auburn’s Quality Enhancement Project for SACS accreditation. He consults with individual faculty and departments on writing and high impact practices in courses and curricula; supervises professional development for writing center staff; and delivers workshops on a range of different topics. His research currently involves the methodological challenges in identifying threshold concepts for the teaching of writing in the disciplines. \nAmy Cicchino is Associate Director of University Writing at Auburn University. At Auburn\, she supports faculty development within the WAC program\, leads the Graduate Writing Partners program\, facilitates workshops related to writing and writing instruction\, and is currently expanding asynchronous online resources for writing across the curriculum. Her research takes up writing program administration\, multimodal online instruction\, and teacher professionalization. She is a member of the AWAC Mentoring Committee\, an Executive Board At-Large member of the Global Society for Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE)\, and is co-leading a task force on digital ethics and ePortfolios for the Association for Authentic\, Experimental\, Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL). \nSusanmarie Harrington is Director of Writing in the Disciplines at the University of Vermont. In addition to coordinating writing-related faculty development for faculty across campus\, she has been involved in UVM’s general education efforts and also coordinates UVM Communicates\, an initiative focused on training students and faculty to communicate their expertise to broader audiences. She works with individual faculty\, cohorts and departments on writing pedagogies in courses and disciplines\, leads workshops on course design\, assessment\, peer review\, and other topics. Her current research explores faculty development at the intersections of writing and information literacy. \nThis content is for  members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/strategies-for-online-wac-faculty-development/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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SUMMARY:Closing the Assessment Loop: WAC Assessment Options and Strategies
DESCRIPTION:The AWAC Mentoring Committee is offering its second virtual workshop on WAC program development and leadership\, “Closing the Assessment Loop: WAC Assessment Options and Strategies\,” on Friday\, February 21st from 1:00-2:00 U.S. EST on Zoom. \nThis virtual workshop offers descriptions of several WAC assessment practices that have been used successfully by two well-established WAC programs to “close the loop” for writing assessment. The presenters will speak for 30 minutes and leave 30 minutes for discussions and questions. Over the course of the discussion\, other assessment models will be identified and pros and cons of each introduced. \nTerry Myers Zawacki\, emerita director of the George Mason University WAC program and currently a program consultant\, and Tom Polk\, interim WAC program director\, will describe an ecological approach to both program and discipline-based writing assessment. Terry will describe the department-embedded writing assessment and other processes she developed in collaboration with the associate provost of institutional effectiveness with the goal of proving and improving WAC program effectiveness around faculty teaching-with-writing practices and students’ writing competence. Tom will describe surveys and interviews designed to understand faculty and student perceptions of writing instruction in designated WI courses. He and Terry will then explain current efforts to identify and synthesize the extensive existing institutional data related to student writing across the curriculum for the purpose of sustaining and re-visioning one of the first WAC programs in the country. \nJeff Galin\, founding director of FAU’s WAC program\, writing center\, and community writing center\, will briefly describe three sets of assessment practices: 1) Despite admonitions from some scholars in the field\, there are ways to use common rubrics across disciplines for evaluating certain types of academic writing that provide useful and effective strategies for departments to establish benchmarks across traits\, identify specific traits to target in a given year\, and establish curricular interventions to foster improvement in both teaching and student writing. 2) Assessment within a WEC pilot program provides much more fine-grained assessment practices for participating departments. 3) WAC program self-assessment using sustainability indicators enables WAC programs to track their program’s long-term viability to anticipate program shifts and weaknesses. \nThis content is for  members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/closing-the-assessment-loop-wac-assessment-options-and-strategies/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191116
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SUMMARY:Filling Your WAC Backpack: Starting Your WAC Program Prepared
DESCRIPTION:This virtual workshop was offered on November 15\, 2019\, by the AWAC Mentoring Committee and was led by AWAC Members Chris Basgier (Auburn University)\, Michelle Cox (Cornell University)\, and Joan Mullin (University of North Carolina Charlotte). \nThis online workshop was designed for anyone who is starting\, or thinking of starting\, a WAC program at their institution. The panelists began with a discussion of the relationships and distinctions among WAC pedagogy\, WAC initiatives\, and WAC programs. They then provided brief overviews of the WAC programs they’ve led\, after which they described the essential contents of a “WAC Backpack”: the characteristics and habits new WAC administrators need when initiating conversations about WAC and building sustainable programs. Throughout and at the end\, the panelists responded to questions posed by participants about challenges of developing WAC programs in specific contexts. The video (see link below) includes the chat\, in which participants crowdsourced responses to questions about favorite resources to share with disciplinary faculty\, approaches to dealing with challenges\, and the moments of joy that make WAC program leadership worthwhile. \nThis content is for  members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/2504/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191016
DTSTAMP:20201111T204314Z
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SUMMARY:Moving WAC to the Web: Using GSOLE OLI  to Create Resources for Online Writing Across Disciplines
DESCRIPTION:This virtual workshop was offered on October 15\, 2019 by the AWAC Mentoring Committee in collaboration with the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE) and was led by AWAC Mentoring Committee members Amy Cicchino (Auburn University) and Lindsay Clark (Sam Houston State University) and by Traci Austin (Sam Houston State University). \nThis workshop explored how GSOLE’s “Online Literacy Instruction Principles and Tenets” can frame online literacy instruction across disciplinary contexts. By focusing especially on the first principle—accessibility—the webinar leaders engaged administrators and instructors in a process of linking principle to practice. More specifically\, the webinar leaders described their own experiences with developing accessible online course materials\, which involved using Blackboard Ally. Then\, participants were invited to share their experiences and to collaboratively respond to a course design scenario. This webinar thus responded to a gap between national documents and local practice and focuses on how to develop local practices to support the first principle\, accessibility.
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/wacc-pedagogy-series-moving-wac-to-the-web-using-gsoles-oli-principles-to-creating-accessible-resources-for-online-writing-across-the-disciplines/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190627
DTSTAMP:20201029T231616Z
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SUMMARY:2019 WAC Summer Institute
DESCRIPTION:The WAC Summer Institute\, a three-day event\, will be held for the first time from June 23 to June 26\, 2019\, at the University of Denver\, for 30 participants. \nPurpose\nThe Institute’s primary goal will be to assist new and prospective leaders of WAC/WID or similar initiatives in the US and internationally at planning and developing their programs. The Institute will also support experienced directors who face new challenges or wish to expand\, update\, or revitalize their programs. \nTheme\nThe Institute’s guiding theme will be building sustainable\, high-impact WAC programs. The agenda will include workshops on understanding\, planning\, developing\, and leading programs as well as small group meetings that provide mentoring and networking opportunities. Participants will also have opportunities to consult individually with Institute leaders. The specific issues to be addressed in the workshops and small group meetings will be based on participants’ interests and goals for attending as described on the application form. There will also be ample unscheduled time for participants to share their situations and aspirations informally. \nRegistration\nRegistration opens November 5th at 1:00 pm EST. \nIf you missed out registering for the Institute\, please add your name to the waiting list. If slots open\, you will be contacted according to the order on the list. \nCosts\nThe $500 registration fee includes a Sunday evening reception; breakfast\, lunch\, and snack breaks on Monday\, Tuesday\, and Wednesday; and an institute dinner on Monday. Optional social events will be offered at an additional cost. \nRooms are available in the residence halls at the cost of $167.89 plus 14.75% tax (this price covers all three nights). For those wishing to stay in a hotel or other accommodations\, light rail connects campus and downtown. \nRegistration Waiting List\nIf you are unable to register because all slots are filled\, please sign up for the waiting list; there is no charge for doing so. If slots open\, you will be contacted according to the order on the list. \nTo receive a full refund\, should you need to cancel your reservation\, you must contact us no later than May 15th. If you must cancel after that date\, we will not be able to offer a refund. \nWho Should Attend\nWe have designed the Institute primarily to help new and prospective leaders of WAC/WID and similar initiatives in the US and internationally plan\, develop\, and assess their programs. The Institute is also designed to support experienced program directors who face new challenges or wish to update\, expand\, or revitalize their current programs. \nWhat Participants Will Gain\nThe Institute’s guiding theme is building sustainable\, high-impact WAC programs. The agenda will include interactive workshops\, as well as small group sessions that address issues specific to certain schools. \nMindful that in order to flourish each WAC program must fit comfortably in its own institutional context\, we will help each participant develop ways to adapt general principals and strategies to the participant’s own campus. \nParticipants will be able to consult individually with Institute leaders and share their situations and aspirations with one another in formal and informal settings. All should expect to leave with clear goals and practical strategies for building or strengthening their own programs. \nScholarships\nWe are able to offer one graduate student scholarship. The graduate organization WAC-GO will handle the application details and will select the recipient. More information on the application process and criteria will be forthcoming on this site. \nQuestions? Suggestions?\nWe invite questions and suggestions. Please feel welcome to contact co-chairs Jeff Galin (JGALIN@fau.edu) or Chris Anson (chris_anson@ncsu.edu) or any member of the planning group \nPaul Anderson anderspv@miamioh.edu\nVicki Tolar Burton vicki.tolarburton@oregonstate.edu\nRichard Colby (local chair) richard.colby@du.edu\nDoug Hesse (local chair) douglas.hesse@du.edu\nMike Palmquist mike.palmquist@colostate.edu\nTeresa Redd tredd@howard.edu\nAlisa Russell a.russell@ku.edu\nTerry Myers Zawacki tzawacki@gmu.edu
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/2019-wac-summer-institute/
CATEGORIES:Summer Institute
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