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 48.2 (Spring 2025):
FROM THE EDITORS: Manifesting Our Value in This Moment by Tracy Ann Morse, Patti Poblete, Wendy Sharer, and Kelly Moreland
EVERYTHING IS PRAXIS: Addressing Equity Gaps in an HSI First-Year Writing Program: Institutional Initiatives and Faculty Collaborations by Md Mijanur Rahman, Danelle Dyckhoff Stelzriede, and Linda Margarita Greenberg For TAs, By TAs: Building Community Through a Teacher's Guide by Emma Boddy, Destiny Brugman, Rena Perez, and Sara Webb-Sunderhaus
ESSAYS: WPA Protocols for Increased Retention: Writing Program Administrators and Health of the University by Kay Siebler Navigating Competing Values at Public Liberal Arts Colleges: WPA Work and Mission Alignment by N. Claire Jackson Reframing Composition Discourse in the Age of Completion-Based Policy Reform by Halle M. Neiderman Toward an Intellectually Honest Evaluation of Writing Administration's Quotidian Labor by Daniel Libertz and Joshua Barsczewski
BOOK REVIEWS: Review: Desegregation State: College Writing Programs after the Civil Rights Movement by Nicole O'Connell Review: Systems Shift: Creating and Navigating Change in Rhetoric and Composition Administration by Anjelica Rechsteiner
