At Hunter College the CUNY WAC Fellows (formerly Writing Fellows) Program provides the services of Fellows from the CUNY Graduate Center (see http://www2.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/undergraduate-studies/wac/), trained by CUNY WAC Program Coordinators in Writing Across the Curriculum pedagogy, to work with faculty members who teach or plan to teach courses in which student writing is a central and regular activity. CUNY WAC Fellows can:

• consult with faculty on writing issues, offering expertise in assignment design, assessment options, and writing-to-learn activities;
• consult with students, offering tutorial services, including workshops and handout materials;
• consult with departments, providing information and expert opinion on writing issues, helping to develop writing in the discipline and best practices in writing pedagogy.

As CUNY Recommendations state, "Writing Fellows and college faculty members should work as partners" (http://www2.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/page-assets/about/administration/offices/undergraduate-studies/wac/WACWIDRecommendationsOAA1999.pdf). And at Hunter, they do. WAC Fellows have helped professors revise assignments to help students improve their responses. Fellows have helped faculty create more targeted and efficient assessment tools to provide students with more, and more helpful, feedback. Fellows have consulted with Teaching Assistants and adjuncts, and created materials and handbooks to help new and novice instructors understand student writing problems and adopt methods to address them. In several departments and programs, Fellows have helped design courses and the writing components of revised curricula. Fellows have presented at college, university, regional, and national professional development events and conferences. And students have benefited from tutorial hours, writing workshops, helpful handouts, and extra instruction on writing provided by Fellows.

WAC Fellows have worked with faculty in 23 different departments and programs at Hunter, with almost two hundred full-time and part-time faculty (as of Spring 2017). And faculty appreciate the Fellows' contributions: "Having a Writing Fellow helped emphasize the importance of writing to the course instruction"; "The quality of (the students') written work is so much better than in the past I can only attribute it to the time (the Fellow) spent with me and with them"; "(S)he played an instrumental role: in writing assignments, in explaining the writing process to students in the class, in providing me with feedback on how students are comprehending the material"; "(The Fellow) was quite invaluable helping me design and incorporate a wider range of writing assignments into my courses."

By the terms of their fellowship, however, CUNY WAC Fellows cannot:

• teach class (though they can provide in-class workshops);
• grade papers;
• assist in research (unless it is WAC-related);
• provide personal services.

The Hunter College Writing Across the Curriculum Program supports the WAC Fellows at Hunter with ongoing training, consultation, materials, and supplemental services (such as Writing Center tutoring, in-class workshops tailored to specific classes, and expert consultation). The WAC Program recruits and takes requests from individual faculty, departments, and programs for participation in the WAC Fellows Program. If you are interested in working with a CUNY WAC Fellow, contact: