The WPA consultant-evaluator service offers colleges and universities the opportunity to improve and assess their writing programs. Employing a method similar to regional accreditation agencies, WPA evaluations occur over several stages. Once a date is confirmed, the WPA C-E director requests a campus to prepare a written self-study and arranges for a team of two trained consultant-evaluators to participate in a two-day campus visit that eventuates in a co-authored written report. A six-month follow-up report from the campus completes the process.

WPA consultant-evaluators are leaders in the field of composition studies and hold positions at a wide range of two- and four-year colleges and universities. All are experienced administrators with a national perspective on composition teaching and writing program administration. Their mission is to determine a program's unique strengths and weaknesses, help resolve local and individual problems, and improve programmatic effectiveness.

To make use of the service, institutions pay $3000 to cover honoraria for the two consultant-evaluators, a $250 administrative fee, plus travel and lodging for the two consultants.

Applications for the C-E service should be initiated three months prior to a planned visit. For more information, WPAs, department chairs, or college administrators should contact:

Professor Charles Schuster, Director of the Honors College
Garland Hall 302
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Phone: 414-229-4658
Email: cis@uwm.edu (Please put “C-E Visit” in the subject line.)

 

To download a copy of Laura Brady's essay "A Case for Writing Program Evaluation" (WPA 28.1-2 [Fall 2004]), see attachment below.

To download a one-page flyer describing the C-E Service, see attachment below.

To download a copy of the "Guidelines for Self-Study to Precede WPA Visit" see attachment below.

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