WRAC 2023-2024 Faculty Teaching Interests Form Overview

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Hello, colleagues!

Every fall, we ask faculty to think about what courses they’d like to potentially teach for the coming year. So right now, we’re working on creating a Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 schedule.

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The form has some questions about when you prefer to teach, where you prefer to teach, how you prefer to teach, and how we can best support your teaching.

The form also invites faculty to indicate interest in teaching in the first-year writing program...

...our undergraduate majors…

...and our graduate program.

The form also includes questions about whether or not you're planning a leave or sabbatical or to retire in the next year or have made or expect you'll make a commitment to teaching in another program next year.

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After we send out the Google Form, the associate chairs and Director of First-Year Writing work together to create a draft schedule based on student need and pathway-to-graduation and demand. 

We then use the interest forms faculty have filled out to start staffing classes. If you have indicated interest in teaching in the undergraduate program in Professional and Public Writing, in Experience Architecture, or in the grad program, there are some next steps you should take to pursue that interest.

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Preparing to teach in the undergrad or grad programs might include:

requesting a meeting with the appropriate associate chair to follow up on the interest you indicated on the Google Form

sitting in on current classes

reviewing the syllabi of the class or classes you’re interested in potentially teaching

reaching out to current faculty teaching those classes to learn more about their approach

having conversations with and about our students to get to know them and their interests better

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And we can certainly help initiate those conversations!

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With this in mind, please fill out the teaching interest survey no later than 5pm eastern on Wednesday, September 14.

And please know this is part of a much larger, complex, months-long process of scheduling and staffing courses for next year. We are going to try to make these processes as transparent and open as possible.

If you have any questions, please feel free to see me; to Julie Lindquist, our Director of First-Year Writing; to Casey McArdle, Associate Chair and Director of Undergrad Studies; or to Liza Potts, Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies.

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