Revealing student voices by RE-envisioning first year writing [linfield is an emerging hispanic-serving, comprehensive university that serves over 1700 students. 64% are new majority students (1ST…

Revealing student voices by RE-envisioning first year writing [linfield is an emerging hispanic-serving, comprehensive university that serves over 1700 students. 64% are new majority students (1ST GEN, pell, bipoc, or transfer). As linfield?s demographics shift, its faculty are revising the general education (GE) first-year requirements to focus on the key humanistic questions of "who am i" and "who are we?" that allows each student to reveal their unique voice through inquiry-based writing/rhetoric. This GE revision will give first-year students a robust introduction to writing and inquiry within a framework of belonging that uses justice-based pedagogies, so that all students can explore the humanities as a platform for making their diverse voices heard. The NEH spotlight grant will fund the creation and pilot of inquiry seminar (inqs) 101 as a newly required humanities course at the heart of the GE core. The new course embraces linguistic diversity by centering student voices in a profound way that will ground and inform all other coursework.]