Goals of the Lehman WAC Yearlong Seminar
- Build a community of teachers dedicated to improving and supporting student writing
- Discuss how abolitionist theory can help us reimagine our assessment practices, syllabi, classroom spaces, and teaching methods
What is the Lehman WAC Yearlong Seminar?
- Meets 10pm to 1pm on Zoom, one Friday per month
- Includes Lehman WAC fellows and co-coordinators, along with Lehman faculty members
- Each meeting, we will have read one text (choose one of two or three), we’ll listen to a small group share their thoughts about the readings, then discuss as a larger group. The last hour of each session will be dedicated work time: fellows and faculty will join a breakout room, based on your WAC goal for the year, to brainstorm how to apply something from the reading to your teaching.
What changes can we implement in our pedagogy that will contribute to dismantling the settler-colonial, neoliberal university and to shaping a liberatory future?
- Create an alternative assessment practice for a course/assignment
- Revise an assignment or syllabus
- Brainstorm/create a syllabus for a new course
- Produce scholarly writing on anti-racism and/or abolitionism in the classroom
- Present an anti-racist/abolitionist reflection on curriculum, department offerings, or your discipline
- Create an abolitionist action plan
To learn more about the topics and readings for each year’s seminar, visit the following pages: 2023-2024; 2022-2023; 2022-2021.
