For Liaisons

For the department liaisons, up to three faculty a department chooses to run WOLF locally. One workbook carries the work from first consultation to certification, and the department's Writing and Speaking Curriculum Plan comes out of it.

Open the WOLF Workbook Request the first consultation (opens in a new window)

What liaisons do

Liaisons are the department's point of contact with Kirsti Cole and Roy Schwartzman at CWSP. You facilitate; you do not produce everything yourself. You connect CWSP to your colleagues, translate disciplinary context into curriculum decisions, and keep the work moving between consultations. You need institutional knowledge of your department and enough trust from colleagues to hold an honest conversation about the curriculum. Expertise in writing pedagogy is CWSP's job. The plan that results belongs to your department, and departments that complete the program earn CWSP certification. Each liaison (up to three per department or program) receives $1,000.

WOLF is patterned on the University of Minnesota's Writing-Enriched Curriculum model: faculty-driven, department-owned, built over two to three years at the department's own pace.

Stage 1 · Inquiry · about one semester
Where are we?

Confirm your role, gather syllabi, run a short needs assessment, find where AI already sits in the curriculum, and reflect on what the inquiry showed.

Produces a picture of the curriculum as it stands, filed with CWSP.
Stage 2 · Design · two to three semesters
What should be different?

With CWSP, faculty write the discipline's writing and speaking outcomes by level, map them to courses, and fold in AI literacy outcomes.

Produces the Writing and Speaking Curriculum Plan, generated from your answers, ready for the chair to approve.
Stage 3 · Evidence · about two semesters
How do we know it is working?

Implement the plan, collect assessment evidence with adapted rubrics, nominate colleagues for recognition, and submit the certification documents.

Produces certification, recognition letters, and $1,000 for each liaison.

How the workbook works

  • Work in the browser. It saves as you type, and "Save and email me a link" lets you continue on any computer.
  • Each stage ends with a submission. CWSP receives it, files a formatted copy in your department's folder, and emails the copy to you as a Word file and a PDF.
  • The sidebar shows which stage is current, which are done, and which lie ahead, from the dates you set.
  • All three stages are open. A department works through them over two to three years, and each submission is kept.
AI Literacies track

A department can enter WOLF through AI Literacies. The faculty workbook runs in three clusters (consultations, policy review, curricular mapping), and the three-level framework sets out the literacy the track builds.

Faculty workbook The framework About the track
AI Policy Lab

A three-hour workshop in which faculty read, analyze, and draft AI policy at course, program, and department levels, with a participant workbook and a decision tool for institutional cases.

Policy workbook About the lab
Source documents

The workbook is built from these documents, which remain available as the originals. The workbook is the maintained version.

Questions about the workbook or your engagement? Contact Kirsti Cole at CWSP.