WAC Week
Upcoming Events
Towards Place- and Land-Based Writing Across the Curriculum Programming
This presentation reflects on a community-based writing across the curriculum partnership in the Bronx, NY. The project brought together student archival researchers, a community archive,..
- Date: February 2, 2026
- Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Using Writing Across the Curriculum to Foster Learning and Critical Thinking
This interactive workshop will explore the ways in which writing across the curriculum activities (WAC) –in particular, writing to learn and writing to engage assignments — can support..
- Date: February 2, 2026
- Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Classroom AI Policies for a Writing-Enriched Curriculum: Balancing Assessment, Integrity and Learning
As generative AI becomes more commonplace, faculty can be left wondering how writing can maintain its place in the classroom to support learning and assessment. This workshop..
- Date: February 2, 2026
- Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Transfer, Reflection, and Writing Across the Curriculum in the Age of Generative AI
This workshop explores strategies for helping students make meaningful connections across writing experiences in an era shaped by generative AI. Drawing on research in writing..
- Date: February 3, 2026
- Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: Virtual
Indispensible Impact: Graduate Students and Writing Across the Curriculum
Join this panel for a discussion about the important role graduate students play in supporting meaningful writing across the curriculum and the benefits and challenges that..
- Date: February 3, 2026
- Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Writing Assessments to Maximize Student Learning
Writing is a powerful tool for learning, but just because students are writing doesn’t necessarily mean that they are learning. How instructors conceptualize writing and..
- Date: February 4, 2026
- Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: Virtual
Assigning Course Texts: Meaningful Text Selection and Engagement to Support Student Learning
This workshop will describe common reasons students do not read assigned course texts and provide ways to support students in engaging with course texts in..
- Date: February 4, 2026
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Bringing it home: Feasible strategies for integrating relevant writing activity into the courses you teach
Recognizing the important role that writing plays in academic knowledge and learning is one thing. Figuring out how to incorporate meaningful writing activity into already-busy..
- Date: February 4, 2026
- Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Virtual
WAC as a Vehicle for Critical Thinking, Community, and Joy in the Classroom
This workshop focuses on the partnership between Dr. Annie Krieg, an art historian, and Annie Halseth, a composition instructor, as they collaborated to integrate Writing..
- Date: February 5, 2026
- Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: Virtual
Making Meaning of Your Emerging Minority-Serving Institutional Designation Through Writing Prompts in the Disciplines
In this session, Dr. Caleb González will discuss the meaning of culturally sustaining pedagogical (CSP) frameworks in the design of writing prompts and write to..
- Date: February 5, 2026
- Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Writing to Persuade: Constructing Evidence-Based Arguments In The Natural Sciences
Natural scientists communicate with peers through argumentative text. Hence, learning how to both interpret and construct written scientific arguments is critical for students in the..
- Date: February 6, 2026
- Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: Virtual
From First-Year Writing to Writing in the Major: Enhancing Student Self-Efficacy for Writing Across the Curriculum
Understanding how the First-Year Writing curriculum relates to other courses in their degree is often a point of friction for undergraduate students. Yet, when instructors..
- Date: February 6, 2026
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Writing to Discern: Naming What We Value in the Age of GenAI
In the age of generative artificial intelligence (genAI), many faculty find themselves in an "unsettled middle," seeing both potential benefits and real risks in the..
- Date: February 6, 2026
- Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Virtual