COMMITTEE:               Writing Across the Curriculum
 
MEETING DATE:            February 23, 1995
 
PERSON PRESIDING:        Mary Schmidt, Vice-Chair
 
DESCRIPTION OF ACTION:
 
Minutes approved as read.
 
WAC Directors Report:
 
1.  Meeting with Dr. Yarbrough: The transfer memo was supported
and been distributed (see 1/26 minutes) Funding for a WAC seminar
was supported (This included $ for refreshments.) A final date is
still uncertain but the last week in March is a possibility.
Suggestions from Dr. Yarbrough were: Department Chairs be
invited, and the event be moved to a larger venue, i.e..
Mendenhall Great Room.
 
2.  Meeting with Bobbie Austin -  Referred to Dorothy Muller.
 
3.  Meeting with Dorothy Muller- recommended that this committee
modify the language in Undergraduate catalog. Discussion centered
around: l)how the committee is to interpret the "writing
intensiveness of courses that count for l, 2, 3, 4, or 5 semester
hours and 2) how the catalog wording should be altered to be
clearer. It was finally determined that only a clarification in
the wording of the Wl requirement was necessary to properly
interpret it by this committee and the office of the registrar
and avoid any confusion across campus.
 
Description of action: Motion: Revise page 52, Section 5: General
Requirements for Graduation, to read the following: .... To do
so, each student must complete a minimum of 12 s.h. of writing
intensive courses, including ENGL 1100, 1200; at least 3 s.h. of
writing intensive courses in the major; and any other writing
intensive course(s) of the student's choice.... (Poe/Gordon)
Motion carried unanimously
 
It was the consensus of the committee that this was an editorial
change only, therefore Senate approval was not necessary.
 
Assigned additional duties to: Reaves - Submit catalog revision
to Caroline Ayers to be included in the revised catalog.
 
4.  Meeting with Emilie Kane in the Office of Sponsored Programs
re: grants for WAC program -  Several suggestions were made: (1)
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and (2) team up with other in the NC
system for other grants. Scavo made the suggestion that perhaps
the Southern Regional Education Board could be a source for grant
money.
 
5.  Dr. Reaves asked if there would be support from this
committee for a WAC email listing. Discussion: There was
unanimous support for an email listing. Dr. Gordon agreed to
serve as "list administrator"  Perhaps this idea could be
expanded into a help line through the writing center and be
staffed by a graduate student. The idea will be taken up at a
later meeting after some initial groundwork is in place.
 
Approval of Wl course proposals. COMM 2200 Basic Reporting, COMM
3210 Advanced Reporting,  COMM 3221 Investigative Reporting, and
EHLT 4200 Environmental Health Management and Law.
 
POLS 4000 Political Leadership was not approved - members of the
committee questioned the amount of writing in the course.