The Rhetorical Situation: 2023 End-of-Year Wrap-Up

Spring Quarter 2023 Contents:  End of the Year Letter  Highlighting our Faculty:  Accomplishments Summer Dreaming Loves of our Lives End of the Year Letter Dear Writing Program Faculty and Staff, The PDC wanted to take the time to thank you all for a great year and for your participation in our professional-development and community-building events. … [Read more…]

PDC Blog Fall 2022: New Colleagues, WP Mini-Conference, and Teaching Circles

Introducing: Joseph Navarro and Fiona Weigant Here’s an introduction to the two newest members of the Writing Program, who have been with us since the start of the 2022-03 academic year. Joseph Navarro – Lecturer I am excited to return to UCSC and continue my service to this community. I view teaching writing and literacy … [Read more…]

Faculty Accomplishments

The PDC wanted to highlight what our faculty was most excited about accomplishing this past year or this upcoming summer–conferences, publications, teaching awards, classes, hobbies, children’s or students’ achievements, etc. Thank you to those of you who responded! “I consider it an accomplishment simply to have made it through this academic year.”  — A common … [Read more…]

Three New Faculty!

The Writing Program welcomed three new faculty members in the fall quarter of 2021. Read on to learn a bit about our new colleagues!  Chris Garrecht-Williams Campus affiliations… I’ve been teaching Oakes Core for the last few years and am in the middle of my first quarter teaching Writing 2. Before coming to the Writing … [Read more…]