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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt">We wanted to give you an update on the development and proposals of Writing Across Curriculum (<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:stockticker>WAC</st1:stockticker>) alternatives for English 1C.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of you certainly know that these plans have been in development over the last four or five years, but some of the newer lecturers may not be aware.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Therefore, we wanted to outline the major elements and history.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U>History of University Writing Program (UWP)<o:p></o:p></U></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt">The University Writing Program (UWP) was established in 2007 and separated from jurisdictional control (and budget) of the English Department partly in order to create a substantive <st1:stockticker>WAC</st1:stockticker> program.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Part of the reason for this, as many may have guessed, is to reduce the budget footprint of writing instruction at <st1:stockticker>UCR</st1:stockticker>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">This was part of the plan from the very beginning, and the University has the absolute right to mandate curriculum that satisfies graduation requirements, and it also has the right to set a budget for that curriculum.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are two things that we, as lecturers, cannot change</B>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The <st1:stockticker>WAC</st1:stockticker> program will come into existence <st1:stockticker>NEXT</st1:stockticker> FALL.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We (the UWP) are charged with reducing the number of English 1C sections beginning next year (most likely starting Fall).</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt">What is important to note here is that we, as lecturers, do have a voice in HOW the <st1:stockticker>WAC</st1:stockticker> program is conceived and will be implemented.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are three lecturers on the committee, and we are very concerned by what these changes to the course structure might mean to fellow lecturers in terms of jobs and security.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U>The </U></B><st1:stockticker><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U>WAC</U></B></st1:stockticker><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U> Pathways<o:p></o:p></U></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt">Right now, as communicated in an earlier email, there are three proposed “pathways” that students will be able to choose from to satisfy the English 1C requirement.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In addition to the current English 1C offering, there will be two additional pathways.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 54.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">1)<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN>Writing-intensive courses offered by various departments and standing in place of English 1C;</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 54.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">2)<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN><st1:stockticker>WAC</st1:stockticker> Courses that are somewhat less writing-intensive (in the disciplines), but which stand in place of English 1C when students simultaneously enroll in and pass a related two-unit writing course taught by the University Writing Program. </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt">NOTE: While the University Writing Committee is still working on the language for these pathways (particularly concerning the two-unit course), we are still working on the details to ensure there is a very substantive training program and a detailed approval process for these courses.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Since these measures for training and standards are being included, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">it makes the likelihood of a full-scale adoption and transfer of English 1C classes to other departments increasingly unlikely</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U>What the Future Holds</U><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt">We do not see a doom and gloom scenario developing, especially since programs like these always take a fair amount of time to deploy and there are built in barriers in the proposals so that not every department on campus can simply start offering writing courses (this is not 2004 revisited).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All the regular courses will have to be offered (BW3, Eng 4, Eng 5, Eng 1ABC), and lecturers will be teaching many of these.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, it would be naïve to say that there will be no effects on the lecturer pool in the coming years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There will be two pressures on the lecturer pool as we see them: increased teaching assistantships being awarded to staff <st1:stockticker>WAC</st1:stockticker> courses and some decreased need for lecturers due to English 1C changes.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">As far as we can gauge (and this is Julie Brett and Keith Vance’s opinion), these changes will not effect post-six or one-year contract lecturers</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Although there may well be fewer quarterly contracts awarded in the coming years, this number is hard to gauge because enrollment may well go up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The short term outlook for next year is still fairly positive because the new <st1:stockticker>WAC</st1:stockticker> English 1C program will not be in <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">full</B> swing. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The long term outlook (2-5 years down the line) is harder to anticipate, but those people just applying for lectureship positions or those with only quarterly contracts at that point may find fewer classes being offered.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt">Anyway, we wanted to let you all know what is happening.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt">Your Representatives,</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt">Julie Brett and Keith Vance</P>
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<DIV class=mirapoint-signature><PRE>Lash Keith Vance, M.A., Ph.D., M.Ed
Director of Computer-Assisted Instruction
Lecturer Representative
University Writing Program
University of California, Riverside
Office: 1103C HMNSS
Email : lashv@ucr.edu
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