Box 1:

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) 1981 - 1995.  Includes complete set of Writing to Learn, 1988 - 1994.

Box 2:

Syllabi for Humanities Core Courses:

• Life and Death
• Humanities Symposium featuring the work of James Adams, Robert Jones, Mary McNees, Kendall Rogers, Scott Strode and Larry Underberg.
• Beauty and Ugliness.
• Good and Evil.
• Arts and Ideas.

All during the 1970's, beginning in 1969, Manchester College developed courses in the humanities and maybe courses in the social sciences as well, but Professor Klingler was involved in the humanities courses that combined the ideas outlined above.  These met a general education requirement.  Students were required to take these core courses.  This came from an old idea that the Univeresity of Chicago used years ago.

Master's Thesis, Susan Dodson, May 1977. "Women and American Society," A Master's Project Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Manchester College.

"Oak Leaves," announcing new professors as MC faculty members, including Charles Klingler biography. 

Martin Prizes, 1988 - 1993.

English Department Newsletters, 1983 - 1993.

Dr. Doris Garey Reading Lists.

Statements by Charles Klingler on Department, Division and College Matters.

Independent Study Program ( a list of the year 1960 - 1961).

Writing Across the Curriculum - The Concept

The premise of the program, “Writing Across the Curriculum,” was based on the concept that all teachers are teachers of writing.  In other words, no matter what the subject, writing is an important aspect of teaching.  There was general agreement about this concept on campus and a program was set up to help faculty, other than English faculty who did this type of thing all the time, become an adjunct to students who were learning how to write.

Writing Across the Curriculum 1981 – 1995

The trend, or movement, for this type of writing instruction was in the academic “air” at many schools and a WAC curriculum was set up on campus of which Professor Klingler was a member.   Eventually, during the latter part of the program he would become chairman and finally, grant director.

 A member of the College faculty, Professor Buzzard, attended a conference off-campus where he was inspired by the story of Professor Anne Loux, an English professor at St. Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana.   Loux had actually taken initiative and had done something to promote a WAC program at her institution.  Buzzard returned to share Loux’s story with colleagues at Manchester.

Jim Pitts, the Academic Dean, and Professor Klingler, composed a grant proposal and submitted it to the Lilly Corporation.  When representatives from Lilly came to campus for an interview, Dean Pitts asked Professor Klinger to be the spokesperson for the College and to lead the group’s discussion.   Needless to say the grant was received and Pitts asked Klingler to direct it.

The grant lasted 3 years.   There were 3 workshops each May, 1992, 1993, 1994.  In each of those years, a week after school ended in May, a workshop was conducted for about a dozen-or-so faculty who received a stipend for participation.  The stipend was an enticement had been wisely written into the grant. The outside expert hired to conduct May workshops for these years was none other than the outstanding Anne Loux from St. Mary’s.  Sometimes Professor Loux brought along members of her faculty who had already been through similar training.