Council of Writing Program Administrators

WPA Social at the 2007 MLA Conference, December 28

WPA-Sponsored Panels at the 2007 Modern Language Association ConventionChicago, Illinois, December 2007

The WPA Executive Board, and the committee on WPA at MLA (Dominic Delli Carpini, Chair, Joe Jananagelo, and Rita Malenczyk) are pleased to announce the following exciting and timely panels to be held at the 2007 MLA Conference in Chicago , Illinois . The panels address issues of concern for WPAs that have been raised at the 2006 and 2007 WPA Summer conferences.

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition   

The English Department at Purdue University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Rhetoric and Composition.

WPA Social at the 2007 MLA Conference, December 28

WPA and Purdue University, the institutional home of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, will be hosting a WPA Social at the 2007 MLA Conference in Chicago, to which all WPA members are invited. Join us for great Cajun food and a cash bar on Friday evening, December 28 at Heaven on Seven ( 111 North Wabash Avenue, 7 th floor) from 5:30-7:30 . Details and a more formal invitation will be forthcoming.

For participants in the Development of Writing Items on the NSSE:

I'm transferring some notes we've exchanged via email to this blog so everything will be in one place.

Shirley Rose

(from Chuck:)

Dear contributors:   

Going Public: The WPA as Advocate for Engagement 

In the last decade or so, as the discussion of community engagement and public scholarship in higher education has expanded its reach and deepened the articulation of its philosophical foundations, conceptions of college and university faculty work have begun to change. Though the traditional divisions of faculty work into research, teaching, and service constitute a still familiar triad, many universities and colleges are strategically revising the rhetoric that sharply distinguished among the three elements and contributed to a division of labor among faculty.  In addition to that familiar rhetoric, higher education faculty and administrators are developing descriptions of their work that emphasize integration of these elements and articulating rationales that argue for the contributions their work makes to the public good.   

I'm pleased to pass along this message from the Asessment Institute leaders.--Shirley

Dear WPA Assessment Institute Participants, 

Dear Fellow CWPA Members:

Yesterday, July1, was an important day for the organization as we made a transition in leadership. Joe Janangelo (Loyola University Chicago) moved into the position of WPA President and Linda Adler-Kassner (Eastern Michigan University) began her term as WPA Vice-President. Three new Executive Board members began their three-year terms: Jeff Andelora (Mesa Community college), Eli Goldblatt (Temple University), and Barbara L’Eplattenier (University of Arkansas-Little Rock).

I'm pasting in a note from the 2007 WPA Summer Workshop leaders.--Shirley

All,

There are still a few seats left for the WPA Summer Workshop (held the Sunday-Wednesday, July 8-11) before next month's conference (July 12-15). For full details please see http://www.wpacouncil.org/conference2007

Susan Miller Cochran and I have been working hard to construct a thoughtful and useful agenda -- see below.

WPA Assessment Insititute leaders Margaret Price, Darren Cambridge, and Michael Neal will be communicating via blog with registered participants prior to the institute, which will be held July 12. 

For more information about the 2007 WPA Assessment Institute, go to this node on the WPA website: http://wpacouncil.org/assessment2007

 As of June 8, there were still a few spaces remaining in the institute.

Shirley Rose

WPA President