Interdisciplinary Writing Committee

C29F

Membership List

Areas of Committee Concern

The Interdisciplinary Writing Committee is concerned with the development of writing and thinking in every discipline and at every academic level.

Membership

  • Director of the Writing Across the University, Chair
  • Writing Center Director
  • One teaching faculty representative from each of the schools and College of Arts and Sciences divisions: Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, Social Sciences, Science/Math, Arts/Humanities, Love School of Business, School of Communications, and School of Health Sciences

Policies and Procedures

  • With the exception of the Chair and Associate Director, each committee member normally serves a two-year term.
  • Committee membership rotates among departments, when possible.
  • Committee members recommend successors at the end of their terms, and the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs appoints new members.
  • The committee meets on a monthly basis, or more frequently as necessary.

Responsibilities

  • To foster the development of writing and thinking in every discipline and at every academic level
  • To serve as an advisory body for the director of the writing program
  • To report to the committee the interests and concerns of the departments they represent, and report to their departments the committee's business and concerns