Dear CWPA Members:
As we wrap-up this year, we are reflecting on where we’ve been and also looking ahead to 2026. We have several upcoming events and opportunities to connect next year.
Here are the updates we’ll be covering in this monthly message:
Thank you for voting in our Special Fall Elections! We were thrilled to see so many wonderful candidates expressing interest in guiding the future of CWPA. We are pleased to welcome three new members to CWPA’s Executive Board:
Please join me in congratulating these new CWPA Executive Board members! Their term officially begins in January 2026.
Please save the date for our on-site national conference: July 20-25, 2026. We hope you will join us in beautiful Laramie, Wyoming, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the historic 1986 Wyoming Conference Resolution next year! The in-person event will be happen on these dates:
We are ready to announce our two facilitators for the CWPA Summer Workshop:
Additionally, our CFP for the CWPA Conference 2026 is now posted, and we are accepting proposals. Read more here: https://www.wpacouncil.org/aws/CWPA/pt/sp/conference_home_page
The Fall 2025 issue of WPA: Writing Program Administration will be out shortly. This issue includes Symposium pieces on “WPAing in a Time of Backlash.”
Make sure your CWPA membership or journal subscription is renewed in order to receive your copy as soon as it’s published. Remember that all CWPA members receive full access to the journal’s archives.
We are in the process of adding CWPA virtual events spring. View upcoming events and register here: https://www.wpacouncil.org/aws/CWPA/pt/sp/events
February 13: Crafting Your WPA Identity in Tenure and Promotion Documents
How would you describe a platypus? In some ways, that’s what WPAs are in our institutions. We are administrators–sort of, and we are regular faculty–sort of. This workshop focuses on helping you to think about how you account for your work as a WPA within the context of your institution’s tenure and promotion guidelines. While we think this workshop will be immediately helpful for folks going up for tenure and promotion in the near future, we want folks at any stage of their career (from early tenure-track to grad students) to feel welcome. It’s never too early to start thinking about how we present our work to others in our institutions.
Thank you for being a part of CWPA this year!
Cheers and happy holidays,
Erin Lehman, CWPA President
David Green, CWPA Vice President
Kelly Blewett, Immediate Past President of CWPA
Amanda Presswood, CWPA Secretary
Christal Seahorn, CWPA Treasurer