WPA 2009 Conference Sessions

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Title
Sustainable Assessment Processes: Cultivating a Culture and Scholarship of Program Evaluation
Building Faculty Morale in “Hard Times”
Responding to Standardized Testing on Campus
Discerning the Best Assessment Course When There’s Already a Pig in the Poke
Mis/Understanding Information Literacy: WPAs, Librarians, and the General Education Curriculum
When Anxiety Disorders Come to Class: Suggestions for Dealing with this Dilemma
An alternative to the “pound of flesh” FYW staffing metric
When Instructors Go Bad, Who Is Accountable for What, and What Are the Costs?
WAC in One Afternoon: Rethinking Writing at a Small College in Transition
Making the Most of the WPA Website
Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been? Writing Centers as Ideal Training Grounds for Future WPAs
Close Focus on Assessment Process: A Roundtable on Rubric Development and Reader Training
Using WPA Documents to Guide Institutional Policy Statements
“The Art of Discernment: Confessions of a Junior WPA”
A WPA’s Charge: Faculty Development by Design and by Stealth
Scholarly Publishing in Challenging Times: Advice from Editors
Writing-About-Writing FYC Courses From Three Perspectives: Director, Instructor/Coordinator, and Adjunct
Moving Forward: Foregrounding “Writing”
Mapping Program Genre-Systems for Institutional Change
Assistant Director Positions: Potentials and Pitfalls
WPA Perspectives on Instructor Comments: A Roundtable on Response
Discerning Roles and Responsibilities: Graduate WPAs and a Showcase of Student Writing
Second Generation Mainstreaming for Basic Writers: The Accelerated Learning Project (ALP)
A National Study of Writing’s Contributions to Learning in College: Major Findings and Practical Implications for All Writing Pr
Washington State University Writing Program’s evolutionary step: The move from homegrown OWL to the NW eTutoring.org consortium