Faculty Support

The Writing Program provides support to faculty teaching writing through the Writing Associates Program, the Faculty Learning Community, and on-going faculty development opportunities. We welcome queries about the specifics of teaching writing and alternative grading: please send requests for individual consultations to katunicj@dickinson.edu or mcinernl@dickinson.edu. 

Writing Associates

The Writing Associates Program trains peer writing tutors to assist individual professors with writing in courses. WAs are students from across academic disciplines who are identified by their professors as outstanding writers, take WRPG 214: Working with Writers: Theory and Practice, and work as peer writing tutors in the Norman M. Eberly Writing Center. A WA acts as a bridge between professor and students in order to enhance the learning and teaching of writing. Faculty teaching a fall FYS or a spring WiD (or V) course can request a WA here. 

WAs work up to 25 hours each semester and can work with their faculty partner to provide any of the following support:

• workshops on writing process and the mechanics of writing;
• feedback on assignment prompts;
• out of class peer review;
• partnership in creating a generativeAI policy;
• much more!

Faculty Learning Community in Writing

Thanks to a generous gift from Joseph and Shirley Eberly, the Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center in collaboration with the Faculty Success Center hosts a yearly Faculty Learning Community in Writing (FLCW). The Faculty Learning Community in Writing is a group of 6-8 faculty from across the disciplines who meet together to discuss a pedagogical issue that involves writing as either topic or medium. FLCWs meet for two hours in August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April and May. During the spring semester, the FLCW hosts a guest speaker and holds a dinner reception. For past programs see here. 

Faculty Development

The Writing Program co-sponsors the Syllabus & Course Design Collaboratory in January each year, holds workshops for faculty teaching First Year Seminar throughout the academic year, and routinely contributes to the Center for Teaching and Learning's Faculty Success Center Programs.