CA/T
Who is CA/T?
Columbia Artist/Teachers (CA/T) are graduate students in the writing division of Columbia University's School of the Arts. CA/T has a dedicated community interest and works with several schools and organizations to build stronger communities through writing, teaching, tutoring, and volunteering. We train and place division students in teaching positions in the attempt to provide each CA/T member with teaching experience. We hope this experience will bolster participants' professional careers and make their MFA more marketable upon graduation.
Training
CA/T's are trained via the course The Writer as Teacher (taught by Writing Division chair Alan Ziegler, author of the two-volume Writing Workshop), by CA/T mentors (master teachers who have experience with such organizations as Teachers & Writers Collaborative), and by Columbia alums who have taught extensively. CA/T mentors include Dale Worsley (The Art of Science Writing and Teaching For Depth: Where Math Meets the Humanities), Matthew Sharpe (WriteNet Coordinator for Teachers & Writers), Bob Holman (proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club), and Leslie Woodard (director of undergraduate creative writing and the high school writing program at Columbia).
Mission Statement
Columbia Artist/Teachers (CA/T) is a faculty of graduate students in Columbia University's School of the Arts. CA/T works with schools and organizations to build stronger communities through the teaching of writing and other arts. We train and place MFA students in a variety of settings - on and off campus - with students at all levels.