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TILT wants to support faculty interested in meaningfully integrating writing as a tool for student learning and engagement by offering four Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) faculty fellowships for the school year
Opportunity Details
At a time when faculty are questioning the purpose, value, and authorship of college writing, TILT wants to support faculty interested in meaningfully integrating writing as a tool for student learning and engagement by offering four Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) faculty fellowships for the 2025-2026 school year. This fellowship program encourages faculty to design innovative writing-focused methodologies, develop a plan to assess the impact of these instructional strategies, and share valuable insights on writing as a tool for learning and engagement with the broader CSU community.
WEC projects should contribute to students’ deepened learning, to student success objectives (retention and persistence, transfer of knowledge), and/or to specific course objectives and learning outcomes. An assessment plan related to these objectives should be included in the project description as well as a timeline and narrative that clearly states the project’s relevance to student learning. WEC project descriptions are also invited to clearly connect the project’s objectives to the land grant mission of access or to other University priorities.
WEC Fellows will engage in writing-specific curriculum design or redesign with an emphasis on student learning outcomes that can be assessed. They recommend you focus your scope on one major writing assignment, 3-4 smaller writing assignments, or a collection of writing activities within one specific course.
Competitively selected WEC Fellows will be funded by a TILT grant for FY-25/26 with payout to Fellows upon completion of the final report (May 2026). Fellows should keep good notes and strong assessment approaches during the project so that a final report can be filed with both the WEC Leads and with TILT by May 15, 2026. All funds will be subject to CSU and departmental fiscal restrictions. Any funds used for supplemental pay or salary must be used to compensate for work done outside a person’s normal work duties
TILT will announce WEC Fellows on the TILT website and at the Summer Conference Awards Ceremony in May 2026 when Fellows will also be expected to present a poster about their projects. An additional opportunity will be provided to WEC Fellows to participate in and help facilitate the January 2026 (exact date TBD) TILT Course Redesign Institute so that Fellows can share their learning with faculty colleagues.
Note: Preference will be given to faculty who participated in TILT’s June 2025 intensive Community of Practice on Writing for Engaged Learning and who have not already participated in the WAC Fellows program.
Proposals are due by 11:59 pm on August 1. All projects will be funded on a one-year cycle. Writing-enriched curriculum will be prepped in August, implemented in the fall 2025 semester, and revised with a short reflection in the Spring 2026 semester. Projects will be completed by May 15, 2026.
Proposals should be submitted electronically as a single document to Dr. Kelly Bradbury at [email protected].
Proposals should include the following details; the summary and purpose statement combined should be no more than 2 pages maximum, single spaced:
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