Council Writing Program Administrators
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 39.1 (Fall 2015): Letter from the Editors | In Memoriam: Linda H. Peterson (1948-2015) | In Memoriam: Charlie Moran (1936-2015) | ARTICLES: Narratives, Administrative Identity, and the Early Career WPA by Amy Ferdinandt Stolley | Moving from the One and Done to a Culture of Collaboration: Revising Professional Development for TAs by Lauren Obermark, Elizabeth Brewer, and Kay Halasek | Community Engagement in Writing Program Design and Administration by Veronica House | Defining and Developing Expertise in a Writing and Rhetoric Department by Elizabeth Wardle and J. Blake Scott | PLENARY ADDRESSES: What Remains and What Sustains: Companions in Mission, Colleagues in Action, WPAs for Life by Elizabeth Boquet | Towards an Ecology of Sustainable Labor in Writing Programs (and Other Places) by Seth Kahn | Sustainable Infrastructures and the Future of Writing Studies by Cheryl E. Ball | WPAS IN ACTION: Vignettes from the Field: Composition Condition by Nate Kreuter | REVIEWS: Theory Building for Writing Studies by Raúl Sánchez | Exploring the Intersection of Literacy and Migration: A Rich Ethnography by Todd Ruecker | Expanding Horizons: A Second Language Acquisition Approach to Writing Center Practice by Gita DasBender
