for writing instruction
Dean Richard H. Brodhead has announced that Alfred Guy Jr., currently director of the expository writing program at The Johns Hopkins University, will become the director of the new center for writing instruction in Yale College, effective July 1.
"The search committee was unanimous in its choice of Mr. Guy, and having interviewed him myself, I was not surprised," wrote Brodhead in a letter to the Yale College community. "He speaks about writing instruction with intelligence and passion, and he'll work energetically and imaginatively with faculty throughout the College to strengthen this crucial aspect of education."
The new writing center director earned a bachelor's degree in English at Harvard College and a doctorate, also in English, from New York University (NYU). He brings to Yale significant experience in the teaching of writing across the curriculum and in writing program administration. Before becoming head of the expository writing program at Johns Hopkins, he was associate director of the Princeton writing program and had also been associate director of the NYU expository writing program, where he twice won awards for courses he helped to design and teach in such fields as literature, history, philosophy and religious studies.
Guy says he is looking forward to helping to implement the curricular reforms called for in the recently approved report from the Committee on Yale College Education, which include a requirement that, beginning with the Class of 2009, every candidate for a bachelor's degree successfully complete two courses that give attention to the development of writing skills.
"Instruction in writing helps students develop habits of mind that enrich every aspect of their lives," Guy says, "and I've always seen my engagement with writing as a commitment to the mission of the liberal arts."
The establishment of a center for writing instruction was called for in a report on expository writing presented to the Yale College faculty in 2002 by Professor Linda H. Peterson, the Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English and longtime chair of the Committee on Expository Writing. According to Peterson, "The new writing center will continue and expand the successful programs of the past: the writing tutorial program in the residential colleges, 'Daily Themes' in the English department, and the 'Writing Intensive' courses throughout the curriculum. But with a new director and a new undergraduate curriculum, we expect to see innovative approaches to teaching writing emerge throughout Yale College, both in regular courses and 'outside the box' in non-curricular forms."
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