I saw this article last week and thought, why is this news? It's been
happening at programs all over North America for more than a decade.
The pioneer in the idea, so far as I know, was Cornell. It's what
we've been doing in Engineering at Toronto for some time. I thought it
was just a slow week in Education news for them to publish that.
Rob Irish
Quoting "Tania S. Smith" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Just wondering if any colleagues on CASLL have similar things going on
> as are described here in this April 13th article... I got this link
> through the WPA listserv
>
> http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/13/denver
>
> Excerpts:
>
> "At the University of Denver this year, a new writing program
> <http://www.du.edu/writing/> is trying a combination of approaches.
> Freshmen are taking a series of three courses in successive quarters
> --- each with a distinct purpose. The first quarter courses are taught
> by faculty members in a range of disciplines, and the next two by a new
> cadre of lecturers hired this year.
>
> While not on the tenure track, the lecturers are far from the
> semester-to-semester model of employment used to staff many a writing
> course with adjuncts or graduate students. Their positions are full
> time, with benefits, and they are paid in the first quarter of the
> academic year to plan their courses, to work individually with students
> in the writing center, and to work as in-class consultants and
> one-on-one with professors on writing issues that come up in their
> courses."
>
>
> And here's why they were able to do this on such a large scale.
>
> "The Denver writing program is the outgrowth of a $10 million grant in
> 2004 from the Marsico Foundation, which stipulated that the funds be
> used to improve undergraduate education. Faculty committees studied
> various possible uses for the money and the full faculty voted (79
> percent in favor) to overhaul what had been a fairly traditional
> program in which freshmen took writing, but without a university-wide
> vision for what was supposed to be accomplished."
>
>
> --
> Tania S. Smith
> Assistant Professor
> Faculty of Communication & Culture
> University of Calgary
> http://www.ucalgary.ca/~smit
>
>
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