WAC Awards
The "WAC Achievement Award" has been renamed the "Teresa Kelly WAC Achievement Award" in honor of her dedication to our students' success. Please use this form to remember our dear colleague by recognizing the achievements of our PG students.
FS_WAC_Keathley WAC Awards Announcement 6 2021.pdfFor information about the student and PG employee awards, please review the slide deck to the left from the formal announcement of the WAC Awards during the 2021 Literary Festival and/or contact the WAConcierge@purdueglobal.edu for more information.
Please use this form to make your nomination(s) for compositions published, presented, or otherwise shared between May 1, 2023, and April 30, 2024. Review the award criteria carefully, and nominate a work for only one award. Winners will be announced during the 2024 PG Literary Festival.
Past award winners may be viewed below.
Thank you.
--The WAC Advisory Committee
2023 Writing Across the Curriculum Award Winners
The Global Writing Award: Sara Baird, "A Voice for Change"
The Transformational Writing “Make a Difference” Award (Employee): Josef Vice and Stephen Velky, “Creating the Inclusive Classroom: Supporting LGBTQIA2+Students- Content and Climate”
The Transformational Writing “Make a Difference” Award (Student): Philip Light, “Native Brook Trout Conservation in Pennsylvania”
The WAC Achievement Award: Jesse Blevins, “Mission First, Never Quit: Inefficacies of Military Mental Healthcare”
The WAC/STEM Award: Mary Bruce, “The Use of Random Data in Online Discussion Boards to Promote Student Understanding of Sampling Distributions”
2022 Writing Across the Curriculum Award Winners
The Transformational Writing "Make a Difference" Award (PG Employees) Jane McElligott, John Berube, and Sait Tarhan: Bridging Disciplines by Studying the Relentless Pursuit of the Right to Vote
The Global Writing Award: Lauren Harmison, "Rural Medicine Meets Adapted Camp"
The Transformation Writing "Make a Difference" Award (Student): Margaret McClendon, "Climate Change: Making Schools a Better Place for LGBTQIA+ Students"
The WAC Achievement Award: Joan Harrison, "Unit 8 Assignment: Persuasive Essay"