The TRAC Fellows Program was launched in Fall 2008 as an initiative of Library & Technology Services to advance writing and communication instruction in courses across the curriculum at Lehigh. In the first semester of the 2008–9 pilot year, 15 TRAC Writing Fellows worked with 10 members of the faculty. The pilot program paved the way for substantial growth in just a few years. As of the Spring 2025 semester, the program boasts a roster of 82 TRAC Fellows who serve about 1,000 students, 25 classes, and 20 faculty. In sixteen years, the program has trained approximately 785 TRAC Fellows, assisted 168 faculty and instructors, TRACed 569 classes, and interacted with 22,106 students.

The TRAC Writing Fellows Program at Lehigh University is committed to promoting a campus-wide culture in which writing and communication in its many forms are central to learning. In this culture, communication and inquiry are vitally linked, restraints on learning imposed by traditional disciplinary boundaries are eased, and students and faculty are all part of one vibrant intellectual community.

The TRAC acronym stands for technology, research, and communication. TRAC Fellows are talented writers from all undergraduate colleges who work as peer writing coaches in courses at Lehigh University.

In the fall and spring, faculty at Lehigh agree to have their course TRACed. Students meet with a TRAC Fellow two or three times in a semester. Each fellow works with no more than 12–15 students. Large classes require more than one fellow. A TRAC conference is a conversation between peers about a piece of writing that is central to the course. A student passes a draft to their fellow; the fellow annotates what’s been written; and a week or two later they meet in person to talk about their markup and more. Fellows also consult with faculty on assignment design, the creation of writing prompts, and effective uses of educational technologies. Fellows do not grade student papers, nor do they play any other role in determining grades.