Publisher's Synopsis
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 44.2 (Spring 2021): From the Editors: Taking Action by Jacob Babb, Lori Ostergaard, and Jim Nugent ESSAYS A Heuristic to Promote Inclusive and Equitable Teaching in Writing Programs by Julia Voss, Meghan A. Sweeney, and Tricia Serviss Writing Program Administration and the Title IX Controversy: Disability Theory, Agency, and Mandatory Reporting by Tara Wood Programmatic Mapping as a Problem-Solving Tool for WPAs by Laurie A. Pinkert and Kristen R. Moore Arriving with Credit: A Study of 200-Level Writers and the Question of Equivalency by Debbie Minter and Shari J. Stenberg REVIEW ESSAYS Does the Universe Tilt to the Side of Linguistic Justice? When, Where, and How? by Staci M. Perryman-Clark Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Cultivating a Writing Classroom Ecology of Equity, Inclusion, and Compassion by Norma Palomino (Re)Considering the Past, Present, and Future of Threshold Concepts by Emily Jo Schwaller
