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Robert B. McMaster, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor of Geography, serves as the WEC Project’s Co-Principal Investigator. From 2002-2005 he served as Associate Dean for Planning in the College of Liberal Arts, and from 2005-2008, he served as Chair of the Department of Geography.
Pamela Flash, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum and Associate Director of the Center for Writing, directs the WEC Project and serves as its Co-Principal Investigator.  Since 1991, she has taught undergraduate courses in writing and communication and graduate courses in writing pedagogy at the University of Minnesota. She continues to facilitate faculty and graduate student seminars, workshops, and consultations on topics relating to writing and writing instruction.
Audrey Appelsies, Assessment Coordinator for the WEC Project, conducts programmatic assessment for the University of Minnesota and the Bush Foundation and assists pilot units in assessing their Writing Plans.

Angela Sprunger, Administrative Coordinator for the WEC project, manages the project’s communications and data, and assists academic units engaged as pilots.
Darryn Beckstrom, RA for the WEC project, assists with student writing sampling collection project. She is currently a J.D candidate at the University of Minnesota and a PhD candidate in political science and the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison.
Zachary Casey, RA for the WEC project, assists with sampling, summarizing and gathering assessment data. He is a PhD student in Culture and Teaching in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota.
George Nyarangi, Webmaster for the WEC project, develops and maintains the project's website. He is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the Univeristy of Minnesota.
Bill Condon, Professor of English at Washington State University, serves as the WEC Project’s External Evaluator. In this role, he conducts regular site visits, advises the project, and reports annually to the Bush Foundation on the project’s process and progress. His teaching and publications focus on writing assessment, critical thinking, electronic communication, and writing across the curriculum administration.

Cohort 1
Martin Sampson: Political Science
Will Durfee:
Mechanical Engineering

Cohort 2
Emily Hoover: Horticultural Science
Lisa Norling: History
Becky Yust: Design, Housing, and Apparel

Cohort 3
Sarah Hobbie: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Linda Herrick: Nursing
George Henderson: Geography
Maria Emilce Lopez: Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Cohort 4
Margaret Werry: Theatre & Dance
Robin Wright & Leslie Schiff: College of Biological Sciences

Cohort 5
Walt Jacobs: African American & African Studies
Moira Petit: Kinesiology

 
Robin Brown (Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature), William Durfee (Mechanical Engineering), Emily Hoover (Horticulture), Alon McCormick (Chemical Engineering), Claudia Neuhauser (Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior), Martin Sampson (Political Science), Art Walzer (Rhetoric/Writing Studies), Barbara Welke (History)

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