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Academic Senate Committee on WID/WAC 12/15/21

Minutes

The Academic Senate Committee on WID/WAC met on 12/15/21, 12:30 pm, Zoom


Committee Members in Attendance:

    1. Christi Saindon, Chair, Communication, Theatre, & Media Production (2023)
    2. James Nichols, Secretary, History (2024)
    3. Rommel Robertson, Social Sciences (2022)
    4. Sanjay Koul, Biological Sciences and Geology (2022)
    5. Chris Leary, English (2022)
    6. Stefan Spezio, Center for Tutoring and Academic Support (2023)
    7. Dimitrios Stroumbakis, Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (2024)
    8. Raul Luiz Armendariz, Physics (2024)


Liaisons in Attendance:

  1. Arthur Corradetti, Liaison to Office of Academic Affairs
  2. Philip Nelan, Nursing, Steering Committee Designee
  3. Melissa Dennihy, English, WI Co-Coordinator


Business:

The meeting was called to order at 12:30pm

  1. Discussion and Approval of Agenda
  2. Discussion and Approval of Minutes from the September 10, 2021 meeting
  3. WI Co-Coordinators Training update presented by Melissa Dennihy & Monica Rossi-Miller
    • Update on anti-racist curriculum guidelines
    • Discussion of equity charge initiated under President Mangino
    • Melissa Dennihy gave an update on the training of WI Co-Coordinators
    • Discussed offering Writing-Intensive classes in other languages
  4. Activity since last meeting:
    • Student waivers received and anticipated
    • Reaffirmation of committee charge to review student waivers
    • Report on faculty recertification
      1. Report on faculty contacted for recertification
      2. Discussion of recertification efforts, Spring 2022
    • Reviewed and edited WI Recertifications checklist
    • Discussion of student representative to the Writing-Intensive Committee
    • Update on the WID-WAC website
    • Update on coordination efforts carried out by the WIDWAC committee, the WI coordinators, CTAS, and the Composition Committee
  5. New business
    • Discussed meeting times for Spring 2022
    • Other new business discussed
  6. Adjournment

 


Respectfully submitted,

James David Nichols, Secretary
Committee on WID/WAC, Secretary

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