The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program at Lehman College is committed to building a community of teachers dedicated to improving and supporting student writing. The coordinators strive to create professional development programs for faculty that integrate writing pedagogy with antiracist and decolonial pedagogical principles. This work builds on the legacy of previous WAC coordinators to create compassionate environments for Lehman students to thrive through various kinds of writing across the disciplines. Please click around to learn more about our people, program, and the projects we’re cultivating.
Lehman WAC Overview
Lehman WAC creates spaces for faculty to develop reading and writing assignments, rubrics or assessments, syllabi, and writing-to-learn strategies. We design workshops that model how writing enhances learning and that demonstrate how learning to write is an essential component of building literacy and empowering our students. Above all, our programming is intentionally built to include anti-racist training and restorative justice into reading and writing pedagogy.
The heart of our program is the WAC Faculty Seminar, which gathers faculty and graduate students together to engage in mutual learning about reading and writing pedagogy and to develop supportive, care-centered and inclusive practices for our students and each other. We also offer shorter WAC Intensive Workshops for the greater campus community.
Our program commits to shaping the pedagogical culture at Lehman to provide the following in our courses across the curriculum:
- Scaffolded assignments
- Ungrading and other anti-racist ways to respond to student writing
- Writing-to-learn strategies that help students meet the goals of the course
- Activities that promote student engagement
- Writing for community audiences
- Translanguaging
- Creating digital, multimodal, and/or public-facing writing
News and Updates
In 2024 – 25, the coordinators of Lehman WAC and Austin Bailey (Hunter College) are serving as guest editors for The WAC Journal and preparing a special issue titled “WAC and Its Institutions: Reclaiming Practices of Freedom.” Submissions are due April 15, 2025; for more information, see the call for papers here.
