11/15/2024

CWPA 2025 conference proposal portal is open!

Dear members,

The CWPA Conference Planning Committee is very happy to share that the conference portal for CWPA’s Summer 2025 conference is open!

The purpose of our conference theme, “Chairs, Coordinators, Directors, Leads, WPAs: The Shifting Nature of WPA Work,” is to highlight the varied voices that are doing WPA work and have important insights to share.

The variety of titles and responsibilities in our field mirrors the complex and shifting nature of WPA work today. These changes include the widespread availability and uptake of machine-writing tools by students and faculty; the increasingly politicized teaching environment fueled by anti-DEI legislation; and concomitantly, the ongoing necessity of supporting student writers through culturally-affirming and sustaining policies, pedagogies, and practices–including real conversations about linguistic prejudice and discrimination. We wonder whether to describe these shifts as rich and varied or splintering and fractured.

You are invited to join our 2025 conference, which will be offered virtually as synchronous sessions, and share the ways your leadership and administrative work around the teaching of writing is stretching and changing.  Your experiences and expertise are valuable! We hope you will submit a proposal and share your programmatic expertise at our virtual conference this July 10-11, 2025--and please share this call widely with your colleagues and networks!

Sincerely,

The Conference Planning Committee

Erin Lehman, Kelly Blewett, Daryl Lynn Dance, Callie Kostelich, Amanda Presswood, Christal Seahorn, and Mary Lourdes Silva