Annual Jack & Ruth Gribben English Lectureship Series Presents:

Susan McLeod
Friday, November 2, 2012

Online registration click here

Labette Community College will host its 28th annual Jack and Ruth Gribben English Lecture Series on Friday, November 2, 2012.  It will take place on LCC's Main Campus in Parsons. Continental Breakfast and Registration begin at 9:00 a.m.

This year's lecture, "Making the Grade: Assessing Student Writing and Handling the Paper Load," will be presented by Susan McLeod.  She is Research Professor and UCSB Writing Program Distinguished Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the former Director of the Writing Program there.  She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin in English literature; she has taught both literature and writing classes at the college level.  Besides being involved in writing program administration for most of her career, she has also been involved in writing across the curriculum efforts, particularly faculty development.  She has a particular interest in writing assessment, from the classroom level to large-scale testing.

Her publications include such books as Writing Program Administration (A Reference Guide), Composing A Community: A History of Writing Across the Curriculum, Strengthening Programs for Writing across the Curriculum, Writing Across the Curriculum: A Guide to Developing Programs, Writing about the World (a multi-cultural textbook for composition), Notes on the Heart: Affective Issues in the Writing Classroom, and WAC for the New Millennium: Strategies for Continuing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs,  as well as numerous articles on writing across the curriculum and writing program administration.

She is the editor of the Perspectives on Writing book series (http://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives.cfm) with the WAC Clearing house and co-editor (with Margot Soven) of the Writing Program Administration book series with Parlor Press (http://www.parlorpress.com/wpa.html).  At the moment she is editing the memoirs of Ednah Shephard Thomas, who was her supervisor when she was a TA at the University of Wisconsin.

There is no fee to attend and registration must be completed by October 26, 2012. Registration can be completed at www.labette.edu/forms/lecture_reg.htm or by calling (620) 820-1281 or emailing Tammy Wilson at TammyW@labette.edu.  For more information on the Jack and Ruth Gribben English Lecture Series, please contact Lindi Forbes, Director of Foundation and Alumni at (620) 820-1212.