BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association for Writing Across the Curriculum - ECPv6.17.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Association for Writing Across the Curriculum X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wacassociation.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Association for Writing Across the Curriculum REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20180101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20200308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20201101T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20210314T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20211107T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20220313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20221106T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T153000 DTSTAMP:20230720T150938Z CREATED:20210908T185935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T150938Z UID:4367-1632319200-1632324600@wacassociation.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210804 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210808 DTSTAMP:20210916T045802Z CREATED:20201022T215119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T045802Z UID:2522-1628035200-1628380799@wacassociation.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/bigstock-Boulder-Colorado-July-th-360597574.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210615T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210615T170000 DTSTAMP:20210611T235817Z CREATED:20210611T234605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210611T235817Z UID:4168-1623771000-1623776400@wacassociation.org 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  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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-3.56.25-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210514T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210514T140000 DTSTAMP:20210526T153813Z CREATED:20210501T164835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T153813Z UID:4098-1620990000-1621000800@wacassociation.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/bigstock-Group-Of-Students-Learning-Tog-374693791.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T153000 DTSTAMP:20210526T154413Z CREATED:20210303T220813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T154413Z UID:3771-1618583400-1618587000@wacassociation.org 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/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/bigstock-Man-Working-From-Home-Having-O-359018746.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210401T153000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210401T170000 DTSTAMP:20220107T233231Z CREATED:20210322T064348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220107T233231Z UID:4017-1617291000-1617296400@wacassociation.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/patrick-perkins-ETRPjvb0KM0-unsplash-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201113T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201113T163000 DTSTAMP:20210224T010914Z CREATED:20201111T171029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210224T010914Z UID:3243-1605279600-1605285000@wacassociation.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Jeff-Galin-speaking-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200917 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200918 DTSTAMP:20201123T214248Z CREATED:20200917T152200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201123T214248Z UID:1715-1600300800-1600387199@wacassociation.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/bigstock-High-School-Or-College-Student-370834639-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200507 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200508 DTSTAMP:20201123T213548Z CREATED:20200507T211707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201123T213548Z UID:2499-1588809600-1588895999@wacassociation.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/bigstock-pretty-female-college-student-16440110.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200417 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200418 DTSTAMP:20201123T215346Z CREATED:20200417T211019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201123T215346Z UID:2494-1587081600-1587167999@wacassociation.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bigstock-Young-Student-Watching-Lesson-361588033.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200221 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200222 DTSTAMP:20201123T214818Z CREATED:20200222T010557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201123T214818Z UID:2819-1582243200-1582329599@wacassociation.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bigstock-The-Young-Man-Writing-On-A-Whi-387249577.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191116 DTSTAMP:20201123T215015Z CREATED:20191115T222457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201123T215015Z UID:2504-1573776000-1573862399@wacassociation.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/elizabeth-first-year.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191016 DTSTAMP:20201111T204314Z CREATED:20191015T152624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T204314Z UID:1718-1571097600-1571183999@wacassociation.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/gsole-logo-transparent_1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190623 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190627 DTSTAMP:20201029T231616Z CREATED:20201022T214844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201029T231616Z UID:2515-1561248000-1561593599@wacassociation.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wacassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/bigstock-239628715.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Jeff Galin%2C Florida Atlantic University":MAILTO:JGALIN@fau.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR