Event: UC Virtual Open House Corrected Link

All,

I recently learned that the original link in the message below produced an error. The corrected link is https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/meeting/register/Fc0PbvuDRpqNvBrgnHAJbg.

Appreciate your help sharing this info and apologies for the second email,

Laura

From: Micciche, Laura (micciclr) <micciclr>
Date: Friday, October 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
To: Writing Studies Listserv <writingstudies-l>
Subject: #EVENT: University of Cincinnati Virtual Open House

Dear Colleagues,

Please share this email with interested students. The University of Cincinnati’s doctoral program in Rhetoric and Composition invites applications for fall 2026 admission! We are hosting an open house event during which current UC faculty and graduate students look forward to meeting prospective students and answering questions about the program and about life in Cincinnati:

Monday, October 20, 6:00-7:00pm EST registration link: https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsdeyrrzksGNAo8hfzIQj1Ql4DBcE9_jmf

Our application deadline is January 1 (no GRE or foreign language requirement). Program highlights at a glance:

Community:

High faculty to student ratio
Grad courses with students across tracks and departments (rhetcomp, creative writing, literary and cultural studies, professional writing, literacy studies)
Graduate student research colloquium every semester
Visiting scholar series (upcoming and recent: Amy Lueck, Chris Anson, Christina Cedillo, Bill Hart-Davidson, James Chase Sanchez, Kate Vieira, Carmen Kynard)
Annual graduate student conference hosted by composition program and organized by program GAs
Department houses the Lucille M. Schultz Archive of 19th Century Composition and Rhetoric Textbooks and Handbooks

Teaching:

Robust teacher-training program
Teach one course per term, with options after first year to teach non-composition courses (Advanced Composition for Teachers, Writing with Style, Digital Composing, Introduction to Copyediting & Publishing, Modern English Grammar, Topics in Rhetoric, and Business Writing, among others)
Remote summer teaching opportunities
Opportunities to teach and help grow curriculum in Disability Studies, Medical Humanities, Film and Media Studies, Environmental Studies

Professionalization:

Administrative positions in the Composition program and Academic Writing Center
Room in curriculum to pursue certificates in Professional Writing; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Guaranteed and competitive travel support
Generous internal and external competitive summer research support and competitive dissertation fellowships
Professionalization classes: job market, writing for publication, and dissertation writing
GAships in units across the university (among them, Taft Research Center, the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, the Graduate College, Institute for Research in Sensing)
Culture of graduate student collaboration (conference panels, book chapters, and articles)
Faculty track record of publishing in collaboration with graduate students and alumni (e.g., Composing Legacies, Revising Moves, Failure Pedagogies, and more)