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Weekly WAC Minutes
November 17, 2009
Brooklyn College, 1:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Present:
Co-Coordinators Liz Weis and Corey Frost
Fellows: Jamie Aroosi, Siobhan Cooke, Jen-Scott Mobley, Tahneer Oksman, Brendan O’Malley, and
Jennifer Russo
General Business:
--We passed around the initial duty-roster sheet from the beginning of the semester to make any
additions or changes to what all the Fellows have covered this fall semester in terms of responsibilities.
--Liz gave the news that the Chair of Business told her that he has implemented a department-wide
policy that every course has to include some writing.
--Brendan announced that all pieces have been selected for the anthology including format and a new
cover image (a photo of graffiti). The finer editing has also been done. **Brendan had two suggestions
for the next Fellow who handles the anthology. 1) make sure you build in enough time so that ideally,
the students can revise and work with their teachers on any more significant, structural editing issues. 2)
It’s more ideal for the Fellow who handles the anthology to have good tech skills; he is struggling a bit in
that area.
--Jen Russo and Tahneer said that the English Adjunct Comp Workshops went well and are working on
getting some dates set up for next semester. We want to offer them again in the spring term as well as
for the fall 2010 term. Ideally, we could set up something the week before classes start in the fall so the
instructors have time to work on their syllabi.
--We also discussed that perhaps a long-term WAC goal is to work with English to implement some
standard guidelines for the comp adjuncts. (Such as readings and so forth.)
--We talked a little bit about the website and discussed that we will try and create digital documents
that entail ALL materials and handouts from any given workshop as well as a table of contents (in one
document). This can be put on the website for future Fellows who can work from them and adjust as
needed.
--Corey suggested that in the spring we do a “Digital Pedagogy” workshop. We are going to start with a
shorter one—a “brown-bag” lunch kind of scenario and he and Jen Russo will lead it.
--We also talked about where to include blogs and wikis in the spring workshop and decided we will do it
in the wac II workshop.
--**We changed the meeting time on December 15th from 1-3 to 2-4. This means that Siobhan’s
evaluation time was bumped to 1:30. (Brendan will have his evaluation after the meeting.)
--Ellen Belton, our future supervisor joined us for the last half hour of the meeting so that we could
begin coordinating the spring schedule.
--Tentatively we all like MONDAYs for our meetings in the spring.
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--We divvied up the various workshops for January and the spring terms so that everyone knows who is
doing what.
January 26th New Faculty Workshop Jen-Scott & Siobhan
January 29th Basic Wac Jen-Scott & Brendan
February 19th Basic Wac Jen Russo & Tahneer
March 19th Research Workshop Siobhan & Jamie
April 6th Wac II Jen-Scott & Brendan
To do list:
 Jen Russo and Tahneer will figure out which dates they want to do the Comp workshops in the
spring
 Jen-Scott is going to put together a digital file of all the materials for the summer 2009
workshop and for basic wac I from January 2009.
 --Tahneer will modify the comp workshop flier and resend. **Remind participants that they can
only get paid in January if they taught in the fall.
 Everyone should look at the website and play around with it prior to our next meeting on
December 1. Jen Russo will remind us to do this a few days before we meet.
 Everyone should also review what Jamie has given us as far as the Research paper Project and
look for gaps or holes.
 Jamie is going to help Jen Russo vet/change the Mini-Lessons that are on the website that have
not been updated into our new format.
Next meeting’s Agenda:
--Discuss and work with website
--discuss research project
--everyone bring their CV and we will do a little professional development workshop