Sharing Howe Innovations Beyond Miami
The innovations happening in the Howe Center are being shared and taken up by others across the U.S. The International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC) held at Clemson University in June, showcased some of this work.
Sharing Howe Innovations Beyond Miami
The innovations happening in the Howe Center are being shared and taken up by others across the U.S. The International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC) held at Clemson University in June, showcased some of this work.
The Howe Faculty Writing Fellows Program has now become an important part of the professional development offered in the 10-institution Maricopa Community College System. Drs. Alex Arreguin and Stacy Wilson have now offered their version of the Fellows Program (titled “Literacy Partners”) two summers in a row, offering it to 54 people in 2023. Howe Graduate Assistant Director Rena Perez flew to Arizona to help them implement the summer program. In June, faculty participants from the Maricopa system joined Drs. Arreguin and Wilson to present with Howe Director Elizabeth Wardle at IWAC. The presentation, titled “Inventing a WAC Program at a Two-Year College: A Tale of Unlikely Partnerships,” detailed Miami and Mesa’s collaboration to bring the Howe’s Faculty Writing Fellows model to Mesa. After returning home, Dr. Wilson received $100,000 in funding and two years of course releases to expand the WAC and Fellows model across Maricopa, with assistance from Wardle.
Wardle and HWAC Assistant Director Mandy Olejnik joined former Howe Graduate Assistant Directors Caitlin Martin (now at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) and Angela Glotfelter (now at The University of Alabama in Huntsville) for a presentation titled “Challenging Disintegrative Learning from Undergraduate to Beyond the Institution.” This presentation shared the philosophy this group also described in their co-edited book, Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Innovating Teaching Across Disciplines.
Wardle also joined Drs. Elaine Maimon (retired president, Governors State University) and Linda Adler-Kassner (University of California Santa Barbara) to present, “WAC Past, Present, and Future: Drawing on What We Know to Transform Public Perceptions of Writing.” Wardle described the work of the Miami Writing Institute (now re-released on this easy-to-use website) and she and Adler-Kassner (who is a member of the HCWE’s National Advisory Board) also described some of the principles in their new co-authored book, Writing Expertise: A Research-Based Approach to Writing and Learning Across Disciplines.
