AI Policies Require Collaboration. Here's How to Do It.

"It started, like many academic stories do these days, with an inbox full of emails about generative AI. Some were excited ("You have to try this!"), some worried ("How do we stop this?") and some baffled ("What even is this?"). If you work in writing instruction, you probably got some version of them, too. What we didn't see coming was how quickly these conversations would shift from AI itself to something harder:"

"Writing Across the Curriculum folks have been in this business for decades. Even if your institution doesn't have a formal WAC program, you might have WAC faculty around you working as directors of writing centers or as colleagues eager to talk about your assignments during Senate meetings. Our job is to bridge academic worlds: chemistry to art history, first-year seminars to senior capstones."

Generative AI provoked excitement, worry, and confusion among faculty, quickly shifting conversations from technical questions to the challenge of uniting colleagues with divergent comfort levels, teaching approaches, and institutional priorities. Composition-across-the-curriculum practitioners specialize in bridging disciplines and facilitating dialogue about composing as central to student learning. WAC leaders act as curious, facilitative interlocutors who ask difficult questions, listen with genuine curiosity, and help colleagues connect across courses and programs. AWAC released an initial composition-and-AI statement in January 2023 and published a substantially updated, more robust statement in August 2025, reflecting both content and collaborative process.

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