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I just completed all my classes for UWW at Amherst and now I am working on my concentration classes and boy is there a difference! I loved every one of my UWW classes! The professors are so present, so organized, so on top of their actions and all the t are crossed and Is are dotted! What a pleasure to have had such a caliver of guidance and tough but so fair and present! I loved my UWW at Amherst experience and I recommend it highly. Not for one minute did I feel like I was not getting such value for my money! Now, not so much!
I’ve been faculty at four progressive education schools (including 1 with UWW), and I am anxious to get a retrospective perspective on how writing and social support mechanisms evolved over the years.
Welcome, Bethe! In the WP-Files database, which you should see (let me know if you don’t), we’ve scanned UWW/UMass handbooks from 1979 and from 1983/4 (I have more, but we haven’t gotten them scanned yet). The first is from before there was a writing class to support the portfolio process at UWW/UMass, the second is from just after that class began. There’s also an old portfolio planning tool from the days when each portfolio was written as an individual project with the adviser. Of course, social supports were/are many in addition to the writing and degree development classes. But the integration of teaching and advising that those two classes represented, geared as they were towards peer learning and community building, was powerfully supportive and often transformative. More so than when portfolios were written as independent studies, I think.
We also have a handbook from UWW-Ohio/UECU on the site. And a dissertation from UWW-LA/UECU. But feel free to browse!
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