11/26/2025

December 2025 Update for CWPA Members

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:

• Results of CWPA Special Elections
• Save the Date and CFP: CWPA Summer Workshop and Conference 2026
• WPA Journal Update
• Upcoming Virtual Sessions

Results of CWPA Special Elections

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:

• Steven Accardi, College of DuPage
• Dev Bose, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Lydia Wilkes, Auburn University

Please join me in congratulating these new CWPA Executive Board members! Their term officially begins in January 2026.

Save the Date and CFP: CWPA Summer Workshop and Conference 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:

• CWPA Summer Workshop: July 20-22, 2026
• CWPA National Conference, July 23-25, 2026

We are ready to announce our two facilitators for the CWPA Summer Workshop:

• Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Spelman College
• Darci Thoune, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse

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

WPA Journal Update

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.

Upcoming Virtual Sessions

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.

• Facilitators: Jacob Babb and Darci Thoune
• Date and time: 2/13, 90 minutes, 2:00-3:30pm ET
• Meeting platform: Zoom
• Cost to members: Free for members

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