Winner of the 2021 Association for Writing Across the Curriculum/WAC Clearinghouse award for Best WAC Monograph
A 2008 survey of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs found that nearly half of those identified in a 1987 survey no longer existed twenty years later, pointing to a need for an approach to WAC administration that leads to programs that persist over time. In Sustainable WAC, current or former WAC program directors Michelle Cox, Jeffrey R. Galin, and Dan Melzer introduce a theoretical framework for WAC program development that takes into account the diverse contexts of today’s institutions of higher education, aids WAC program directors in thinking strategically as they develop programs, and integrates a focus on program sustainability.
Informed by theories that illuminate transformative change within systems—complexity, systems, social network, resilience, and sustainable development theories—and illustrated with vignettes by WAC directors across the country, this book lays out principles, strategies, and tactics to help WAC program directors launch, relaunch, or reinvigorate programs within the complicated systems of today’s colleges and universities. Acknowledging that every WAC program grows out of a specific institutional context and grassroots movement, this book is a must-read for everyone currently involved in a WAC program or interested in exploring the possibility of one at their college or university.
About the author
Dan Melzer is Director of First-Year Composition at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of the scholarly books Assignments across the Curriculum: A National Study of College Writing and Sustainable WAC: Launching and Developing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs (co-authored with Michelle Cox and Jeff Galin). He is co-author with John C. Bean of the 3rd edition of Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. He has also published two composition textbooks, Everything’s a Text (co-authored with Deborah Coxwell Teague) and Exploring College Writing: Reading, Writing, and Researching Across the Curriculum.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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