WAC: October 20, 2008 BJS
To access the blog: wac.carthage.edu
Attendance: Anne Cassidy, Jean Preston, Ed Montanaro, Jonathan Marshall, Chris Renaud, Mark Snavely, David Steege, Rick Matthews, Barbara Short.
Minutes are approved from last meeting on Oct. 6th.
Course approval for Writing Intensive:
· Laura Rodman Huaracha: CDM 315 History of Graphic Design: approved
· Tom Powers: Criminal Justice 302 American Courts: approved with Rick’s mentoring
· Anne Cassidy: ART 306 Masterpieces in Asian Art and Architecture: approved
Waiver Requests:
· Kelsey Stewart: waiving one dept. requirement bio 251 is offered now as writing intensive and wasn’t when the student took it in the past. Taught the same. Transitional issue, accepted.
· Melissa Chakkian: resubmit to make the case that the WI course requirement applies to her, denied.
· Laura Potter: waiving one dept. requirement bio 251 is offered now as writing intensive and wasn’t when the student took it in the past. Taught the same. Transitional issue, accepted
· JoAnna Huszla: waiving one dept. requirement bio 251 is offered now as writing intensive and wasn’t when the student took it in the past. Taught the same. Transitional issue, accepted
· Sarai Nieto: Spanish major who has already taken the courses before they were writing intensive in the major, accepted the waiver request.
Report on Fall 2008 WAC workshops:
Marty Townsend’s input and report by Rick Matthews: Part of a larger year end report. Number of faculty and most of faculty are made eligible to teach WI classes. We will talk more in the spring about who needs to get into the program and specialty workshops. The report summarized our WAC meeting with Marty. Rick’s role is to make sure everything gets done with faculty and communication occurs. Rick met with Judy Schaumberg. 1) Webpage for WAC will be designed. People don’t know what is going on: goal of the webpage. Faculty, students, transfers will be served. 2) Talk to development dept. to create a summary sheet for students. Adult education is an issue. Rick talked to Mike. They need courses on the books to serve adult students. Seven majors served in adult ed. and most don’t have WI in adult education. It’s the responsibility of the dept. to make sure classes are WI at night. Regular faculty may teach in adult education. There is money from adult ed. to pay for training of adjuncts and faculty to take and teach workshops. Faculty may be asked to teach some of the workshops before next Fall. We are in phase 2 of development; now we are moving toward a stabilized program. There are over 90 classes this academic year identified as WI. Working with dept. chairs will be important. Assessment by the dept. chairs will be crucial to make sure objectives for the dept. are being met. Dept. that don’t have WI courses: athletic training, Asian studies, great ideas; Rick will be contacting them. Transition for adding WI designation has been smooth because faculty are doing writing already in their classes. More strategic and long-term thinking is hard to do with the committee when we are doing tedious work.
Form for departments to add WI designation to courses after they have been taught: create a simple form for dept. chairs to fill out and request, which would create a written record.
Next meeting is yet to be set.