He has worked in WAC at UW-LaCrosse since 1980 and was a member of a team that created both the Writing Emphasis program (begun as a General Education requirement in 1991 ) and the Writing-in-the-Major program, which became available as an alternative General Education requirement in 1998 . He has chaired the English Department Writing Committee for the last 10 years, a committee that develop a Writing Minor in the mid 1980's and has recently developed a Rhetoric and Writing tract for the English major.