Survey of College Programs
WAC/WID PROGRAMS, 2006-2007
Click here for links to the survey responses, organized by college
Click here to download the entire WAC Survey, organized by question
Structures
and Organization
1. How many
Coordinators does your program have?
What are their ranks? What kinds
of incentives or rewards are offered to coordinators?
2. Who oversees the
program? Do you meet regularly, produce
reports, or otherwise document your work?
3. Does your
program work primarily with individual faculty, departments, or divisions, or
along another model? How many people are
actively involved in your program?
4. Who does your
program collaborate with-Freshman Comp, Teaching and Learning Center,
Learning Communities, others? With the
CUE Director? The Gen Ed project?
5. Do you have a
faculty committee? How many faculty sit
on it, from which disciplines?
Activities
1. What activities
comprise your program?
2. What assignments
do Fellows receive?
3. Does your program work with graduate or professional
students? How do you tailor your activities to meet
their particular needs?
4. Please list
presentations given by you or your Fellows at national conferences, and at the
CUNY WAC/WID biennial conference.
5. How does your
program engage with new media?
Requirements
1. Does your college have WI (writing intensive) requirements? If so, how many courses are required, and by
when?
2. At four-year schools, are the requirements at both the lower
level and upper level? Can students transferring to four-year schools receive a
waiver for courses already taken?
3. At two-year schools, are
WI required courses transferable to four-year schools?
Faculty Development, Outreach
1. Does your program offer faculty development workshops or other
activities, and, if so, how many people attend?
2. Do faculty get
certified? After how many hours of
training? Is there a re-certification
process?
3. What materials
do you use in such faculty development activities?
4. What kinds of
incentives are offered to faculty?
Publications, Publicity
1. Does your
program produce newsletters, handbooks, web pages, and, if so, how frequently?
(Please provide digital copies to our office, to be put our website.)
2. Have the faculty
or fellows involved with WAC/WID produced publications or won awards for their
work? Please provide a list, to be put
on our website.
Development, Assessment
1. What kinds of
challenges does your program face?
2. What are the
most successful innovations your program has undertaken in recent years?
3. In what specific
ways would you like to see it change in the coming years?
4. What kinds of
WAC/WID materials would you be interested in receiving from other CUNY
Campuses? Would a central digital
archive be useful to you?
5. How do you
measure the work you are doing?
6. With whom are
your assessment measures shared?
7. How do you
evaluate Fellows?