SUNY Council on Writing

About the SUNY Council on Writing

The SUNY Council on Writing was formed in 1980 with the central purpose of helping each SUNY system college generate, discuss, and disseminate new ideas about writing instruction. Each SUNY branch selects two of its faculty members to serve as official representatives to the group. By sharing ideas, by seeing and learning what each institution is doing as its programs evolve, representatives and other interested faculty grow professionally as well as institutionally. The Council on Writing supports the position of the Task Force on Assessment that program improvement is primary and reporting for accountability is secondary. Over the years, SUNY Council on Writing has taken a stand on issues related to the profession and has made those positions known to instructors of writing and to administrators at all levels. Treatment of part-time faculty, writing assessment, and pedagogical as well as administrative issues concern the Council, and are among the issues which affect writing program goals and assessments in varying but crucial ways on all campuses.