Wpa

WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include the education and support of writing teachers; the intellectual and administrative work of WPAs; the situation of writing programs, within both academic institutions and broader contexts; the programmatic implications of current theories, technologies, and research; relationships between WPAs and other administrators, between writing and other academic programs, and among high school, two-year, and four-year college writing programs; placement; assessment; and the professional status of WPAs. The journal is published twice per year: fall/winter and spring.
CONTENTS OF WPA 33.1-2 (Fall/Winter 2009): From the Editors | "Exploring Options for Students at the Boundaries of the "At-Risk" Designation" by Stuart Blythe, Rachelle Darabi, Barbara Simon Kirkwood, and William Baden | "What Do WPAs Need to Know about Writing Assessment? An Immodest Proposal" by Chris W. Gallagher | "Pedagogical Memory: Writing, Mapping, Translating" by Susan C. Jarratt, Katherine Mack, Alexandra Sartor, and Shevaun E. Watson | "Reformist Possibilities? Exploring Writing Program Cross-Campus Partnerships " by Marie Paretti, Lisa McNair, Kelly Belanger, and Diana George | "Twenty More Years in the WPA's Progress" by Jonikka Charlton and Shirley K Rose | Review of Kelly Ritter's Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960 by Gregory R. Glau | "Power, Fear, and the Life of the Junior WPA: Directions for New Conversations," a Review by Susan Meyers of Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics edited by Debra Frank Dew and Alice Horning and The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration edited by Theresa Enos and Shane Borrowman | "A Symposium on Diversity and the Intellectual Work of WPAs"-" Literacy and Diversity: A Provocation" by Jonathan Alexander and "Embracing Linguistic Diversity in the Intellectual Work of WPAs" by Paul Kei Matsuda | Contributors