It sounds as if you've got some good advice already, Roberta. I'll just add what the situation here is, in case there's anything you can glean from it. For some time a WAC group of interested faculty has been meeting on this campus, and supported one another in various efforts to build writing in the discipline into their particular courses. Presentations are occasionally given by faculty on their various activities. The WAC group is seen (and I think rightly) as the right bottom-up way to go. Enough momentum was generated over a few years that Senate has officially endorsed the idea of implementing WAC. A new subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Teaching has been spawned, rejoicing in the name of WIC for Writing Initiatives Committee, which is to bring together representatives of the university constituents who "do writing" -- the WAC group, which continues to meet informally; the English Department writing programme; the Writing Resource Centre (under Student Affairs); Continuing Education (where non-credit courses are located). It is, I think, quite a good structure, basking in Senate approval, facilitating and co-ordinating communication among the various interested and committed parties. You will notice, however, that the "structure" is promising -- since the committee has not been struck yet, I can't comment on how it works in practice. The downside of the piecemeal approach is that there is no one whose full-time concern is WAC; development will proceed unevenly when, as happened this year, most of the WAC group dispersed -- a resignation, a maternity leave, two sabbaticals, a sessional finished --, and when the collective energy of faculty has been directed elsewhere by more immediate needs, such as the government's push to "rationalize" Nova Scotia's universities. (Announcement of our fate is due in September.) Cheers, Susan ********************************************************************** Susan Drain 902 457 6220 Chair, English Department FAX 445 3960 Mount Saint Vincent University Halifax, NS B3M 2J6 [log in to unmask] Canada Note change of address from [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************