As an open-access publishing collaborative, the WAC Clearinghouse is dedicated to providing barrier- and cost-free access to scholarly work, including journals and journal articles, monographs, edited collections, conference proceedings, and professional and pedagogical resources.
The WAC Clearinghouse is committed to promoting a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. We pursue the goals of providing peer-reviewed publications and curated instructional and professional resources without cost to all who visit our website. As a project emerging from the field of rhetoric, composition, and writing studies (RCWS), we are committed to reflecting the diversity of our academic discipline. And as a collection of scholars with diverse backgrounds and interests, we are committed to cultivating an academic community that is not limited by race, ethnicity, veteran status, marital status, socioeconomic level, national origin, religious belief, physical ability, sexual orientation, age, class, political ideology, or gender identity and expression.
As a publishing collaborative, we recognize and celebrate the benefits of uniqueness, similarities, and differences. We seek to:
In keeping with these goals, the Clearinghouse invites contributions that support our mission from all people, regardless of institutional affiliation or disciplinary background.
Similarly, in keeping with our values and in response to the Black Lives Matter movement in particular and to systemic racism, oppression, and bias more generally, we are committed to publishing work by scholars from communities that have historically been underrepresented in WAC and writing studies scholarship. This aligns with our goal of making scholarly work in WAC and writing studies available to all scholars and the larger public through open-access, barrier-free publishing. In pursuing this goal, we subscribe to and endorse the statement and guidelines on Anti-Racist Scholarly Reviewing Practices that can be found at https://tinyurl.com/reviewheuristic.