ABSTRACT
The writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) movement has entered a new stage. Earlier surveys of WAC programs only sampled American colleges. In this chapter, the author describes how WAC successful programs have survived and changed with the years, and speculates about the future of the WAC movement as indicated by the direction of these continuing programs. Programs that have successfully negotiated the funding rapids report that key administrators are usually responsible for making sure that essential funding is provided internally. Finally, there is an issue not dealt with directly by the author survey, but which has come up in anecdotal comments at the meetings of the National Network of Writing Across the Curriculum Programs and which deserves further study-the matter of change and faculty resistance to it. The idea and the practice of writing to learn goes against the predominant paradigm of education in the university, which valorizes the teacher-centered lecture class.
