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WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include writing faculty education, training, and professional development; writing program creation and design the development of rhetoric and writing curricula; writing assessment within programmatic contexts advocacy and institutional critique and change; writing programs and their extra-institutional relationships with writing’s publics; technology and the delivery of writing instruction within programmatic contexts; wpa and writing program histories and contexts; WAC / ECAC / WID and their intersections with writing programs; the theory and philosophy of writing program administration issues of professional advancement and wpa work; and projects that enhance wpa work with diverse stakeholders.
CONTENTS OF WPA 41.2 (Spring 2018): Dancing the Same Dances: WPA, 1979-1981 by Lori Ostergaard, Jim Nugent, and Jacob Babb ESSAYS: Inez in Transition: Using Case Study to Explore the Experiences of Underrepresented Students in First-Year Composition by Christina Saidy Making (Collective) Memory Public: WPA Histories in Dialogue by Kelly Ritter Adapting Writing about Writing: Curricular Implications of Cross-Institutional Data from the Writing Transfer Project by Carol Hayes, Ed Jones, Gwen Gorzelsky, and Dana L. Driscoll Preparing Graduate Students for the Field: A Graduate Student Praxis Heuristic for WPA Professionalization and Institutional Politics by Ashton Foley-Schramm, Bridget Fullerton, Eileen M. James, and Jenna Morton-Aiken PLENARY ADDRESSES: Everyone Should Have a Plan A Neoliberal Primer for Writing Program Directors by Nancy Welch Austerity and the Scales of Writing Program Administration: Some Reflections on the 2017 CWPA Conference by Tony Scott REVIEW ESSAY: Beyond Satisfaction: Assessing the Goals and Impacts of Faculty Development by E. Shelley Reid BOOK REVIEWS: Learning on the Job and Learning from the Job: A Review of The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors by Brandy Lyn G. Brown Collaborating to Support Graduate Student Writers: Working beyond Disciplinary and Institutional Silos by Daveena Tauber Announcements
