Looking back on Calderwood Writing Seminars
In Spring 2021, we surveyed all students who had taken a Calderwood Public Writing Seminar in the past three years, asking them to look back at their experience.
Research and Results
The positive externalities of the QAC
We estimated how many students the Quantitative Analysis Center exposes to quantitative work who might not otherwise have experienced it.
Learning how to edit someone else’s work
We studied what students who took Calderwood Public Writing seminars learned from their experience.
First-year students & their writing “problems”
We examined what first-year students worry about in regard to their writing.
Students can talk
We looked at senior survey results to learn about what students believe Wesleyan contributed to their growth in oral communication skills.
On students’ moderate writing confidence
We asked our Writing in the First students about was how confident they were in their writing ability.
First Year Seminars – trends in offerings and enrollments.
The number of First Year Seminars (FYSs) that we teach at Wesleyan has risen dramatically since 2013.
The impact of Jewish Studies at Wesleyan
In Spring 2021, we spoke to six alumni who had passed through courses and other programming offered by Wesleyan’s Center for Jewish Studies.
Double trouble? Patterns in double majoring at Wesleyan
In Spring 2021, Institutional Research presented to Division 1 about trends in double majoring at Wesleyan.
Library-related behavior and the First Year Seminar
We asked FYS students to tell us what they learn about the library.
