University Writing Committee

The ICC shall call upon the Senate to initiate college elections to fill positions on subcommittees it may form to oversee general education and university writing. The college representation on the General Education or University Writing subcommittees shall reflect the college representation on the ICC.

The membership of the sub-committee for University Writing (UWC) shall include representation from the same units as ICC [one faculty member per college which offers an undergraduate program, each to be elected by their collegial faculty; one representative elected at large by the Faculty Senate and who is a member of a college offering an undergraduate program; one representative from the academic deans or designee; one representative from Student Government; and the provost or their delegate (ex-officio, voting)] and will also include the First-Year Writing Coordinator, the University Writing Program director, one representative from the Academic Success Center, and one representative from the English Language Center.

The chairs of GEC and UWC, or their designee, shall serve as an ex-officio non-voting member of the ICC. The chair of ICC, or designee, shall serve as an ex-officio non-voting member on each of the ICC subcommittees.

Charges for AY2022

1. Coordinate with the Office of Effective Educational Assessment about the mechanism and logistics related to implementing the Graduate Writing Policy in the revised D01.5. (Continuing Charge - Charge 3, 2021-2022)
2. Collaborate with the Provost’s Office and the appropriate university-wide resources and faculty committees (possibly including the UWP, ICC, DEIC, EEA, and others) to develop a plan and timeline to assess Writing Across the Curriculum at RIT during AY2022-2023. (Continuing Charge - Charge 5, 2021-2022)
3. Update Policy D01.0 to more clearly reflect the roles of the UWP and the UWC with respect to providing writing-related resources and instruction to RIT faculty. (Continuing Charge - Charge 6, 2021-2022)
4. Explore adding a requirement to the University’s writing policy to recertify courses as Writing Intensive at some frequency between 5 and 10 years.
5. Explore the University Writing Policy’s writing requirements and expectations for total time, topics, effort, fraction of grade, and credit hours prior to graduation as appropriate. Current policy only requires 3 courses to be taken to fulfill the writing requirement and fraction of grade required assumes a 3 credit course.
6. Propose a process for updating course outlines for currently approved WI courses that do not have an Appendix B attached to the course outline. (Note that if the course does not meet the current writing policy requirements, it could lose WI status (includes WI-PR courses)).

University Writing Committee reports can be found on RIT’s Digital Media Archive