Program Meetings

Program Meetings and Professional Development Workshops (described briefly in the section on PWR Committees below) offer one way of building community together. We hold Program meetings roughly three times a quarter, sharing and discussing news about the Program’s ongoing goals and accomplishments, revisions to our curriculum, objectives for the coming months, and reports from our Committees. Often, specific committees will run a portion of the Program Meeting, leading Professional Development workshops or facilitating discussions on topics such as improving how technology supports teaching, developing teaching portfolios, exchanging knowledge gained from attending major conferences in the field, translating pedagogical practices into publications, and following trends in the discipline. In recent years, we have established a small group of instructors interested in developing knowledge of writing program administration, and this group meets periodically for additional professional development. Finally, all post-doctoral teaching fellows join a group that meets with the Director and Associate Director several times a quarter to discuss professional issues and to workshop an article, chapter, or presentation being worked on by one of its members.