WRAC Faculty Summer 2026 and AY 2026-2027 Teaching Interests Overview

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Hello, WRAC faculty!

Every fall semester, very early on, we ask faculty to think about what courses they’d like to potentially teach for the coming year. I know fall 2025 is just starting, but per university workflow, the department admin team is already working on creating our department teaching schedule for summer 2026, fall 2026, and spring 2027.

The way this process works is that we send out a Google Form and ask all faculty to fill it out. 

Graduate students, do NOT fill out this form. There’s a separate process for assistantship appointments and we launch that in spring.

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The form has some questions about when you prefer to teach, where you prefer to teach, and how you prefer to teach. 

The form also invites faculty to indicate interest in teaching in the first-year writing program, our undergraduate majors (Professional and Public Writing and/or Experience Architecture), and our graduate program.

If you have accommodations documented through an HR SEAD, please indicate so on the form, but there’s no need to include further information on the form itself.

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The form is for indicating interest and preferences. If you don’t indicate interest, we may not know what days and times you prefer to teach or if you want to find out more about teaching an upper-level undergrad class or a grad seminar.

After we send out the Google Form, the admin team works together with our amazing Academic Operations crew to create a draft schedule based on student need and demand. We are required to submit our departmental summer 2026 and Fall 2026 schedules in university work copy this November. 

We then use the interest forms faculty have filled out to start staffing classes. If you have indicated interest in teaching P2W, XA, 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

And attending the program workshops and meetings we host across the academic year

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And we can certainly help to facilitate these processes!

With this in mind, please fill out the teaching interest survey no later than 5pm eastern on Friday, September 12. 

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If you have any questions, please feel free to see me, your department chair; Crystal VanKooten, our Director of First-Year Writing; Steve Fraiberg, Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies; Casey McArdle, Director of XA; or Trixie Smith, Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies.

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