Program News
Writing Program Award
The WSU Writing Program has won the Conference on College Composition and Communication's WritingProgram Certificate of Excellence award. According to our notification letter: The Washington State University Writing Program was chosen as the one of the best. The Program impressed the Committee in anumber of ways, especially its remarkably successful assessment program; its remarkable inclusiveness; and its ability to sustain its excellence in the face of change. As one committee member concluded, “One of the hallmarks of these established programs is their ability to maintain excellence as leadership changes.”
The WSU Writing Program is co-directed by Diane Kelly-Riley and Lisa Johnson-Shull.
CCCC presented the WSU Writing Program with a certificate at the awards session of the annual conference in San Francisco, March 13, 2009.
Continuing Initiatives
Dissertation Fellowships
We are looking for endowments to attract the finest graduate students. Currently, the English Department has no fellowships to support graduate students writing dissertations. These funds would help students have resources for books, Xeroxing, and research. A dissertation fellowship would also offer doctoral students more time to pursue publication venues for their completed work.
Rural Education Community Outreach
We continue to look for partners (an endowment or a program grant) to fund a visiting writer or scholar on a semester-long appointment. The writer woud teach innovative courses in the department and to help organize a rural education outreach program in the small towns surrounding Pullman (i.e., Colfax and Uniontown, Washington; Deary and Troy, Idaho). The outreach program would involve undergraduate and graduate students and faculty with rural communities through the mediums of teaching, creative writing and reading. The position would be sustainable and rotate among writers and scholars of note with an interest in northwest landscape.