Interdisciplinary Writing Committee

C29F

 

Areas of Committee Concern

The Interdisciplinary Writing Committee is concerned with the development of writing and thinking in every discipline and at every academic level.

Membership

  • Director of the Writing Across the University, Chair
  • Writing Center Director
  • One teaching faculty representative from each of the schools and College of Arts and Sciences divisions: Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, Social Sciences, Science/Math, Arts/Humanities, Love School of Business, School of Communications, and School of Health Sciences

Policies and Procedures

  • With the exception of the Chair and Associate Director, each committee member normally serves a two-year term.
  • Committee membership rotates among departments, when possible.
  • Committee members recommend successors at the end of their terms, and the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs appoints new members.
  • The committee meets on a monthly basis, or more frequently as necessary.

Responsibilities

  • To foster the development of writing and thinking in every discipline and at every academic level
  • To serve as an advisory body for the director of the writing program
  • To report to the committee the interests and concerns of the departments they represent, and report to their departments the committee's business and concerns