An Argument for Labor-Based Contract Grading with Dr. Kim Thompson
Teaching runs deep for Dr. Kim Thompson, whose passion for education was nurtured from a young age, inspired by their mother’s 43-year career as a high school English teacher. In...
Highlights
WAC Highlight: Critical Language Awareness Resource-Building Event
In the summer of 2024, faculty from diverse disciplines at ECU—including anthropology, communications, chemistry, child & family sciences, education, English, kinesiology, psychology, and theater & dance—came together for a...
WAC Highlight: Psychology Professor & Grad Student Win with Writing Collaboration
Congratulations to Dr. Jeannie Golden, Psychology professor and WAG participant, and her student Sarah Hayes for their recent award from the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Board of the Association...
WAC Highlight: Tyler Zobel
Link to article Some people don’t see problems; they see solutions. When his engineering teacher posed the challenge to reverse engineer a donated electric wheelchair, Tyler Zobel’s interest was...
WAC Academy 2024
The spring 2024 WAC Academy invited ten faculty members from Anthropology, Nursing, Public Health, Chemistry, Kinesiology, Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Business, and Communication to participate in this 6-week, face-to-face workshop....
Research in Writing: Artificial Intelligence
The University Writing Program will kick off its Research in Writing series in 2023 with our first invited speaker, Professor Bill Hart-Davidson (Michigan State), who will present a noon talk...
WAC Highlight: Writing Accountability Groups
There are a lot of reasons that writing doesn’t get done. The least important things in many faculty's evaluations (for example, teaching) have the greatest built-in accountability. Those things...
Research and Creative Achievement Week 2023 Each year, the Graduate School hosts the Research and Creative Achievement Week (RCAW) to showcase the work that students across campus are investing their...
Writing Across the Curriculum shares their newest workshop: Responding to Graduate Student Writers
Writing Across the Curriculum presents our newest workshop: Responding to Graduate Student Writers While feedback is crucial for effective writing, responding in a way that writers can learn from...
Writing Retreats: Spring Reflections
As part of our ongoing support for faculty and the development of their research and writing, each spring we take a trip to the outer banks of NC to write,...