News, Events, and Calls

We publish news from the WAC and writing communities. Visit to catch up on upcoming conferences, see calls for proposals, notices of newly published books and other scholarly projects, stories of WAC programs and practitioners in the news.

Christine Tulley, professor of English and the academic career development coordinator for the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Findlay, shares smart advice on creating a compelling tenure and promotion narrative. One of her prompts for faculty includes looking at their contributions to writing assessment and writing across the curriculum.

The WEC Institute and WEC Symposium  will be held April 18-20th at the University of Minnesota.

The search for associate editors for our book series is now closed and applications are under review. 

The International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference will be held at Auburn University on June 4-6, 2018. Registrations are being accepted.

A working group has been meeting for the past several months to develop a framework for the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC).

The Writing Across the Curriculum Graduate Organization (WAC-GO) seeks to increase mentoring to and support for graduate students with an interest in Writing Across the Curriculum research, program administration, or teaching.

Asao B. Inoue’s book, Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future, has been selected as the winner of both the 2017 CCCC Outstanding Book Award and the Council of Writing Program Administrators Outstanding Book Award.