June 8 

Today's goal: To continue working on organizing docs for a time line.

For the third WAC moment, I am still organizing all the emails and documents into a timeline from Feb 2020 until August 2021 for a time line. I'm realizing that were the following key events from my point of view: 

 1) The acceptance by CLAS of 5 Writing University pre-proposals of very different proposals and proposers, tasked by CLAS to work together on a Mega-proposal for the P3; 

2) The formation of an Obermann Writing University working group composed of the 5 proposing teams to put together that megaproposal; 

3) The surprise of finding out another parallel committee was tasked by the Provost with the same writing/communication mission as ours: the Writing and Communications Committee 

4) Getting myself and other Rhetoric people on that committee; repurposing the Obermann Working Group to focus only on Teaching with Writing across the Curriculum, finding out about Minnesota's program, etc.

5) The second surprise of finding out that there was no source of funding from the Provost's Office for that Writing and Communication committee's proposals and that the only funding available was P3 funding;

6) Working with Rhetoric faculty and CLAS and the rest of the Writing and Communications Committee to put together the P3 proposal, believing what they told us that anything we put together would be accepted.

7) Finding out that the P3 Writing and Communication Proposal was rejected but not finding out why, except that it was rushed and didn't have enough metrics for measuring success.