Council of Writing Program Administrators

Stony Brook University’s Women’s Studies Program invites applications for the appointment of Associate or Full Professor (Chair), effective September 1, 2009. The Women’s Studies Program at Stony Brook is an interdisciplinary academic program that offers a major, minor, and graduate certificate.

The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for the position of director. This is a full-time, non-tenure track position in an innovative, busy center that offers both onsite and online service (www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/).

The Institute for Children and Poverty (ICP) is an independent nonprofit research organization based in New York City. ICP works to provide timely analysis and recommendations that will enhance public policies and programs affecting poor or homeless children and their families. Specifically, ICP examines the condition of extreme poverty in the U.S., and its effect on educational attainment, employment and income, domestic and family violence, child welfare and foster care, and family homelessness and low-income housing. For more information visit our Web site at http://www.icpny.org

Samford University is renewing its search for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor to direct its Communication Arts program starting August 17, 2009.

Position Announcement Position Vacancy Number: 06-41-0807

A full-time (1.0 FTE), nine-month, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor (depending on qualifications), beginning Fall 2009, for a Director of Writing, with desirable areas of focus or secondary specialties to include professional and technical writing, digital rhetoric, visual literacy, and/or new media. Ph.D. required at time of appointment. Significant teaching experience, publication record, and demonstrated scholarly innovation and commitment preferred. Preferred qualifications include a demonstrable commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity.

This assessment model is part of the WPA Assessment Gallery and Resources and is intended to demonstrate how the principles articulated in the NCTE-WPA White Paper on Writing Assessment in Colleges and Universities are reflected in different assessments. Together, the White Paper and assessment models illustrate that good assessment reflect research-based principles rooted in the discipline, is locally determined, and is used to improve teaching and learning.