Dear WAC Colleagues:
TheWAC Standing Group at CCCC has a guaranteed spot on the CCCC program agenda. As the current, incoming, and outgoing chairs of that standing group, we are writing now to invite you to submit a proposal for consideration for this panel. You may submit individual proposals or a full panel proposal.
Submissions should focus on research, theory, and/or practice around WAC, broadly understood to include WAC, WID, CAC, WEC, and other cross-curricular and cross-disciplinary initiatives focused on writing. Although we welcome any submissions that are meaningful for you in this moment, the 2025 Standing Group was particularly interested in hearing more about WAC programs’ biggest successes and challenges when navigating DEI constraints, resources and institutional buy-in, and generative AI; they were also interested in learning more about colleagues’ strategic collaborations and mentoring models to sustain both official and unofficial WAC work.
Please read the CFP for CCCC 2026, which is here. It is not required that you include terms from the CFP in your panel title. Instead of framing your proposal in terms of the theme “Conference,” the 2026 call invites users to “to share what you are working on right now, to offer up what contribution matters to you most.” Please follow the RFP guidelines and format when you send us proposals. Guidelines require:
- 160-character title (Character limits include spaces)
- 400-character proposal annotation (summary)
- 4,000-character proposal description
- Briefly describe the goals of the proposed session and the means by which those goals will be pursued. What should the audiences/participants take away from the session, and how will you help them accomplish that goal?
- Indication ofcluster
- Proposal level (two-year, four-year, graduate level)
Please also include full name, institution, and contact information for all panelists.
Please note that to be considered for the CCCC WAC SG Sponsored Panel, you need to be a member of the WAC Standing Group. Not a member yet? You can join here.
If you would like to submit a panel for consideration for the 2025 WAC Standing Group Sponsored Panel, please email your proposal to Ashley Holmes (ashley.holmes) by May 15 at 5pm PST. The three chairs (current, incoming, and outgoing) will review the proposals, make a decision about accepted panelists, and notify everyone who proposed by May 21. If your panel is not selected, you will still have time to submit to Cs through the usual proposal mechanism by the deadline of June.
Please reach out with any questions, and forward this call to others who may be interested.
Thank you!
Ashley Holmes, Standing Group Chair
Kristi Girdharry, Incoming Standing Group Chair
Elizabeth Wardle, Outgoing Standing Group Chair
Ashley J. Holmes, Ph.D. (she/her), Associate Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning
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