Positions Open for Instructors in Composition and Rhetoric

 Assistant Professor in History of Rhetoric The Department of English at Arizona State University (ASU) (http://www.asu.edu/clas/english) seeks an assistant professor and scholar-teacher in rhetoric and composition who has compiled a compelling record of scholarship appropriate to rank in any area of the history of rhetoric.

The Council of Writing Program Administrators is pleased to announce the appointment of Alice Horning (Oakland University, Michigan), Debra Dew (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), and Glenn Blaylock (Our Lady of the Lake College, Louisiana) as the next Editorial Team for our official journal, WPA: Writing Program Administration. The co-editors will be supported by Assistant Editors Greg Giberson, Lori Ostergaard, and Jim Nugent (all of Oakland University); Edward M White (Professor Emeritus, California State University-San Bernardino) will serve as Book Review Editor.

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,