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 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 39.2 (Spring 2016): Letter from the Editors - SYMPOSIUM: CHALLENGING WHITENESS AND/IN WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND WRITING PROGRAMS: "Rhonda Left Early to Go to Black Lives Matter": Programmatic Support for Graduate Writers of Color by Jasmine Kar Tang and Noro Andriamanalina - A Story-less Generation: Emergent WPAs of Color and the Loss of Identity through Absent Narratives by Sherri Craig - Troubling the Boundaries Revisited: Moving Towards Change as Things Stay the Same by Collin Lamont Craig and Staci M. Perryman-Clark - Notes on Race in Transnational Writing Program Administration by Amy A. Zenger - Sustaining Balance: Writing Program Administration and the Mentorship of Minority College Students by Regina McManigell Grijalva - WPA and the New Civil Rights Movement by Genevieve Garcia de Mueller - The Yardstick of Whiteness in Composition Textbooks by Cedric D. Burrows - The Role of Composition Programs in De-Normalizing Whiteness in the University: Programmatic Approaches to Anti-Racist Pedagogies by James Chase Sanchez and Tyler S. Branson - On Keeping Score: Instructors' vs. Students' Rubric Ratings of 46,689 Essays by Joseph M. Moxley and David Eubanks - Taming Big Data through Agile Approaches to Instructor Training and Assessment: Managing Ongoing Professional Development in Large First-Year Writing Programs by Susan M. Lang - An Institutional Ethnography of Information Literacy Instruction: Key Terms, Local/Material Contexts, and Instructional Practice by Michelle LaFrance - TRAVELOGUE: Aspen and Honeysuckle: How Faculty Development for Teaching Writing Grows (Interview with Jessie Moore and Chris Anson) by Shirley K Rose REVIEWS: A New Perspective on Language-Level Writing Instruction by Anne Ruggles Gere - Writing Majors: Signs of Things to Come by T J Geiger II - Online Writing Instruction Principles and Practices: Now Is the Future by Elizabeth A. Monske - A Bird's Eye View of WAC in Practice: WAC Writing Assignments at 100 Colleges and Universities by Emily Isaacs"