Council of Writing Program Administrators

Mid-America Writing Program Administrators Biennial Fall Conference and Conversations on 21st Century Literacies Think Regionally - Act Locally: Shared Challenges – Divergent Settings October 24, 2008 - University of Missouri-St. Louis

Keynote Speaker: David A. Jolliffe Brown Chair in English Literacy and Professor of English, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Arkansas: “Local Literacy Outreach Blossoms in Arkansas”

Conference Announcement: Regional Networking Opportunity

Tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor with a joint appointment in English and Education; beginning date is August, 2008. Completed Ph.D./Ed.D. in English Education, Literature, or Composition and Rhetoric (strongly preferred) or ABD. Successful candidates must have a strong research agenda in English Education and exemplary experience in secondary school settings.

The Mid-America Writing Program Administrators organization is now inviting proposals for its fall conference:

MULTIPLE LITERACIES AND FUTURE WRITING PROGRAMS

September 28–29, 2007 • St. Louis, Missouri

Keynote Address:

DR. DAVID JOLLIFFE, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND BROWN CHAIR

IN ENGLISH LITERACY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT FAYETTEVILLE

While the MAWPA fall conference and its Colloquium on Writing Assessment provide opportunities to

Vacancy Announcements English Department/Arts & Sciences Lecturers

Composition Specialists, Department of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis

The University of Missouri-St. Louis seeks three Composition Specialists to join an established writing program as it moves into an exciting and well-supported new phase. Candidates interested in discipline-based communications, curriculum development, and teaching online and in technology-rich environments will find these opportunities particularly attractive. Successful candidates will demonstrate excellence in teaching college writing and expertise appropriate to developing and teaching upper division WAC/WID courses.

Are FYC courses your school taught primarily by faculty (“regular” and/or temporary)? If so, I ask you to consider participating in a roundtable discussion I’m proposing for WPA 2006.

WPA scholarship tends to ignore, I believe, those of us in institutions where FYC courses are staffed primarily, if not exclusively, by faculty. I’m interested in widening our profession’s conception of WPA work and identity by looking at the locations in which we work and the roles place, location, and culture play in our work. If your FYC courses are staffed primarily by a relatively stable cadre of faculty on some kind of continuing appointment and would like to participate in this roundtable discussion, please email me at sduffey@georgiasouthern.edu. Include a brief description of your staff, the kind of institution you work at, and perhaps a question or two you think your position raises about WPA theory, practice, or scholarship. I’ll put together a group whose “locations” might be expected to bring up a diversity of issues.