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In 1987, Sue McLeod wrote to every college in the US and Canada inquiring
as to the existence and/or status of WAC programs.  The results of that
survey were published in various forms, including a _CCC's_ article
called "WAC: The Second Stage and Beyond."  Sue recently received a grant
from WPA to conduct a follow-up study, "Whither WAC?"; she will be
collaborating with me (Eric Miraglia) on this follow-up study in which we
hope to learn how WAC programs have changed in the eight years since the
first study.

We have two requests to make of those of you on the list.

1.  Due to the usual migration and remigration of WAC Directors and
others in charge of WAC programs, our eight-year-old list of names and
addresses is badly in need of updating.   We would like you to email the
name, title, address, phone/fax number, and email address of the person
at your institution who is in charge of your WAC program.  In exchange,
we will compile and sort the addresses and repost them to the entire list
in a manageable form so that everyone can have a copy of the updated
list.  (PLEASE SEND THESE RESPONSES TO [log in to unmask] WITH THE SUBJECT,
"WAC ADDRESSES.")

2.  In conjunction with this second study, we would like conduct a new
survey over the internet; this has the advantage of being free and fast
and it simplifies the data-entry process, especially where open-ended
questions are being asked.  Our question for all of you is this:  What
questions are *you* interested in asking about WAC programs across the
country?  What do you want to know about the status of WAC today, and
what aspects of WAC programs would be interesting to study
diachronically?  We will use your answers to this question to help us
create a new electronic survey, which we will then post.  (PLEASE SEND
THESE RESPONSES TO [log in to unmask] WITH THE SUBJECT, "WAC QUESTIONS.")
If you wish to see the text of the original survey, send a private
request to me and I'll be happy to email it to you.

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