News, Events, and Calls

Traci Gardner
- Traci Gardner, News Editor

We publish news from the WAC and writing communities. Visit to catch up on upcoming conferences, see calls for proposals, notices of newly published books and other scholarly projects, stories of WAC programs and practitioners in the news. If you have WAC news you want to share, please send a note to WACClearinghouseNews@gmail.com.

April 12, 2022
Save Time Responding to Writing

The Ferris State University WAC Program offers tips on how teachers can save time as they respond to student writing.

March 28, 2022
St. Francis de Sales Students Write in PE

Students write about experimentation in their PE class.

March 23, 2022
Finch Kindergarten Students Focus on Writing about Math

Texas kindergarten students write about geometric shapes.

March 17, 2022
Grounded Literacies in a Transnational WAC/WID Ecology

New book draws from WAC/WID, second language writing, rhetoric and composition, and scholarship on English teaching and learning in South Korea to describe the ways writing as a privileged literate activity shapes and is shaped by the development of one university’s transnational campuses.

March 15, 2022
Community is the Way Examines Social Justice and Community Partnerships

New, open-access field guide, Community is the Way: Engaged Writing and Designing for Transformative Change, offers a vision for enacting social justice with community partners.

March 14, 2022
Celebrating 25 Phenomenal Years of WAC Clearinghouse

March 14 is the 25th anniversary of the founding of the WAC Clearinghouse.

March 5, 2022
WAC at St. Phillips Southport This Week

Sixth-grade students write about the Eucharist in their reports.

March 3, 2022
Exemplary WAC Program Award Nominations Sought

Nominate your program for the Exemplary WAC Program Awards. Nominations are due by April 15, 2022.

March 2, 2022
Writing about Ancient Egypt

Byfleet Primary students are writing across the curriculum while studying ancient Egypt.

March 1, 2022
Submit Your Activities & Assignments to the Archive @ Writing Spaces

Writing Studies, the open textbook series for undergraduate composition, seeks proposals for activities and assignments to add to the text’s archive.