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National Writing Day Opportunity
Dear UW-L Faculty and Staff,
To celebrate National Writing Day, we invite you and your students to participate in a unique opportunity to showcase the diverse writing talents of UW-L students. Sponsored by the National Council of the Teachers of English, the National Writing Gallery is soliciting student writing from across the disciplines in any format or genre.
To participate, simply send us the names of your best student writers by using this online form. Please submit no more than two student names per course section. Submissions are due November 30th. After we have received nominations, we will invite students to submit specific works for publication in this national venue.
Bryan Kopp, Writing Programs Coordinator, kopp.brya@uwlax.edu
Darci Thoune, Composition Coordinator, thoune.darc@uwlax.edu
10/16/2009
UW-L's Writing Center
UW-L's Writing Center is an excellent resource for teachers across the curriculum. Peer tutors can your students improve
- clarity
- focus
- writing style
- grammar skills
- and more
The Writing Center is located in 304 Wimberly Hall. More information is available at
http://www.uwlax.edu/writingcenter/.
09/15/2009
FERPA and Student Writing
FERPA (the Family and Educational Rights Act), and its cousin, HIPPA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), have become increasingly familiar acronyms steeped in the ethics of protecting privacy and personal information from public and prying eyes. However, while most of us have a working understanding about and generally agree with the concepts of student rights to privacy, many instructors find themselves inadvertently violating some of the essential and governing principles of FERPA. More specifically, many writing instructors, working in traditional modes of collecting and returning student writing, often provide opportunities for student privacy to be compromised. For example, leaving student work in boxes, crates, or piles outside our office doors where students can clearly view identified names and grades of other students is a violation of FERPA. The actual language from FERPA states that (from section 99.30) "The parent or eligible student shall provide a signed and dated written consent before an educational agency or institution discloses personally identifiable information from the student's education records." For more detailed information on FERPA: http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/reg/ferpa/index.html
Understanding that returning student work, especially at the end of the semester, can sometimes be challenging, there are other options. If returning work to students during class or having students collect their work from you during office hours is not possible, another route might be to have students submit their work in envelopes that can be sealed and then leave these outside your office. Yet another alternative is to have students submit their work with envelopes, an address, and postage and then send their work to them. Finally, perhaps the most foolproof method of maintaining student privacy is to use course management software like D2L that is password protected (for both collecting and returning materials) or to return student work to their private, university issued e-mail accounts.09/11/2009
Essay Contest for UW Students
This essay competition is open to any UW System undergraduate student in academic good standing (UW College or four-year institution) who has completed a minimum of 30 credit hours by the end of the Fall Semester 2009, and who has at least one semester remaining (Fall 2010) as a full-time student.
Award: Three awards for $2,000 each are available (one to a student from the UW Colleges and two to students from the UW comprehensive and doctoral institutions).
Award: Three awards for $2,000 each are available (one to a student from the UW Colleges and two to students from the UW comprehensive and doctoral institutions).
Topic: Liberal education is often characterized as transformative. Reflect on your education—and on what it means to be “transformed.” When have you been affected by a transformative educational experience? What did you learn about yourself or about the world in general as a function of that pivotal experience? How have you been changed, and what do you imagine/hope will be the long-term impact of this change?
More information, including deadlines, submission guidelines and previous winners, available from UW-L's Liberal Arts Essay Competition page and the UW System Liberal Education Initiative.
