CWPA Committee Members
CWPA Committee and Task Force Members, 2019-2020
Committee memberships run from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020.
Affiliates Committee
The Affiliates Committee, which is composed of representatives of each of the Affiliates selected by those Affiliates, is charged with:
- Identifying and working on issues of concern to Affiliates
- Making recommendations to the Executive Board about issues of concern to Affiliates
- Reviewing applications for new Affiliates and making recommendations to the Executive Board in response to those applications
- Cathy Gabor, University of San Francisco (Chair), cgabor@usfca.edu
- Australia Affiliate - Susan Thomas susan.thomas@sydney.edu.au
- Carolinas WPA - Paula Patch ppatch@elon.edu
- Florida Consortium of University Writing Programs - Linda Howell lhowell@unf.edu
- High Mountain Affiliate - Kate Ryan Kathleen.ryan3@montana.edu
- Independent Writing Department and Programs Affiliate - Sue Pagnac pagnacs@central.edu
- Metropolitan WPA Affiliate - Tim McCormack tmccormack@jjay.cuny.edu and Annie Del Principe Ann.DelPrincipe@kbcc.cuny.edu
- Michigan WPA Affiliate - Amy Ferdinandt Stolley stolleam@gvsu.edu
- Midsouth WPA - Anna Knutson KNUTSON@mail.etsu.edu
- NorCal/Nev WPA Affiliate - Trish Serviss pcserviss@ucdavis.edu and Angela Clark-Oates clark-oates@csus.edu
- Ohio WPA - Kay Halasek halasek.1@osu.edu
- PWPA (Penn): o Liz Kimball ekimball99@gmail.com and Gabe Cutrufello gcutrufe@ycp.edu
- WPA West - Sarah Snyder Sarah.Snyder@azwestern.edu
Best Book Award Committee
The Best Book Award Committee is charged with:
- Soliciting nominees for the annual CWPA Best Book Award
- Selecting a recipient for the award from among the nominees
- Collecting models for the call for nominations, a list of criteria, and a description of the process of selection to place on the CWPA website for future committees
- J. Michael Rifenburg (Chair), University of North Georgia, michael.rifenburg@ung.edu
- Kristine Johnson, Calvin College, kjohns14@calvin.edu
- Vicki Davis, Indiana Tech, vjdavis@indianatech.edu
- Christina Saidy, Arizona State University, Christina.Saidy@asu.edu
- Amy Hodges, Texas A&M Qatar, amymhodges@gmail.com
- Tom Sura, West Virginia University, thomas.sura@mail.wvu.edu
- Staci Perryman-Clark (EB Member), Western Michigan University, staci.perryman-clark@wmich.edu
Breakfast Committee
The Breakfast Committee is charged with:
- Planning the annual CWPA Breakfast at CCCC.
- Collecting and reporting feedback from the membership of CWPA.
- Making recommendations to the CWPA Executive Board for any needed policies, changes, or procedures for future CCCC Breakfast Event.
- Lorie Jacobs (Co-Chair), University of Houston, jacobsl@uhcl.edu
- Kat O’Meara (Co-Chair), Emporia State University, komeara@emporia.edu
- Morgan Hanson, University of Southern Indiana, lmahanson@gmail.com
- Jake Castle, Middle Tennessee State University, jcc8t@mtmail.mtsu.edu
- Sherry Rankins-Robertson (EB Ex-Officio Member), University of Arkansas, sjrobertson@ualr.edu
Conference Siting Committee
The Conference Siting Committee is charged with:
- Soliciting proposals for siting the annual conference
- Reviewing proposals for siting the annual conference and making a recommendation to the Executive Board
- Collecting materials related to conference siting (CFP, criteria, description of the review process) to be posted on the CWPA website for future committees
- Sarah Snyder (Chair), Arizona Western College, sarah.snyder@azwestern.edu
- Amy Stolley, Grand Valley State University, stolleam@gvsu.edu
- Casie Fedukovich, North Carolina State University, cjfeduko@ncsu.edu
- Joanna Johnson, University of Miami, jsjohnson@miami.edu
- Greer Murphy, University of Rochester, greer.murphy@rochester.edu
- Tonya Eick, Arizona State University, teick@asu.edu
- Sheila Carter-Tod (EB Member), Virginia Tech, sct@vt.edu
Consultant-Evaluator Service Committee
The Consultant-Evaluator Service Committee is charged with advising the Director of the CWPA Consultant-Evaluator Service.
Shirley Rose, Arizona State University (chair) Director of the C-E Service
Michael Pemberton, Georgia Southern University, Associate Director of the C-E Service
Joe Janangelo, Loyola University Chicago (C-E Panel member)
Dominic DelliCarpini, York College of Pennsylvania (WPA President)
Crystyn Elder, University of New Mexico (EB Member)
Digital WPA Committee
The Digital WPA Committee is charged with:
- Advises the CWPA on organizational digital policies and practices
- Drafts language on WPA digital practices and trends for the Executive Board to consider
- Beth Brunk-Chavez (Chair, EB Member), University of Texas, blbrunk@utep.edu
- David Blakesley, Clemson University, david.blakesley@gmail.com
- Colin Charlton, University of Texas, colin.charlton@utrgv.edu
- Megan Crowley-Watson, Edward Waters College, m.crowleywatson@ewc.edu
- Lilian Mina (EB Member), Auburn University, lmina@aum.edu
- Jeanne Law Bohannon, Kennesaw State University, jbohan12@kennesaw.edu
- Derek Mueller (EB Member), Virginia Tech, dmueller@vt.edu
Disability and Accessibility Committee
The Disability and Accessibility Committee is charged with:
- Advising CWPA on making writing programs more accessible and inclusive
- Providing guidelines for making CWPA’s annual conference more accessible and inclusive
- Tracy Morse (Chair), East Carolina University, tracyannmorse@gmail.com
- Jessi Ulmer, South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, Julmer@scsdb.org
- Lydia Wilkes, Idaho State University, wilklyd2@isu.edu
- Mary De Nora, Texas Tech University, mary.denora@ttu.edu
- Allene Nichols, Richland College/University of Texas at Dallas, anichols@dcccd.edu
- Courtney Adams-Wooten (EB Member), George Mason University, cwooten3@gmu.edu
Diversity Committee
The Diversity Committee is charged with:
- Recommending language for the Conference Siting Committee to include in their call for proposals to host the conference
- Drafting a policy for the Executive Board to consider for how to respond when hostile legislation is passed in an already-selected conference location
- Working with the CWPA Officers to recommend specific ways that CWPA committees can consider issues of diversity in their work
- Identifying and working on other issues of diversity in CWPA and in writing programs
- Jason DePolo (Chair), North Carolina A&T State University, jdepolo@ncat.edu
- Maureen Johnson, Northeastern State University, johns344@nsuok.edu
- Regina McManigell Grijalva, Oklahoma City University, ramcmanigell@okcu.edu
- Inas Youssef Mahfouz, American University of Kuwait, imahfouz@auk.edu.kw
- Genevieve Garcia de Mueller (EB Member), Syracuse University, ggarciad@syr.edu
Graduate Committee
The Graduate Committee is elected by members of WPA-GO.
Graduate Research Awards Committee
The Graduate Research Awards Committee is charged with:
- Soliciting nominees for the annual CWPA Graduate Research Awards
- Selecting recipients for the awards from among the nominees
- Collecting models for the call for nominations, a list of criteria, and a description of the process of selection to place on the CWPA website for future committees
- Bud Weiser (Chair), Purdue University, iweiser@purdue.edu
- Cristyn Elder, University of New Mexico, celder@unm.edu
- Kat O’Meara, Emporia State University, komeara@emporia.edu
- Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Yndalecio.hinojosa@tamucc.edu
- Carolyn Wisnewski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, cwisnie@gmail.com
- Meaghan Brewer, Pace University, mbrewer2@pace.edu
- Morgan McDougall, Bowling Green State University, memcdou@bgsu.edu
- Erica Stone, Texas Tech University, erica.m.stone@gmail.com
- Dominic DelliCarpini (EB Member), York College of Pennsylvania, dcarpini@ycp.edu
Kenneth Bruffee Award Committee
The Kenneth Bruffee Award Committee is charged with:
- Soliciting nominees for the annual CWPA Kenneth Bruffee Award, the award for the best article published in WPA: Writing Program Administration
- Selecting a recipient for the award from among the nominees
- Collecting models for the call for nominations, a list of criteria, and a description of the process of selection to place on the CWPA website for future committees
- Megan Schoen (Chair), Oakland University, mschoen2342@gmail.com
- Meaghan Brewer, Pace University, mbrewer2@pace.edu
- Kristi McDuffie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, kmcduff@illinois.edu
- Annie Del Principe (EB Member), Kingsborough Community College, ann.delprincipe@kbcc.cuny.edu
Labor Committee
The Labor Committee is charged with:
- Compiling labor resources and making them available to members
- Making recommendations to the Executive Board about how CWPA should be working with other organizations on labor issues
- Making a recommendation to the Executive Board in response to the Indianapolis Resolution
- Darci Thoune (Co-chair), University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse, dthoune@uwlax.edu
- Seth Kahn (Co-chair), West Chester University, SKahn@wcupa.edu
- Andy Frazee, Georgia Tech, andy.frazee@lmc.gatech.edu
- Michelle LaFrance, George Mason University, mlafran2@gmu.edu
- Casie Fedukovich, North Carolina State University, cjfeduko@ncsu.edu
- Rich Miller, Suffolk University, rmiller@suffolk.edu
- Cheri Lemieux-Spiegel, Northern Virginia Community College, cheri.lemieux@gmail.com
- Patti Poblete (EB Member), Henderson State University, patti.poblete@gmail.com
Liaison Committee
The Liaison Committee is charged with:
- Soliciting paper and panel proposals for the annual CWPA session at MLA, CCCC, and GSOLE, reviewing and selecting the panels, and submitting the information to the respective organizations
- Acting as a liaison with other organizations as needed/required and making recommendations to the Executive Board about how CWPA should connect with other organizations
- Paula Patch (Chair, EB Member), Elon University, ppatch@elon.edu
- Bradley Smith, Governors State University, bsmith7@govst.edu
- Tom Sura, West Virginia University, thomas.sura@mail.wvu.edu
- Jake Castle, Jake Castle, Middle Tennessee State University, jcc8t@mtmail.mtsu.edu
Membership/Newcomers Committee
The Membership/Newcomers Committee is charged with:
- Capturing the history and stories of the membership
- Increasing membership in new and underserved populations within the organization
- Working in tandem with other committees to understand, anticipate, and meet the needs of newcomers to the organization as well as long-standing members
- Erin Workman (Chair), DePaul University, e.workman@depaul.edu
- Nicole Weaver, Le Moyne College, weaverna@lemoyne.edu
- Morgan Hanson, University of Southern Indiana, lmahanson@gmail.com
- Ryan Dippre, University of Maine, ryan.dippre@maine.edu
- Jen Clary-Lemon (EB Ex-Officio), University of Waterloo, jclarylemon@uwaterloo.ca
Mentoring Project Committee
The Mentoring Project Committee is charged with:
- Assigning mentors to new WPAs at their request
- Selecting and sponsoring Mentoring sessions at the annual CWPA conference
- Coordinating with WPA-GO as needed
Joe Janangelo (Chair), Loyola University Chicago, jjanang@luc.edu
Susan Miller-Cochran, University of Arizona (EB Liaison), millercochran@email.arizona.edu
Cindy Moore, Loyola University Maryland clmoore1@loyola.edu
Nominating Committee
The Nominating Committee is charged with:
- Soliciting nominees for vacant Executive Board and Vice President positions
- Determining a slate of candidates from the nominations for the CWPA election in the spring
- Writing a description of the process for soliciting and selecting candidates for the election to post on the website for future Nominating Committees
- Cheri Lemieux-Spiegel (Chair), Northern Virginia Community College, cheri.lemieux@gmail.com
- Paula Patch (EB Member), Elon University, ppatch@elon.edu
- Gin Schwarz, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Vschwarz@wisc.edu
- Meagan Newberry, College of Western Idaho, meagannewberry@cwidaho.cc
- Becky Caouette, Rhode Island College, bcaouette@ric.edu
- Derek Mueller (EB Member), Virginia Tech, dmueller@vt.edu
Outstanding Scholarship Award Committee
The Outstanding Scholarship Award Committee is charged with:
- Soliciting nominees for the annual CWPA Outstanding Scholarship Award, an award for outstanding article-length scholarship published outside of the WPA journal
- Selecting a recipient for the award from among the nominees
- Collecting models for the call for nominations, a list of criteria, and a description of the process of selection to place on the CWPA website for future committees
- Courtney Adams-Wooten (Chair, EB Member), George Mason University, cwooten3@gmu.edu
- Kaitlin Clinnin, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, kaitlin.clinnin@unlv.edu
- Debbie Minter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, dminter1@unl.edu
- Ryan Dippre, University of Maine, ryan.dippre@maine.edu
Publications Committee
The Publications Committee is charged with:
- Helping facilitate the transition to the new editorial team for WPA: Writing Program Administration
- Selecting a new co-editor for the WPA/CompPile Annotated Bibliographies
- Providing oversight for CWPA publications
- Jacob Babb (Chair), Indiana University Southeast, babbj@ius.edu
- Lilian Mina (EB Member), Auburn University at Montgomery, lilian.mina@gmail.com
- David Blakesley, Clemson University, david.blakesley@gmail.com
- Lori Ostergaard, Oakland University, ostergaa@oakland.edu
- Jim Nugent, Oakland University, nugent@oakland.edu
- Mark Blaauw-Hara (EB Member), North Central Michigan College, mhara@ncmich.edu
Research Grants Committee
The Research Grants Committee is charged with:
- Developing and issuing the annual call for WPA Research Grant proposals
- Reviewing and selecting recipients of WPA Research Grants
- Joanne Giordano (Co-chair), Salt Lake Community College, joanne.giordano@slcc.edu
- Chuck Paine (Co-chair), University of New Mexico, cpaine@unm.edu
- Collie Fulford, North Carolina Central University, cfulfor1@nccu.edu
- Jane Nazzal, University of California Irvine, Jsnazzal@uci.edu
- Megan Schoen, Oakland University, mschoen2342@gmail.com
- Annie Del Principe (EB Member), Kingsborough Community College, ann.delprincipe@kbcc.cuny.edu
Task Force on Revisiting/Revising the Statement on the Intellectual Work of Writing Administration
This Task Force is charged with:
- Reviewing the existing statement to determine what needs to be revised, based on current research in writing program administration.
- Submitting a draft to the CWPA Executive Board for its March 2017 meeting in Portland.
Jill Gladstein, Swarthmore College (chair)
Dominic DelliCarpini, York College of Pennsylvania (CWPA President, EB Member)
Clint Gardner, Salt Lake Community College
Laurie A. Pinkert, University of Central Florida
Shirley K Rose, Arizona State University
Kathleen Ryan, Montana State University
Mark Blaauw-Hara, North Central Michigan College (CWPA VP, EB Member)
Sherry Rankins-Robertson, University of Arkansas
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