Charge of the Committee: The writing committee is tasked with concerns in two main areas. First, the writing committee serves as an advisory body for Writing at Bates, advocating for its mission and for its role in supporting faculty at Bates College as teachers of writing. Second, the writing committee attends to the role of writing in the Bates curriculum (implementing and reviewing assessments, and making recommendations on best practices) and oversees the Bates writing-attentive curriculum (W1, W2, and W3). As a body comprised of faculty, staff, and students who are attentive to and informed about college writing, the writing committee is uniquely positioned to respond to considerations of multiple constituencies concerned with writing. As such, all potential changes to guidelines on the writing attentive curriculum coming from other offices and constituencies are vetted through the writing committee. In this way the committee’s recommendations on the writing attentive curriculum and its delivery are formally tied to the evolving landscape of this important aspect of the Bates curriculum.

Composition: Four faculty members (ideally one from each division), the director and assistant directors of writing (ex officio), a representative from the library (ex officio), two students.

Committee Members:

• Krista Aronson (ex officio)
• Sam Bird (2023-2027)
• Bridget Fullerton (ex officio)
• Hanna McGaughey (2024-2027)
• Lydia Page (ex officio)
• Kirk Read (2022-2026) (Co-Chair)
• Bronwyn Sale (2022-2026)
• Ben Peck (ex officio) (Co-chair)

Contact us: writing-committee@bates.edu