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The Writing Program has been awarded a 2003 University Vision Fund Grant for "Multicultural Literacy: Diversity in the Writing Curriculum," [abstract] a project designed to extend conversations on diversity already begun by the program's current Diversity Speaker Series, an annual public lecture and one-day "master's class" for doctoral students. The grant was written by visiting professor Harriet Malinowitz, professors Scott Lyons and Eileen Schell, and Composition and Cultural Rhetoric doctoral students, Tracy Hamler-Carrick and Damian Baca. The grant will be administered by Lyons and Schell. The new grant will enable the Writing Program to add two new facets to its series: first, local people working in areas similar to that year's Diversity Speaker will be invited to be respondents to his or her public talks and then to present a related colloquium to the entire Writing Program. This colloquium would focus on how issues of social difference can be taken up in the Writing Program curriculum and pedagogy. The second facet will be a student symposium in which undergraduates who have taken writing studios will address the faculty about their experiences with diversity; the goal of these presentations will be to help teachers to envision new ways of addressing these issues in their teaching.
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