Faculty Spotlight: Wendy Boswell
Wendy Boswell, associate professor of management in the Mays Business School and a Mays Research Fellow, had good reason for wanting to a teach a W course. When her department first began considering how to implement W courses, Boswell quickly agreed to transform her Managing Human Resources course into a writing-intensive one. At the time, Boswell was directing the master’s program in human resource management, a position that gave her many contacts in the business world.
“I know firsthand how poor our students’ writing has been, and I heard a lot from recruiters about that being a huge issue. I saw it myself and knew it was affecting student job placement and long-term careers,” Boswell says.
Wendy Boswell, associate professor of management in the Mays Business School and a Mays Research Fellow.
She adds that deficient writing skills were not unique to Texas
A&M or the Mays Business School, but while many universities were
struggling to contend with the problem, Boswell knew it wasn’t an area
she and her faculty colleagues could afford to ignore.
Boswell’s
course already had several writing requirements, so, she acknowledges,
“I foolishly thought ‘Oh, it won’t really have to change.’”
That
assumption proved a bit na
