CARMEN WERDER
WesternWashingtonUniversity3109 Blanchard Road
Bellingham, WA98225-9093Bow, WA98232
Office: (360) 650-7329Home: (360) 766-6239
FAX: (360) 650-4329E-mail:
EDUCATION
1994Ph.D. in English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Concentration:
Language with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition. Dissertation: Expressed Silence: A Metaphorics of Word in Selected Nineteenth-Century American Texts. Examination areas: History of Rhetoric, Theories of Composition, Critical Theory, Language Philosophy, and American Literature (19th C.). Degree: First class standing. Dissertation: Pass with Distinction.
1986M.A. in English, WesternWashingtonUniversity, Bellingham, WA. Rhetoric and Composition. GPA: 4.0.
1981Standard Teaching Certificate (K-12), WesternWashingtonUniversity, Bellingham, WA. Concentration: Language Arts and Elementary Education.
1968B.A. in English, WesternWashingtonUniversity, Bellingham, WA. Concentration: Secondary Education.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
WesternWashingtonUniversity, BellinghamWA:
2002-present Director, Teaching-LearningAcademy (TLA), coordinating and developing a
university-wide forum for the scholarship of teaching and learning. Director, Writing Instruction Support, coordinating and facilitating curricular and pedagogical support for faculty teaching writing across the disciplines. Affiliated Faculty, Department of Communication, teaching “Civil Discourse as Interactive Learning” linked with the Teaching-LearningAcademy, as well as other courses in rhetoric.
2003-present Cluster Facilitator for Institutional Leadership Programon “Sustaining Student
Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. CarnegieAcademyfor the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, leading faculty and student representatives from
six U.S. institutions working on integrating student voices in the study of teaching and
learning.
2005-2006 Carnegie Scholar, CarnegieAcademy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
(CASTL), conducting research in the scholarship of teaching and learning, including
three residencies at the Carnegie Foundation, Palo Alto, CA.
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2002-2005Director, First-year Interest Group (FIG) Program, overseeing curriculum,
pedagogy, and assessment for a learning community program for entering students.
2000-2004Faculty, First-year Interest Group (FIG) Program, teaching introductory seminar “Perspectives on Learning,” linked with discipline-based general education courses.
1999-2001Director of Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Assessment, Center for Instructional Innovation, coordinating curriculum and assessment for cross disciplinary programs, including the First-Year Interest Group seminar emphasizing critical literacy; teaching a graduate course on “Communication Pedagogy for College Educators,” conducting faculty development workshops on such topics as the course portfolio and writing; co-facilitating a course on self-reflection and participating in the Teaching and Learning Academy; coordinating campus writing assessment efforts, and serving as a support resource on developing student learning outcomes, with a focus on writing.
Summer 1999 Scholarship of Teaching Fellow, developing Phase II of the Carnegie Campus Conversation Program on the scholarship of teaching and learning.
1994-1999Associate Director of the University Writing Center Program, overseeing staff,
facility, policy, and pedagogy including training writing assistants; developing online
writing center models; providing writing support in the general education curriculum;
conducting TA and faculty development in writing across the curriculum; coordinating and teaching interdisciplinary writing links/clusters, and serving as a liaison for writing assessment.
1992-1999Lecturer in the Department of English, teaching Intermediate Expository Writing
(linked sections), Introduction to Technical Writing, Introduction to the Study of the English Language, and various independent study courses in writing/writing pedagogy.
1994-1995Research Assistant to the Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education (part-time), surveying current higher education trends in general education reform.
1992-1994Assistant Director of the Writing Center, overseeing the daily operations of the WritingCenter, including hiring, instruction, and supervision of student staff, facilitating writing support services across the disciplines, and assisting with intermediate writing assessment.
1989-1990Acting Director of Composition, Department of English, supervising English 101 teaching assistants, including team-teaching the Seminar in Teaching College Composition, as well as mentoring, supervising, and assessing twenty-five graduate TAs.
1984-1990Lecturer in the Department of English, teaching a range of courses at the 100 through 300 levels including Introduction to College Composition, Beginning Composition, Intermediate Expository Writing, Introduction to American Literature, and Introduction to Creative Non-fiction.
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1984-1989Academic Counselor andSummer Instructor in the Upward Bound Program advising high school seniors on financial aid and college curriculum planning; teaching Etymology to high school sophomores and juniors and Introduction to College Composition to first-quarter college students.
WhatcomCommunity College, Bellingham, WA:
Fall 1987Part-time instructor teaching College Composition.
1985-1986Assistant in the Reading and Study Skills Lab providing individual tutoring and
small group instruction in a lab setting.
Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA:
1986-1988Part-time instructor teaching Creative Writing to senior citizens.
Immaculate Conception Regional School, Mount Vernon, WA:
1979-1983Classroom instructor teaching grades three, six, and kindergarten.
Paul Luvera Jr. and Associates, Mount Vernon, WA:
1977-1979Paralegal preparing complex, personal injury litigation for trial.
AnacortesHigh School, Anacortes, WA:
1968-1970English teacher teaching literature and composition in grades ten, eleven, and twelve.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY. “Research with (not on) Students.” 18 March 2010.
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference, Bloomington, IN. Featured presentation – “Promising Practices for Partnering with Students in SoTL: Lessons Learned at Western Washington University.” 24 October 2009.
Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) Colloquium, Bloomington, IN. Plenary session and poster - “Engaging Student Voices in the Study of Teaching and Learning.” 21 October 2009.
Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. “The Pleasures of Teaching Composition: Reading and Responding to Student Writing.” 11 March 2009.
NASPA Conference.Seattle, WA. Co-presented with Residence Life staff - ‘From Programs to Learning Partnerships: Utilizing the Residential Experience to Foster Self-Authorship. 10 March 2009.
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference.Edmonton, Alberta. Co-presented with student Michael Murphyon “Dialogue as Assessment: A Case Study on Classroom Disruptions.” October 19, 2008.
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Douglas College. New Westminster, B.C. Co-presented with student Luke Ware on“Co-inquiry on Teaching and Learning with Students: Stories of Trials and Triumphs at WesternWashingtonUniversity.” 26 May 2008.
Conference on College Composition and Communication. “Telling Metaphors: A Study of Student Self-Authorship.” New Orleans, LA. 14March 2008.
CASTL Institutional Leadership Program, Student Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning convening.University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “Presenting a Research Agenda on Teaching and Learning at Western Washington University,” October 11-12, 2007.
Pacific Northwest Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Conference. Vancouver, WA,“From the Ground Up: Students in Partnership: a Conference in the Making – Wrinkles and All” and “Dialogue as Assessment,” co-presented with students from WWUTeaching-LearningAcademy. 3-4 May 2007.
Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence at the University of Alaska,Anchorage. “Conversational Scholarship: Opening Our Senses to Student Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.” Invited talk and workshop, co-presented with students from WWU Teaching-Learning Academy. 29-30 March 2007.
Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY. “What Our Artifacts Tell us About Who we Are.” 23 March 2007.
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference. Washington, D.C. “Dialogue, Student Voices, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.” 17 November 2006.
Annual International Conference on Service-Learning Resarch, From Passion to Objectivity: International and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Service-Learning Research. Portland, OR. Co-presenter with Shearlean Duke, Angela Harwood, Joyce Hammond, Kathleen Saunders, and Karen Stout on “Service-Learning as Gendered Pedagogy? So What”? 13-16 October 2006.
Carnegie Colloquium for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. “Inviting Students Into a Learning Commons: Dialogue and Co-Inquiry in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” Madison, WI, 1 April 2006.
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. “What We Want/They Want: Negotiating What Counts as Good Writing in An Age of Accountability,”24 March 2006.
Second International Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference. “Student Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: So What?” Vancouver, B.C., 16 October 2005.
Conference on College Composition and Communication on “Opening the Golden Gates: Access, Affirmative Action and Student Success.” San Francisco, CATwo sessions: “Moving Beyond Contact: Conversation as Inquiry, Invention, and Initiative in WAC and Beyond” and “Bringing Student Voices into Writing Assessment and Development Activities,”18-19 March 2005.
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Leading for Learning: Advancing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Institute. St. Martin’s College, Lacey, WA. “Implementing Interactive Structures for Organizational Change,” 21 January 2005.
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Bloomington, IN, “Student Voices: Why do They Matter in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? And What Kinds of Learning Matter to Them?” 23 October 2004.
Washington Center for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education Institute, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, “Student Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Co-Inquiry at WesternWashingtonUniversity,” 26-27 July 2004.
Carnegie Foundation/American Association of Higher Education Summer Academy, Stowe, VT, “Student Participation in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” workshop co-presented with cluster institutional partners, 13 July 2004.
Fifth Colloquium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Building Knowledge, Improving Learning, San Diego, CA, “Sustaining Student Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” cluster poster presentation, 31 March 2004.
Conference on College Composition and Communication,San Antonio, TX, “Turning Mandated Assessment into Development Opportunities: Assessment as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 26 March 2004.
Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY, “Dovetailing the Assessment of Writing with Other Core Competencies,” 20 March 2003.
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, “Statewide Assessment Initiatives: State of Washington Senior Writing Study and Faculty Development,”22 March 2002.
Washington Center Conference on the Improvement of Undergraduate Education, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, “Students Engaging Students,” 23 February 2002.
Writing Across the Curriculum National Conference, Bloomington, IN, “LIT: Literacy, Inquiry, and Technology in a First-Year Interest Group,” 1 June 2001.
Pacific Northwest Higher Education Assessment Conference, Spokane, WA, “The Course Portfolio,” 3 May 2001.
NorthwestRegionalWritingCenter Conference, Bellingham, WA, “Avoiding the Big ‘But’ in Writing Conferences,” 7 April 2001.
American Association of Higher Education Conference, Carnegie Campus Conversations Colloquium, Washington, D.C., “When the Going Gets Public, the Students Get Going,” 24 March 2001.
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Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, CO, workshop on “Learning Communities as New Institutional Contexts for Writing Instruction” and special interest group presentation on “Statewide Writing Assessment Initiatives,” 15 March 2001.
Washington Center for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education Conference, Seattle, WA, “Toward a Culture of Learning: Ideas for Initiating, Sustaining, and Assessing a Campus Change Project,” 23 February 2001.
American Association of Higher EducationSummerAcademy, Snowbird, UT, “Integrating the Student Voice in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Western Washington University,” 20 July 2000.
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, MN, “Revamping Mandated Writing Assessment,” 15 April 2000.
Carnegie Campus Conversations Colloquium, American Association of Higher Education, Annaheim, CA, “Integrating a Student Voice in the Campus Conversations,” 28 March 2000.
Feminist Rhetoric(s) Conference, Minneapolis, MI, “The Rhetoric and Reality of (Wo)mentoring:
Extending the Conversation,” 8 October 1999.
WashingtonState Higher Education Conference on Assessment, Spokane, WA, “Trying Out A
Discipline-Based Writing Rubric,” 6 May 1999.
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, “A Writing Teacher’s
Influence in Cluster Courses,” 26 March 1999.
Conference for the Improvement of Graduate Education in the Sciences, National Science Foundation,
Washington, D.C., “Using Writing to Teach Introductory Lab Courses in the Sciences,” 30 June 1998.
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, “A Rhetorical Stance Toward WAC or the Ethics of it all,” 4 April 1998.
WashingtonCenter Conference on Embracing Contraries in Learning Communities, Seattle, WA, “A Confab on Linked Courses,” 28 Feb. 1998.
Faculty Development Series, WesternWashingtonUniversity, “Using Writing to Enhance Teaching
and Learning,” 5 Feb. 1998.
ThirdNationalWritingCenter Association Conference, Park City, UT, “Assuming Authority in
Concentric Rings of Influence: Conference, Course, and Campus,” 20 Sept. 1997.
WashingtonState Higher Education Conference on Assessment, Spokane, WA, “Call Waiting on
Writing Assessment: Voices of Writing Teachers,” 9 May 1997.
Third National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Charleston, SC, “The Cluster Course: A WAC Model in the Works,” 3 Feb. 1997.
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Pacific Coast Writing Center Association Conference, Portland, OR, “Using Curriculum-based Group Conferences in the Writing Center,” 2 Nov. 1996.
Washington State Higher Education Conference on Assessment, Seattle, WA, “Versions and Visions of Writing Assessment Around the State,” 16 May 1996.
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, WI, “Using Writing in General
Ed Classes—No Matter What the Size,” 28 March 1996.
PacificCoastWritingCenter Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, “Faculty Expectations of
the WritingCenter,” 21 Oct. 1995.
Second Annual Celebrating Learning Symposium, Western Washington University, “Writing as
Learning in the GURs,” 21 Sept. 1995.
First National Writing Center Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, “An In-formative Method
For Tutor Assessment,” 16 April 1994.
American Association of University Professors Workshop, WesternWashingtonUniversity, “Write-
to-Learn Strategies Across the Curriculum,” 12 Feb. 1990.
National Conference on Student-Centered Learning, Bellingham, WA, “Using Pretense to Get to
Reality in the Teaching of Writing,” 11 Oct. 1988.
SELECTED CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
Annual Summer Academy, American Association of Higher Education, Snowbird, VT, “Enhancing General Education Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” 17-21 July 2002.
Writing Pedagogy Forum, UW, Bothell, WA, “Making Assessment Work For Us,” 25 May 2001.
Learning Community Coordinator Conference, sponsored by the WashingtonCenter for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education, Tacoma, WA, “Designing Quality Learning Communities,” 20 October 2000.
National Learning Communities Conference, WashingtonCenter for Undergraduate Education, Seattle, WA, “Transforming Learning,” Seattle, WA, 20-22 May 1999.
State Assessment Coordinators’ Symposium on Improving Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum
Through Assessment, “Assessing Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression,” Leavenworth,
WA, 1-2 Nov. 1998.
“Critical Thinking: Basic Theory and Instructional Structures,” Bellingham, WA, facilitated by Dr. Jerry Nosich, Center for Critical Thinking, SonomaState University, 17 Sept.1998.
State Assessment Coordinators’ Symposium on Improving Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum
Through Assessment, “Assessing Collaborative Learning,” Leavenworth, WA, 1-2 Nov. 1997.
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National Gathering: Invisible College Conference on Service-Learning, as representative for the
Provost, Denver, CO, 13-16 June 1997.
WashingtonCenter Conference, “Technology on a Human Scale: Teaching and Learning in the
Information Age,” Seattle, WA, 14-5 Feb.1997.
State Assessment Coordinators’ Symposium on Improving Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum
Through Assessment, “Becoming a Self-Reflective Learner,” Ellensburg, WA, 14-5 Nov.1996.
PUBLICATIONS
Werder, Carmen. “Fostering Self-Authorship for Citizenship: Telling Metaphors in Dialogue.”
Citizenship Across the Curriculum, Smith, Michael B., Nowacek, Rebecca S., and Bernstein, Jeffrey L., eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010).
Werder, Carmen, et al. “Students in Parlor Talk on Teaching and Learning: Conversational Scholarship.” Engaging Student Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Carmen Werder and Megan Otis, Eds. Stylus (2009)
Werder, Carmen. “Students as Co-Inquirers.” Letters to the Editor. Change Magazine. November/December 2008.
Werder, Carmen. “Conversational Scholarship and Student Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.” International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) newletter, January, 2007.
Werder, Carmen, Ed. Sustaining Student Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Cluster CD-Rom, April 2006:
Werder, Carmen. Sustaining Student Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Cluster Snapshot, June 2006.
Werder, Carmen, co-authored with Angela Harwood, et al. “Communities for Growth: Cultivating and Sustaining Service-Learning Teaching and Scholarship in a Faculty Fellows Program,” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. Fall 2005.
Werder, Carmen. “What Matters Over Time: Documenting Student Learning” in Campus Progress: Supporting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Barbara Cambridge, editor, AAHE, 2004.
Werder, Carmen, Redmond, PJ, Purdue, Jeff, and Patrick, K. “Creating a Reflective Space: The Teaching-LearningAcademy at WesternWashingtonUniversity.” Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education Newsletter, Fall 2003, 38-40.
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Bulcroft, Kris, Werder, Carmen, and Glenn Gilliam. “Student Voices in the Campus Conversation,” Inventio: Creative Thinking About Learning and Teaching. Fairfax,VA, June 2002.
Werder, Carmen. “Rhetorical Agency: Seeing the Ethics of It All,” Writing Program Administration: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, (Fall/Winter 2001) 24.1/2
Sullivan, John and Carmen Werder. “Going Public: ElonCollege and WesternWashingtonUniversity,” AAHE Bulletin: A Publication of the American Association for Higher Education (Nov. 2000) 53.3: 13-14
Werder, Carmen. Review of Writing Analytically by David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen, paid review for Harcourt Brace & Company, May 1998.
Werder, Carmen and Donna Qualley. “Assessing Writing at Western,” Dialogue, newsletter of the Office of Institutional Assessment and Testing, Western Washington University, December 1998.
Werder, Carmen. “We Whined; We Went; We Wonder: Reflections on a Writing Assessment Pilot Project,” WAG, newsletter of the Washington Assessment Group, November 1998.
Werder, Carmen and Roberta Buck. “Assessing Writing Conference Talk: An Ethnographic Method,” Writing Center Perspectives, Byron Stay, Christina Murphy, and Eric Hobson, eds, National Writing Center Association Press, 1995.
Werder, Carmen. “Cultivating Commitment: The Source of Writing Energy,” Minnesota English Journal, Winter-Spring 1985-86.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Metaphors in Teaching and Learning: ongoing research into the role of articulating personal metaphors in developing rhetorical agency and self-understanding. Extension of Carnegie Scholar study.
Engaging students as co-inquirers in the scholarship of teaching and learning: extension of CarnegieAcademy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) institutional leadership work.
Creating a Culture of Reflection:ongoing investigation of the role of reflective practices in improving student learning and in advancing institutional change initiatives.