Grounded in a series of local accounts, this webtext examines complex issues facing pre-tenure writing program administrators as they enter the professoriate while negotiating hybrid identities as teachers, researchers, and administrators. Developed out of a roundtable at the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication, the project also emphasizes contemporary alternatives to roundtable design that regard openness, accessibility, and persistence as priorities for delivery and circulation.

This essay suggests a companion term to literacy sponsors that better mirrors the practice and protection of traditional literacies evident in the cases of two Dakelh elders. Literacy steward introduces a theoretical means to describe community members whose rhetorical decisions depend on traditions that are alternative to dominant literacies.