Dear WAC SG colleagues,
I’m writing to you as the new Chair for the WAC Standing Group, and I’m thrilled that my first duty is to welcome our new Incoming Chair, Meghan Hancock of Marshall University.
I’m further thrilled to continue working with Ashley Holmes (Oregon State) as she moves into the Outgoing Chair role.
Last, and certainly not least, I extend immense gratitude to Liz Wardle (Miami Ohio) who will be cycling off of this SG but who we know we can continue to count on given her expertise, generosity, and leadership in our field.
Three cheers for great chairs! 🙂 (and if you like cheering and greatness, I hope you’ll consider joining this team when we come looking for a new leadership in 2027!)
I also have the honor of announcing the call for our Sponsored Panel at 4C27. Please see below and feel free to share with any colleagues who may be interested.
All the best,
Kristi
CFP
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 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 related to Writing Across the Curriculum, broadly understood to include WAC, WID, CAC, WEC, and other cross-curricular initiatives that support writing in the disciplines. We welcome proposals that address how WAC programs are being sustained, expanded, or reimagined across institutional contexts, particularly as programs respond to changing student writing practices, emerging technologies, and shifting institutional conditions.
Possible topics include:
- Building, sustaining, or launching WAC programs
- Relationships among WAC, WID, writing-intensive curricula, and general education
- Instructor labor, course caps, and feedback practices in writing-intensive courses
- Roles of graduate instructors, graders, or writing fellows in WAC initiatives
- Faculty development and assignment design across the disciplines
- Shifts in student writing, research, and reading practices
- Teaching judgment, inquiry, and disciplinary research in the age of generative AI
- Multimodal or experimental approaches to writing across the curriculum
- Mentoring, collaboration, and advocacy to sustain WAC work
We welcome both individual proposals and full panel proposals.
Please read the CFP for CCCC 2027 here. It is not necessary to explicitly reference the conference theme in your title or proposal, but you may wish to consider how your work connects to the conference’s broader focus on “Design Writing Futures.” 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?
- Proposal level (two-year, four-year, graduate level)
If proposing a full panel, please also include the full names, institutions, and email addresses 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 2027 WAC Standing Group Sponsored Panel, please email your proposal to Kristi Girdharry (kgirdharry) by May 1 at 5pm EST. The three chairs (current, incoming, and outgoing) will review the proposals, make a decision about accepted panelists, and notify everyone who proposed by May 15. If your panel is not selected, you will still have time to submit to Cs through the usual proposal mechanism by the deadline of May 27.
Please reach out with any questions and forward this call to others who may be interested.
Ashley Holmes, Outgoing Standing Group Chair
Kristi Girdharry, Standing Group Chair
Meghan Hancock, Incoming Standing Group Chair
Kristi Girdharry, Ph.D.
[she/her/hers]
Associate Teaching Professor of English
Arts and Humanities Division
Director of the Writing Center
Babson College
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