WPA: Writing Program Administration

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September 2025

  1. Sep 2025 web
    From the Editors: Something Different: Hope ↗
    Tracy Ann Morse; Patti Poblete; Wendy Sharer; Kelly Moreland
    editorial matter
  2. Sep 2025 web
    Introduction ↗
    Kelly Moreland; Tracy Ann Morse; Patti Poblete; Wendy Sharer
  3. Sep 2025 web
    Do Not Obey in Advance: Countering the Chilling Effects of Anti-DEI Legislation ↗
    Gavin P. Johnson
  4. Sep 2025 web
    Leading Through Legislative Overreach in Utah ↗
    Charles McMartin
  5. Sep 2025 web
    When DEI Isn’t Banned but Undone ↗
    Anonymous
  6. Sep 2025 web
    Finding Our People: Coalition, Collaboration, and Community as Persistence ↗
    Kat M. Gray; LewEllyn Hallett; Megan McIntyre; Maggie Fernandes
    collaborative writing
  7. Sep 2025 web
    Quiet Persistence: Writing Center Leadership Amid DEI Backlash ↗
    Carey Smitherman Clark
    writing centers
  8. Sep 2025 web
    Making Space for the “Fleshy Presence”: Institutional Embodiment and the Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Practicum ↗
    Callie F. Kostelich; Alison Wells
    graduate education body and rhetoric
  9. Sep 2025 web
    Speaking Truth in Hostile Times: Strategies for Writing Program Administration under Restrictive Legislation ↗
    Renae Frey
    writing program administration
  10. Sep 2025 web
    “Becoming Antiracist” in the Time of DEI Backlash: Redefining FYC at a Hispanic-Serving Institution ↗
    Scott Gage
    first-year composition race and writing
  11. Sep 2025 web
    Habits of Mind to Keep Us Going: Some Thoughts and Strategies from a BIPOC WPA ↗
    David T. Johnson
  12. Sep 2025 web
    Requiem for a Composition Program ↗
    Beth Buyserie
  13. Sep 2025 web
    I Dissent: Teaching in Interesting Times ↗
    Natalie M. Dorfeld
    teacher development
  14. Sep 2025 web
    Articulating Values Toward Action: Communicating Program Values in a Time of Backlash to Guide Teacher Support at the “Most Racially Diverse” University in Michigan ↗
    Adrienne Jankens; Nicole Guinot Varty
    teacher development
  15. Sep 2025 web
    Preparing for Backlash with a Crisis Communication Plan ↗
    Ashley Patriarca
  16. Sep 2025 web
    Working Toward Fairness in Program-Wide Tools: A Collaborative, Locally Grounded, Flexible, and Descriptive Assessment Heuristic for First-Year Writing ↗
    Mary K. Stewart
    first-year composition collaborative writing assessment
  17. Sep 2025 web
    From Gatekeeper to Informant: The Roles of Academic Advisors in Aligning Directed Self-Placement ↗
    Theresa Tinkle; Michelle Sprouse; Jason Godfrey; Andrew Moos; Laura Romaine
    assessment
  18. Sep 2025 web
    Beyond Appendices: Equity and Directed Self-Placement ↗
    Amy Vidali; Sarah Michals
    assessment race and writing
  19. Sep 2025 web
    A Pre-Pandemic Snapshot of a Culture of (in)Access: Accommodation Statements in the Document Ecology of the First-Year Writing Programs in Michigan ↗
    Vee Kennedy
    first-year composition disability studies
  20. Sep 2025 web
    Updated Culturally Conscious and Active Learning Professional Development Texts for Busy Faculty ↗
    Zoe McDonald
    professional writing
  21. Sep 2025 web
    Review of Reconstructing Response to Student Writing: A National Study from Across the Curriculum by Dan Melzer ↗
    Kelly Blewett
    book reviews editorial matter

April 2025

  1. Apr 2025 web
    From the Editors: Manifesting Our Value in This Moment ↗
    Tracy Ann Morse; Patti Poblete; Wendy Sharer; Kelly Moreland
    editorial matter
  2. Apr 2025 web
    Addressing Equity Gaps in an HSI First-Year Writing Program: Institutional Initiatives and Faculty Collaborations ↗
    Md Mijanur Rahman; Danelle Dyckhoff Stelzriede; Linda Margarita Greenberg
    first-year composition race and writing
  3. Apr 2025 web
    For TAs, By TAs: Building Community Through a Teacher’s Guide ↗
    Emma Boddy; Destiny Brugman; Rena Perez; Sara Webb-Sunderhaus
    teacher development
  4. Apr 2025 web
    WPA Protocols for Increased Retention: Writing Program Administrators and Health of the University ↗
    Kay Siebler
    writing program administration
  5. Apr 2025 web
    Navigating Competing Values at Public Liberal Arts Colleges: WPA Work and Mission Alignment ↗
    N. Claire Jackson
  6. Apr 2025 web
    Reframing Composition Discourse in the Age of Completion-Based Policy Reform ↗
    Halle M. Neiderman
    discourse analysis
  7. Apr 2025 web
    Toward an Intellectually Honest Evaluation of Writing Administration’s Quotidian Labor ↗
    Daniel Libertz; Joshua Barsczewski
    assessment
  8. Apr 2025 web
    Review of Desegregation State: College Writing Programs after the Civil Rights Movement ↗
    Nicole O’Connell
    first-year composition book reviews
  9. Apr 2025 web
    Review of Systems Shift: Creating and Navigating Change in Rhetoric and Composition Administration ↗
    Anjelica Rechsteiner
    rhetorical criticism book reviews

September 2024

  1. Sep 2024 web OA PDF
    Editor’s Introduction: Seeking the Next Editor(s) of WPA! ↗
    Tracy Ann Morse; Patti Poblete; Wendy Sharer; Kelly Moreland
  2. Sep 2024 web OA PDF
    Overenrolled for the Summer: Graduate Instructor Labor, Course Caps, and Other Compounding Impacts ↗
    Gavin P. Johnson; Yu Lei; Rachel McShane; Haomei Meng; Reza Panahi; Gouda Taha
  3. Sep 2024 web OA PDF
    FAQ: Developing & Maintaining Shared Curriculum ↗
    Mariya Tsepstura; Shelley Rodrigo
  4. Sep 2024 web OA PDF
    Using a Faculty Survey to Model Successful Instruction in First-Year Writing: Faculty Development Without Faculty Conflict ↗
    Liberty Kohn
    first-year composition
  5. Sep 2024 web OA PDF
    Designing DSP: UX and the Experience of Online Students ↗
    Kathleen Kryger; Catrina Mitchum
  6. Sep 2024 web OA PDF
    Building Effective Arguments about Writing Class Size and Workload ↗
    Todd Ruecker; Galen Gorlangton
    writing pedagogy
  7. Sep 2024 web OA PDF
    Are We Preparing Students to Write Across the Curriculum?: An Analysis of Learning Outcomes for First-Year Composition at Two-Year Colleges ↗
    Teresa Thonney
    first-year composition two-year college
  8. Sep 2024 web OA PDF
    A Transdisciplinary Approach to Writing Knowledge Transfer: Applications in Teaching and Research. Review of Writing Knowledge Transfer: Theory, Research, and Pedagogy ↗
    Hunter Little
    writing pedagogy teacher development transfer book reviews
  9. Sep 2024 web OA PDF
    Review of Two-Year College Writing Studies: Rationale and Praxis for Just Teaching ↗
    Donny Penner
    first-year composition two-year college teacher development book reviews

April 2024

  1. Apr 2024 web OA PDF
    From the Editors: Gratitude, Greetings, and Gatherings ↗
    Tracy Ann Morse; Patti Poblete; Wendy Sharer; Kelly Moreland
    editorial matter
  2. Apr 2024 web OA PDF
    Using Case Studies for Training WPAs in SLW Issues: A Dialogic Exploration ↗
    Anuj Gupta; Gail Shuck; Christine M. Tardy
  3. Apr 2024 web OA PDF
    Moving Away from ACT for Placement: A Three-Year Journey to Implementing Directed Self-Placement ↗
    Heather N. Hill
    assessment
  4. Apr 2024 web OA PDF
    Students’ Right to Their Own Language: The Gordian Knot of Social Justice for Writing Program Administrators ↗
    Dominic DelliCarpini
    writing program administration race and writing
  5. Apr 2024 web OA PDF
    Exclusive of Ourselves: Private Multilingualisms in the Writing Center ↗
    Lizzie Hutton
    writing centers
  6. Apr 2024 web OA PDF
    Where Have You Been? Where Are You Going? Reconsidering Literacy Narratives in the Context of Neuroscience Research ↗
    Irene Clark
    literacy studies
  7. Apr 2024 web OA PDF
    Scarier Than It Seems: Multimodal Composition in GTA Training ↗
    Ryan P. Shepherd; Rachael A. Ryerson; Courtney A. Mauck
    first-year composition graduate education teacher development multimodality
  8. Apr 2024 web OA PDF
    Practical Perspectives for The New Work of Writing Across the Curriculum: Diversity and Inclusion, Collaborative Partnerships, and Faculty Development : A Review ↗
    Lauren Fusilier
    writing across the curriculum collaborative writing race and writing book reviews
  9. Apr 2024 web OA PDF
    Review of Radiant Figures: Visual Rhetorics in Everyday Administrative Contexts ↗
    Skyler Meeks
    multimodality book reviews

September 2023

  1. Sep 2023 web OA PDF
    What’s Next? Writing Program Administration During and After the Pandemic ↗
    Jacob Babb; Jessie Blackburn
    writing program administration
  2. Sep 2023 web OA PDF
    As My Dad Lay Dying ↗
    Courtney Adams Wooten