Introduction

  • This election is for CAPC College of Arts and Humanities English Department Representative(s). The rules for this election are listed below.
  • The nominees for the CAPC College of Arts and Humanities English Department Representative(s) election are listed to the right. The list to the right is not a ballot.
  • This list in not official until nominations have been closed and the list of nominees has been reviewed and verified by the APSCUF Nominations and Elections Committee.
  • The statements the candidates submitted with their nominations are given below. By clicking on a name in the list of candidates, you will be taken to that candidate's statement.
  • Clicking on the words Return to Top will return you to this part of the page.
  • If you are a nominee and wish to modify your statement or withdraw your nomination, click on the "Modify" button. You will need your password to make any modifications.
  • When you are finished, you may choose to view nominees for other elections, nominate yourself, view the list of elections, return to the APSCUF Nominations and Elections homepage, visit the APSCUF homepage, or visit the WCU homepage.
The nominees for CAPC College of Arts and Humanities English Department Representative(s) are:

Joshua Raclaw
Andrew Sargent

Nominations close Mar 28, 2021.
Regular Faculty in the College of Arts and Humanities may be nominated.

Rules for the Election

    • Each department can have at most three representatives on CAPC.
    • The election is decided by a plurality of those casting votes unless such results violate the previous rule or the number of candidates does not exceed the number of positions to fill. In the later case, each candidate will be voted on by an approve/disapprove ballot.
    • Each ballot submitted counts as a cast vote.
    • Members elected to at-large seats cannot be nominated for department representative seats.

| Return to Top |

Joshua Raclaw


Department: English

Joshua Raclaw is in his fifth year at WCU and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Program in Linguistics. Since arriving at WCU, I have become deeply acquainted with the goals and work of CAPC while proposing and creating new courses, reviving sunset courses, and adding new Gen Ed designations to existing courses. Through my work as Linguistics Program Director and my three years of ongoing service to my department's BA curriclum committee, I have developed a deep interest in curricular policies, and I look forward to expanding that interest while serving the campus community as a member of CAPC. As an academic linguist, my research and teaching interests span multiple disciplines in both the humanities (English, communication and media, women's and gender studies) and the social sciences, and I hope to draw on that breadth of disciplinary knowledge to best serve the varied academic policy needs and concerns of all of our faculty.


| Return to Top |

Andrew Sargent


Department: English

I’ve felt very fortunate to serve on CAPC for the past three years and would welcome the opportunity to continue this work. As chair of CAPC’s Diverse Communities subcommittee and a member of the Gen Ed committee, I’ve collaborated with colleagues to evaluate proposals and provide feedback to preparers, modernize the J Handbook, update the course criteria checklist, and offer a how-to workshop to faculty proposing J courses. One of the key things I’d like to do if elected for another term would be to contribute to the campus-wide effort to revise and strengthen WCU’s Diverse Communities curriculum so that it responds even more urgently to the challenge of creating a racially just, equitable, and inclusive society. On a more general note, I continue to be sensitive to the experiences of faculty proposers in the CIM process and would contribute to the ongoing project of making this process as collaborative, constructive, and transparent as possible. Thanks for your consideration.


| Return to Top |

Return to the APSCUF Nominations and Elections home page

Created and copyrighted by Clifford Johnston, 2000-12