The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and the WAC Clearinghouse are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2025 Writing Across the Curriculum Awards. These awards recognize contributions to the WAC community through scholarship, service, and achievement. They honor individuals, groups, and WAC programs. The award recipients will be announced and honored at the Seventeenth International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC 2025), which will be held on the campus of Colorado State University on July 16-19.
Nominations can be submitted at https://wacawards.colostate.edu . The deadline for most awards is March 16, 2025. Please reach out to Mike Palmquist and Lindsey Harding with any questions.
Publication Awards
Best WAC Monograph
This award recognizes an authored book (including books by multiple authors) that makes an exceptional contribution to WAC scholarship, including (but not limited to) WAC programming, administration, pedagogy, and impact.
Best WAC Edited Collection
This award recognizes an edited collection that makes an exceptional contribution to WAC scholarship, including (but not limited to) WAC programming, administration, pedagogy, and impact.
Outstanding WAC Dissertation
This award recognizes a dissertation that makes an exceptional contribution to WAC scholarship, including (but not limited to) WAC programming, administration, pedagogy, and impact.
Best WAC Article or Chapter Focused on Research
This award recognizes a research-based article or chapter that makes an exceptional contribution to WAC. Nominated work should primarily offer the methodology and results of a research study, even if the findings have programmatic, theoretical, or pragmatic implications.
Best WAC Article or Chapter Focused on Pedagogy, Theory, or Practice
This award recognizes an article or chapter that makes an exceptional contribution to WAC scholarship in the areas of pedagogy, theory or practice. Nominated work should primarily offer us theoretical ways of approaching WAC work, discussions of program design and operation, or insights regarding pedagogy, even if this work is based in research.
Achievement Awards
Early Career Contributions to the Field
This award recognizes early career scholars (i.e. graduate students and scholars in the first nine years of their academic career) who have made significant contributions to the field of WAC through scholarship or service.
Outstanding Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Field
This award recognizes scholars who have promoted diversity and inclusion in the field of WAC through scholarship and service.
Distinguished Fellow of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum
This award recognizes distinguished scholars (i.e., scholars in field for at least 15 years) who have made significant contributions to the field of WAC through scholarship, service, and/or achievement. This is an award that continues beyond the year in which it was made.
Exemplary WAC Programs
The Exemplary WAC Program Awards series recognizes the extraordinary achievements of WAC directors and/or administrative teams to (1) establish, (2) maintain, and (3) sustain programs that foster and facilitate exemplary engagement with writing across the curriculum at their institution, as well as institutional commitments to support these achievements. Three awards will be issued each award cycle, corresponding with the years dedicated to program building.