Colorado State University | July 16-19, 2025
WAC and the Global Future: Flexibility, Action, Innovation
IWAC 2025 focused on questions shaped by global and national shifts and the debates that surrounded them. These questions were associated with long-standing concerns about how best to use writing to support teaching and learning; how best to prepare students for the writing and speaking situations they will encounter in their professional, personal, and civic lives; and how best to design, manage, grow, assess, and sustain WAC programs. These questions also included what were, at the time, more recent concerns, such as how to take into account movements for and against diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice and how to address the emergence of generative artificial intelligence applications that challenge our understanding of what it means to write and to be a writer. Conference attendees' responses to these questions continued and, in some cases, extended discussions that took place at previous IWAC conferences—in particular, those that took place in 2021 and 2023.
In the wake of the pandemic, IWAC 2025 offered an opportunity to meet in person on the beautiful campus of Colorado State University, where the conference organizers had hoped to hold an in-person conference as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the WAC movement. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held virtually in 2021. The conference organizers noted on the IWAC 2025 website, “We are grateful to have had another chance to share our campus, city, and state with you.”
About the Conference: IWAC was presented by the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC). Prior to the formation of AWAC, the conference was managed by an independent group of conference directors. In 2018, the conference directors affiliated IWAC with the newly formed association. You can learn more by reading Marty Townsend's history of the IWAC conference.
About the Conference Logo: The conference logo celebrates the long history of the conference, picking up on the logo developed for the 2006 conference held at Clemson University.
The Seventeenth International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference was held at Colorado State University July 16-19, 2025. It was held in a hybrid format, with speakers and attendees participating in-person and online. More than 340 individuals participated in the conference, with roughly 270 attending in person. Each of the plenary sessions and more than a dozen of the sessions were recorded and are available for viewing. View the program to access the recordings.