ERIC Number: EJ1238603
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Dec
Pages: 23
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Tracking the Sustainable Development of WAC Programs Using Sustainability Indicators: Limitations and Possibilities
Cox, Michelle; Galin, Jeffrey R.
Across the Disciplines, v16 n4 p38-60 Dec 2019
"Sustainable WAC: A Whole Systems Approach to Launching and Developing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs" (Cox, Galin, & Melzer, 2018a) lays out a systematic whole systems approach to program development that draws on complexity theories and integrates the use of sustainability indicators (SIs) for monitoring and assessing program sustainability. However, the SI part of the whole systems approach methodology may be overly burdensome and even premature for assessing the sustainability of smaller and younger WAC programs. Further, aspects of the SI methodology need clarification to be useful to the larger WAC programs that would benefit from its use. This article provides important correctives to and elaborations of the treatment of SIs in Sustainable WAC that will help WAC program directors more effectively decide whether and how to use this tool as part of a whole systems approach to develop more sustainable and impactful WAC programs.
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Sustainability, Holistic Approach, Program Development, Program Administration, Undergraduate Study, College Faculty, Reading Strategies, Writing Strategies, Problem Solving, Program Evaluation, Stakeholders, Faculty Development
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Florida; New York
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