Year: 2024

UW-Madison: Research on Generative AI in Technical Communication Program

The Technical Communication Program in the College of Engineering at UW–Madison is currently undertaking research on approaches to teaching ethics and, in Nathan Jung‘s case, generative AI. For the latter work on AI, Jung is looking at field research on how students use the technology, and/or how the technology is being used in workplaces. Jung …

Sophie Boes, Undergraduate Writing Fellow, publishes in Xchanges

Sophie Boes, an Undergraduate Writing Fellow and member of the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Lab at UW–Madison, recently published an article for Xchanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum! The article, titled “‘Conversation at the Boundaries Between Communities’: An Examination of Tutor and Peer Review Effectiveness Based on Commenting …

Humanities NOW: Public Universities, Legislatures, and Academic Freedom

Dr. Michael Bernard-Donals, the Executive Director of the CTRW, will be speaking at the upcoming “Humanities NOW” event through the Center for the Humanities at UW–Madison to discuss public universities, legislatures, and academic freedom. The event takes place April 10, 2024 from 5:30-7 in Elvehjem Building, Room L140. Please see a description of the event …

CTRW @ 2024 CCCC Annual Convention

Join us for the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s (CCCC/NCTE) 2023 Annual Convention: The “Navigating Writing, Navigating History” panel examines the historical, material, and ideological forces that buffet the creation of centers for research and teaching of writing, focusing on the creation of a new center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and comparing the …

Racial Justice Grants – Nathan Cummings Foundation

Racial Justice Grants – Nathan Cummings Foundation The foundation’s vision for racial justice is the removal of structural barriers and hierarchies based on race, and to reimagine political, economic, and social systems in ways that allow all people to thrive. The foundation supports organizations that address civic engagement, racial wealth gap, and racism + oppression. …

A Public Affair Interview: Michael Bernard-Donals on the Vulnerability of Higher Education

Dr. Michael Bernard-Donals, the Executive Director of the CTRW, was recently interviewed by Diego Alegría, a PhD Candidate in Literary Studies at UW–Madison and Mellon-Public Humanities Fellow, about Bernard-Donals’ recent book The Vulnerability of Higher Education (2023). Bernard-Donals and Alegría discuss the ongoing precarity in higher education that has become more common in recent years. “We’re talking …

Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) 

Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)  For its next research grants deadline, RSF will accept letters of inquiry under any of its core programs and special initiatives: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. RSF will also accept LOIs relevant …