To learn more about the expectations and requirements for WAC fellows at Lehman, visit the Fellows page.
Our program at Lehman 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 learning to write is an essential component of building literacy and empowering our students. Above all, our workshops and seminars are 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 (WAC Foundations), 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 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
More than 200 faculty from twenty departments have participated in the WAC Faculty Seminar. Please explore our site to learn more about our program.
