WAC Leadership
Coordinators
Tyler Schmidt
Tyler Schmidt is an Associate Professor of English and 2018-19 co-coordinator of the WAC program at Lehman. His academic interests include African American literature, race and sexuality studies, American poetry, rhetoric and composition, and critical pedagogy. (office CA-397; phone 718-960-8529; email tyler.schmidt@lehman.cuny.edu)
Robyn C. Spencer
Robyn C. Spencer is an Associate Professor of History at Lehman College where she teaches courses on the Black freedom movement.
Her areas of research include Civil rights and Black Power, urban and working-class radicalism, and gender. Her writings on the Black Panther
Party have appeared in the Journal of Women's History, Souls, Radical Teacher and many collections of essays on the 1960s. Her book
The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, on gender and the organizational evolution of
the Black Panther Party in Oakland was published by Duke University Press in November 2016. She is a graduate of the year-long Writing
Across the Curriculum Program at Lehman, a former member of the WAC Advisory Council and a supporter of many grassroots history education
initiatives. (office CA-299; phone 718-960-2268; email robyn.spencer@lehman.cuny.edu)
Jessica Yood
Jessica Yood is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Lehman College and at the CUNY Graduate Center and 2018-19 co-coordinator of the WAC program at Lehman. One of Lehman WAC's first coordinators, Prof. Yood also served as a leader for CUNY-wide WAC initiatives from 2000-2011. Yood’s curriculum and teaching guides have been used in WAC professional development, in the M.A. program in Composition and Rhetoric, and for digital humanities initiatives at Lehman College and CUNY-wide. Her scholarship on rhetorical and cultural theory and the history of English studies is published in book collections and several journals including College English, Enculturation, JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics, Composition Forum, JBW: The Journal of Basic Writing, and The Society for Critical Exchange. She is currently working on a book about a sabbatical year she spent as a student of first year composition. She blogs about this book and about literacy, contemporary culture, and higher education at www.jessicayood.com. In 2015 Prof. Yood was named Lehman College Teacher of the Year. (office CA-399; phone 718-960-8530; email jessica.yood@lehman.cuny.edu
Faculty Development Associate
Kultej Dhariwal
Kultej Dhariwal is a PhD candidate in the English program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. For his dissertation project, he is exploring the political aspects of narrative form in recent writing about the city of Mumbai. He has taught courses in literature and composition at Lehman College since 2011.
The Writing Across the Curriculum Advisory Committee
The WAC Advisory Committee (WAC-AC) provides support and direction to the WAC initiative. WAC-AC’s charge is to assist WAC in 1) expanding its scope to include all academic departments, 2) planning and conducting college-wide faculty development initiatives, and 3) working with the Office of Institutional Research to assess the impact that WAC is having on Lehman’s student population. WAC-AC meets monthly and includes many of the faculty and administrators involved in Lehman’s Coordinated Undergraduate Education Initiative (CUE). In addition to the WAC coordinators, members of WAC-AC include the Provost, the Dean of Arts & Humanities, current and former department chairs, and faculty/ administrators who direct the Freshman Year Initiative, Instructional Support Services, the College Curriculum Committees (undergraduate and graduate), General Education Initiative, CPE coordination, and CUE.
Current members include:
- Prof. Stefan Becker, Earth, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences/Vice Provost, Academic Programs
- Sandra Campeanu, Psychology
- Prof. Tiffany DeJaynes, Middle and High School Education
- Kultej Dhariwal, English/WAC Faculty Development Associate
- Harriet Fayne, Interim Provost & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
- Althea Forde, Director, Instructional Support Services
- Prof. Sharon Freedberg, Social Work/Interim Associate Dean, School of Health Sciences, Human Services and Nursing
- Prof. Amanda Gulla, Middle and High School Education
- Jane Higgins, Director, New York City Writing Project
- Prof. Dene Hurley, Chair, Economics and Business
- Jaye Jones, Executive Director, Institute for Literacy Studies/WAC Coordinator
- Melissa Kirk, Chief of Staff to Provost, Academic Affairs
- Suzanne Libfield, Director, New York City Mathematics Project
- Prof. Paula Loscocco, Chair, English
- Prof. Carl Mazza, Chair, Social Work
- Prof. Pamela Mills, Chair, Chemistry
- Patricia Mullen, Director, Adult Learning Center
- Prof. Vincent Prohaska, Psychology/Chair, WAC-AC
- Gautam Sen, Dean, School of Natural and Social Sciences
- Prof. Robyn Spencer, History/WAC Coordinator
- Prof. Duane Tananbaum, History
- Mark Tuasig, Dean of Health Sciences, Human Services and Nursing
- Lynne van Voorhis, Assistant Dean, International Programs and Global Partnerships/CUE Coordinator
- Prof. Elin Waring, Chair, Sociology
- Prof. Esther Wilder, Sociology
- Prof. Steven Wyckoff, English/Director, Freshman Year Initiative (FYI)
