Our Mission
To advise the administration of the College Writing Program and to cultivate a diverse, supportive, and empowering community of writing through individual and communal growth; through advocacy for marginalized voices; and through the sustained creation of inclusive learning environments and equitable learning outcomes.
Our Vision
Writing and teaching are not neutral acts. The ways we express our knowledge and engage with the thinking of others have been informed by historical power structures that shape what it means to write and learn at Washington University in St. Louis. By recognizing the structures that inform how we write and our ideas about writing, our committee can better understand systemic inequities and seek a future that prioritizes the collective and anti-oppressive formation of our shared writing knowledge.
Our Community
We are the faculty, students, administrators, and other community stakeholders of the College Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2012 our program became an independent unit within the College of Arts & Sciences. Each year around 1,700 undergraduate students enroll in our writing courses. Between 30-40 full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and graduate students teach an average of 75 course sections each semester. This is who we are. This is the community we seek to nurture and engage.
