Beyond WAC: Transforming Institutions, Transforming WAC through Deep Change

The WAC movement has historically aimed to foster changes in student writing experiences and abilities, but few in WAC work have engaged explicitly with change theories as a way to understand their goals and document evidence of their program’s impact. This article argues for WAC leaders to adopt a “deep change” approach to understand how their programs contribute to changing an institution’s culture of writing. After elaborating on Adrianna Kezar’s (2018) description of deep change, I identify four strategies that WAC leaders can adopt to enact deep change at their universities. This approach enables WAC leaders to change persistent attitudes that have historically been seen as obstacles to changing writing pedagogy and curriculum.