COMMITTEE: Writing Across the Curriculum

MEETING DATE: January 22, 1998

PERSON PRESIDING: Lynn Eudey

ACTIONS OF MEETTNG:

Description of action
*Approval of the minutes from the September 25th, 1997 
meeting were tabled until the next meeting. Rita will run off 
copies of the minutes and they will be circulated with the 
minutes from the January 22nd meeting.

Minutes from the October 23, 1997 meeting were approved.

Description of action:
*A discussion was held regarding the changing of the order 
of the agenda in order to place priority items first to 
accommodate those who could not remain at the meeting 
until 5 p.m. The discussion also raised the question as to 
whether or not the duration of the meeting time should be
11/2 hours ( as opposed to 2 hours or more) to enable full 
participation on the part of all members. Committee 
members agreed that the first part of agenda should be 
restructured to include items which needed discussion and 
voting at the beginning of all meetings with discussion
regarding general issues following. 

Motion carried to restructure the agenda as stated above.

Description of action:
*The restructured agenda included 7 WI proposals for 
consideration and discussion. The results were as follows:

WOST 4200 - Women's Studies - "Feminist Theory" - 
Instructor Gay Wilentz

Committee failed to approve as WI due to insufficient 
evidence of appropriate applicability to
approved WI model.

EXSS 3850 - Exercise Science - "Kinesiology" - Instructor 
Tibor Hortobagyi and Paul DeVita 

Committee failed to approve as WI due to insufficient 
evidence of appropriate applicability to approved WI model.

History 3000 - "The Nature and Methods of History" 

Tabled due to lack of WI Course Proposal form. therefore 
lack information regarding proposal.


BIOL 4300 & 4301 - "Ecosystem Ecology and Ecosystem 
Ecology Laboratory" - Mark M. Brinson

Tabled and motion amended that Rita will check with 
professor regarding clarification regarding supplementary 
writing ( lab logs, etc.) which represent WI efforts

PSYC 4280 - "History of Psychology" - Rand B. Evans - 

Motion carried for designation of PSYC 4280 as WI.

ECON 3750 -( See memo dated October 29, 1997 circulated 
by Rita to all members)

Motion carried for designation of ECON 3750 as WI.

ECON 3630 - "Health Economics" - Edward J. Schumacher - 

Motion carried for designation of ECON 3630 as WI.

SPAN 2103 - "Review of Grammar" (*Note new name and 
new # - SPAN 2330 

"Intermediate Spanish Composition and Review of 
Grammar" - .) Motion carried for designation
of SPAN 2103 (SPAN 2330) as WI.

Description of action
Terri Woods had sent to the Committee proposals for new 
WI models.  Committee members should review this 
information before the next meeting and also
bring any ideas for other models.

Description of action
Rita provided the Committee with the Director's Report and 
relayed the following information:

Rita has meet with faculty across campus and found 
responses to be very enlightening. She will continue to meet 
with faculty and prepare a summary report of concerns and 
benefits.

One example of information gathered through these 
meetings involves the need in the Foreign Language 
Department for software to further support WI efforts.

The Student Opinion Survey will be helpful in gathering 
information regarding responses to WI courses.

Francine Rees will publish information regarding WI and 
WAC in the February or March issues of "Pieces of Eight."

Do we need new policy guidelines regarding deadlines? If 
so, this information needs to be published and accessible to 
faculty as the process usually entails a 2 semester time line.  
We may also need to inform faculty regarding cover sheets, 
formats, and WI.

There were only 30 appeals from 2,000 WI participants in 
the first year.

Committee members were asked to think about approaches 
for informing faculty about guidelines and timelines in the 
process of a WI course proposal.

THE NEXT WAC MEETING WILL BE HELD 
FEBRUARY 26TH, 1998 AT 3 p.m. in
Rawl Annex #142.

Committee preparation for next meeting:

1. Review WI Model Proposals submitted by Terri Woods
2. Review minutes dated September 25, 1997