Present:  Matthews, Snavely, Cassidy, Montenero, Marshall, Steege

The meeting came to order at 12:20.

The following courses were approved as WI courses for 2009-2010:

SOCW 220, Fangmeier
POLS 290, Marshall
POLS 291, Marshall

Other items were discussed.

The meeting adjourned at 12:50.

WAC Meeting Minutes
3/9/09

Present: Matthews, Snavely, Marshall, Cassidy, Preston, Steege, West, Keller, Hanna.

The meeting was called to order at 12:15.

The minutes from February 23rd were not presented for approval.

Rick Matthews addressed the issue of the fall retreat. Certification training will be necessary, and we will do this on our own this year, without Marty Townsend’s input. Scheduling must be arranged to work with the Western Heritage retreat as well as other August training sessions/retreats. Rick will keep the committee informed as the schedules are decided.

Mark Snavely will cross check the fall 09 W.I. listings from the Registrar with the committees list to see that all W.I. courses are properly listed for registration.

The following courses were approved for W.I.:

ASNS 400 – Jim Lochtefeld
ML 311 – Cyganiac/Loewen

CLAS 245 – Renaud/Vogt was approved for renewal.

Waiver requests:

Carly Crittendon – denied
Beth Robbins – approved
Andrew Steeves – approved

The next meeting will be Monday, March 23rd.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Jean Preston

WAC Meeting Minutes
Monday, February 23th 2009
12:10 to 1:00, Lentz Hall 332
Abby Hanna, Ryan Ringhand, David Steege, Mark Snavely, Rick Matthews, Anne Cassidy, Ed Montennaro, Barbara Short
I. Approval of Minutes from December 8th meeting : approved. (https://wac.carthage.edu/)

II. New course proposals
• Marion Rothstein: Fall 09 proposal, French 308 (Barb contacted by email.)
• Julie Dahlstrom: Rick talked to her and she will not have to resubmit the proposal; previous request passed.

IV. Waiver Requests (Ryan Ringhand & Rick Matthews)
• Michele Oksa: email confirmation from Diane Keller: information systems major: this senior seminar isn’t listed as writing intensive ISYS 490. We will table this case until we can talk to Mark. The problem seems to be systemic. Rick will contact Tom Groleau about why this is not writing intensive in the day program, Mike West in the night school. Mark Mahoney may want to make this a writing intensive section. Last semesters group may need to be retroactive approval.
• Joe Stubenvoll, Matthew Tokasz, Rachel Johnson: Classics 300 asking for a waiving within their major. All broadfield majors or history class. They can take a writing intensive class within one of those majors. Denied.
• Jacqueline Spies: BIOL 251 Cell and Molecular Biology; transfer student. Retroactive request for graduation to waive. When she took the class in Spring 2007, it was not writing intensive. Pat Pfaffle will be contacted by Rick to make sure students understand why this case is waived. Advising can help other students that may also have this same issue.
• Elizabeth Polansky: adult students with elementary education with math minor. She brought in 125 credits. Did anyone ask about getting her writing intensive classes? Did the advisor make it clear about the writing intensive requirements? How are incoming adult students being addressed to complete their writing intensive classes? Symposium is a different committee. Table request for both requirements. Planning on graduating Fall, 09. Mark Snavely will talk with her on Thurs.
• Who will sit on this committee from adult education?

V. Fall retreat: next meeting

VI. Unfinished Business
Next meeting: March 9 at 12:10.

The following courses were approved via e-vote in January of 2009.

Engl 303: Creative Writing, Jean Preston
Engl 303: Creative Writing, Annette Duncan
Engl 375: History and Structure of the English Language, Leonard Schulze

WAC Meeting Agenda
Monday, February 9th 2009
12:10 to 1:00, Lentz Hall 332
Attendance: Ryan Ringhands, Rick Matthews, Jonathan Marshall, Jean Preston, Anne Cassidy, Mark Snavely, David Steege, Barbara Short, Ed Montenarro,
I. Approval of Minutes from December 8th meeting: approved (https://wac.carthage.edu/)

II. New Western Heritage requirement: what will Carthage accept as a transfer?

Email:
Rick,

As we discussed this morning, I’d like to give the green
light to the Registrar to accept the following as transfer
equivalencies, but I first wanted to get your feedback
regarding the writing components.

For WESTERN HERITAGE 110
One English comp course and one Western civ before 1500
course;

for WESTERN HERITAGE 111
One English comp course and one Western civ after 1500
course.

A note on two unlikely circumstances for either 110 or 111:
1) if the Western civ course were writing intensive
according to WAC guidelines, then that course alone would
be sufficient and no English comp course would be
necessary; 2) a writing intensive liberal arts course
comparable to Western Heritage would be sufficient, and
neither Western civ nor English comp would be necessary.

Looking forward to your feedback.

Chris
Committee decision: Transfer Students need both Western Civ and English Comp to get credit for each Heritage section bringing classes in Carthage from another college or university. We approve the writing intensive part of this proposal.

III. New course proposals—Mark
Julie Dalhstrom—Physics 271 for this current spring 09 semester: new part time physics professor and hasn’t yet been through the workshop. “Revisions will be accepted.” What does this mean? No informal writing. More clarity needed on the process and how the building process between 5 major writings take place. Passed with consultation and will expect a new proposal to come through with revisions. Meeting with Rick and he will contact her.
Jonathan Bruning—CDM 345 for Spring 2010: Lots of revision and feedback, significant proportion. Approved. (contacted by email BJS)
Wallace—English 303 for Summer 2009/2010: we have approved this course for other instructors. Lots of writing. Approved. (contacted by email BJS)

IV. Waiver Requests (Ryan Ringhand & Rick Matthews)
Michele Oksa: asking for release from writing intensive course in her major for adult education Information Systems. Provisional no pending graduation date.

Marguerite Harris: asking for a waiver from the religion requirement to graduate this fall due to an injury. No other classes in religion exist. Waiver approved.

Michele Pfarr: asking for a retroactive writing intensive credit for EXSS 270. Credit approved.

V. Fall retreat: Not a lot of new hires; resource allocation issues; western heritage issues. We will meet on Monday, Feb. 23 at 12:10pm LH 332 to discuss this topic.

VI. Unfinished Business

VII. New Business

Adjourned at 1pm. Submitted by: Barbara Short

Writing Across the Curriculum Committee Meeting

12-08-08, CC 117 at 1pm-2pm

Attendance:

Rick Matthews, Jonathan Marx, Jean Preston, Ann Cassidy, Chris Renoir, Barbara Short, Ryan Ringhands, Mark Snavely

Approval of minutes from November 10^th

Meeting with Mike West has handled by Rick. Mike has asked to ask depts. to get courses that are writing intensive. We can’t tell dept. about the courses; that is up to Mike and the dept. The WAC is an oversight committee. Training for adjuncts in the adult program and advising needs to be addressed in Adult Education so that the same writing requirements are fulfilled between day and adult education program. It is not clear if the dept. or adult education or the two together who are responsible for recruiting ACE WI instructor and deem courses as such.

Business Senior Seminar and Adult Education: Business student is denied a petition. Adult education was consulted. Business dept. has found a course to cover the problem.  Management 490 Rick Fields is teaching the course (adjunct and not certified). He has to submit the proposal. Grant him a waiver to teach it now and then go through the training in the fall. This move helps Adult education and Business dept. so maybe we will have fewer waivers.  So moved and approved by the committee.

New Course Proposals:

Pam Smiley renewal:  English 405 Senior Seminar for next fall 09; approved

Taking over for Maria Carrig who is supposed to teach it; no changes from Maria Carrig’s file/course.

Lynn Loewen: Spanish Senior Seminar 401; approved via e-vote for spring 09.

Waiver Requests:

Nicole Paielli: She took the business senior seminar before it was writing intensive. Now she is asked to take it again because it is writing intensive. Advising issue. Passed.

Andrew Steeves: adult education student; course descriptions from other colleges. Denied. We are not substituting courses.

Jay Grossert: Transferred in 2007 and not asking for his course in the major to be waived.  Why can’t he take a writing intensive course next semester? Senior Seminar will be one writing intensive. He didn’t make the case that he can’t take a course this spring. Ryan confirms that he is an ACE student. No advisors signature. Denied

Jason Mihelich: Business administration who is yet to take Management 490. Applied to wave both requirements. Attachment is not here. General education is being offered this summer and dept. requirement will occur in the spring. Denied

Matthew Yonkers: ACE; same situation with Management 490. He has been taking credits since fall 07. We are not substituting or looking at courses again. Advising issue. How many writing intensive ACE classes have been involved in the adult education since 2007? Waive the one for the major. There should be one over the summer; he could graduate four credits short.

We will anticipate another meeting in early Feb. 09.

Unfinished Business

New Business

Respectfully, Barbara Short

The following course/instructor pairs were approved as WI courses for the 2008-2009 academic year.

MLAN 401 Spanish Senior Seminar, Lynn Loewen

WAC Meeting Minutes
11/10/08

The meeting began at 1:00. Minutes from the October 14th meeting were approved after correcting the misspelling of Chris Renaud’s name.

Temple Burling’s Heritage II Writing Intensive Course renewal was approved.

Rick Matthews will contact Temple Burling to reiterate the agreement between the WAC Committee and the Heritage Program regarding writing intensive expectations for all Heritage courses in exchange for blanket approval of these courses as Writing Intensive.

W.I. waivers were granted for the following students:

Heather Johnson
Jennifer Newell
Eric Carson
Elliot Kist
Melissa Chabkian

The W.I. requirement was not waived for Beth Robbins. The committee determined there is time for the Business Department to put the necessary courses in place for Ms. Robbins to complete in time for graduation. Ryan Ringhand will communicate the decision to the student. Rick Matthews will speak with Tom Groleau and Mike West to encourage both the Business Department and Adult Education to address the issue of Writing Intensive courses as soon as possible.

Rick Matthews will also speak with Admissions to insure that correct information is being given to incoming students, particularly transfer students.

The meeting adjourned at 2:00 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Jean Preston

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.