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 47.1 (Fall 2023) Special Issue: Writing Program Administration in the Time of COVID-19 REFLECTIONS: As My Dad Lay Dying by Courtney Adams Wooten We Can't Be All the Things: Protecting WPA Labor from Mission Creep in Times of Crisis by Scot Barnett and Miranda Yaggi Rodak The Writing Program Has COVID: Community Pacing as Praxis by Sarah N. Beam and Mark S. Rideout Pandemic Administration, Neurodiversity, and Interrogating Writing Center Accessibility by Elisabeth H. Buck Lessons From Caregivers by Paige Ellisor-Catoe Communities of Practice, Communities of Care: Building a Writing Program Community at the Height of COVID by Andy Frazee Advocating for Adjuncts During COVID-19 by Teresa Grettano The "Always On" Demands of Digital Technologies: Finding Space to Turn Off by Stephanie Hedge When Too Much Really Is Too Much: On WPAing Through the COVID Years by Kim Hensley Owens "But This Is Bullshit" Enforcing Boundaries as a Pregnant WPA by Christina M. LaVecchia Achieving Community Amid COVID-19 by Mary Lutze A Eulogy for an Awful Time That Just Won't Die by Bradley Smith Building Accessibility, Disabling Labor: Sustainable Models of WPA Work During a Pandemic by Sara Webb-Sunderhaus RESEARCH ARTICLES: We've Been Burned Out and Exhausted: GenAdmin WPA Labor Issues Exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic by Amy Cicchino, Sarah Snyder, and Natalie Szymanski Practicing Equitable and Sustainable Trauma-Informed Writing Program Administration through Disability Justice by Kaitlin M. Clinnin The Quiet Revolution: How New WPAs are Shifting the Profession by Kristi Murray Costello Fugitive Administrative Rhetorics by Denae Dibrell, Andrew Hollinger, and Maggie Shelledy Snapping from the Center: Institutional Absurdity and Equitable Writing Center Administration by Amanda Fields, Elizabeth Leahy, Celeste Del Russo, and Erica Cirillo-McCarthy BOOK REVIEW: Metaphors That Move Us in the Right Direction by Megan Boeshart Burelle and Kristi Murray Costello Ads
