WIC Redevelopment

Core Education successfully launched this academic year following a multi-year implementation effort. Faculty played a central role in developing new learning outcomes, criteria, and rationale (LOCR) for all Core Education categories with the exception of the Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC). We are now revising the WIC LOCR to bring it into alignment with other Core Education categories.

We had enthusiastic interest in the WIC Learning Outcome, Criteria, and Rationale (LOCR) Redevelopment Committee, with applicants representing all undergraduate degree-granting colleges and campuses.

Meet the WIC LOCR Redevelopment Committee

  • LOCR Mentor: Kendon Kurzer, Director of the Writing Intensive Curriculum Program

  • Assessment Liaison: Kristin Nagy Catz, Director of Assessment

  • Agricultural Sciences: Penny Diebel, Professor  

  • Business: John Morris, Senior Instructor II

  • Earth, Ocean, Atmospheric Sciences: Andrea Allen, Senior Instructor II

  • Education: Sara Wright, Senior Instructor

  • Engineering: Judy Liu, Professor, and Kirsten Winters, Senior Instructor I

  • Forestry: Stacy Rosenberg, Assistant Professor of Teaching  

  • Health: Sam Logan, Professor

  • Liberal Arts: Kristy Kelly, Assistant Professor of Teaching, and Kimary Fick, Senior Instructor I

  • Science: Lauren Dalton, Senior Instructor I

  • Cascades: Pat Ball, Senior Instructor II

LOCR Mentor: Kendon Kurzer, Director of the Writing Intensive Curriculum Program 

  • The WIC Director will facilitate the writing of measurable student learning outcomes and guide the workgroup through the development process.

Assessment Liaison: Kristin Nagy Catz, Director of Assessment 

  • The Assessment Liaison serves in a collaborative and supportive role to the Mentors and Developers. They are responsible for ensuring the final LOCRs fit within the charge and assessment parameters and are completed by the intended due dates. Before the workgroup meetings, the Assessment Liaisons ensures the Developers and Mentors have the tools, resources, and training needed to develop LOCRs. 

WIC LOCR Timeline

Academic Year 2025-26

  • Announcement of WIC LOCR/Application goes out – Target of October 31st 

  • Application due date – November 14

  • Selection – Week of November 21 

  • Communication to selected applicants and schedule meetings – week of November 24

  • WIC LOCR Committee starts meeting –  First week of winter term, January 5 

  • Draft of LOCR from committee due – March 2

  • Community forum – Dead Week – week of March 9
  • Any potential revisions from the forum due – March 27
  • Present the final draft to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee – April 2
  • Senate presentation – April 16
  • Senate vote – May 14

This multi-year project aims to launch the revised WIC courses in the 2028–2029 academic year. 

Implementation

We are creating a multi-year implementation phase following the approval of the WIC LOCRs, with an anticipated launch of all newly redesigned WIC courses in summer 2028. More information will be shared as the WIC LOCR process develops. 

Please see FAQs below to learn more. 

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The WIC LOCR Workgroup will select the Developers based on a Rubric. 
  • The goal is to have a faculty member from each college with undergraduate programs represented. 
  • The LOCR Developer and Mentors will be selected using the rubric developed by the WIC LOCR Workgroup. The selection committee members are:
    • Andrew Valls, Faculty Senate President
    • Kelsey Emard, Core Education Committee Co-chair
    • Brian Mills, Core Education Committee Co-chair
    • Kendon Kurzer, Director of the Writing Intensive Curricular Program
    • Kristin Nagy Catz, Director of Assessment 
    • McKenzie Huber, Director of Core Education 

The Faculty Senate will review and vote on the WIC LOCR.

We are planning on hosting a community forum to share the WIC LOCR draft before the presentation at the Faculty Senate. OSU community members will have the opportunity to give feedback and the WIC LOCR committee will have time to make necessary edits. 

Units that would like to make changes to an existing WIC or propose a new WIC course before the redevelopment of the WIC LOCR may do so; however, the course will need to go back through the CIM system once the WIC LOCRs are redeveloped. It may make more sense to wait until the revised WIC LOCR is approved. Please feel free to reach out to Kendon Kurzer or McKenzie Huber if you would like to discuss the best path forward while the WIC LOCRs are under redevelopment.