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[Table of Contents]

President’s Welcome

Acknowledgements

Conference Planning

CWPA Executive Board

History of the Conference

WPA Awards

Plenary Address

WPA Workshop

Institutes

Conference Features

Program Schedule

*President’s Welcome+

Welcome to the 2012 CWPA conference! We hope that the next few days in Albuquerque offer you opportunities to reconnect with colleagues at other institutions and to make new friends who share your interests in writing programs.

We chose this year’s theme─ Writing Directions: Connecting Literacies, Languages, and Localities─ to remind us that literacies, languages, and localities are interwoven in a rich tapestry. Our host state, New Mexico, is the site of diverse literacies, languages, localities, and landscapes. While you are in the area, we hope that you have opportunities to experience the diversity of languages and cultures, with linguistic traditions dating back thousands of years.

This year’s conference continues two recent CWPA initiatives: the CWPA Mentoring Project and WPA Directions. The conference features page includes more information about these initiatives. We hope that you will participate in both.

Even though acknowledgements appear in the pages that follow, we need to emphasize that many people have worked thousands of hours to plan this conference. Please spend a few minutes to read the acknowledgements. We hope that you will thank these folks when you see them during the conference. We also thank all of you who are making presentations and leading discussions at the conference. Without you, there would be no conference.

We hope that you have a wonderful conference and that you leave Albuquerque with new levels of excitement about writing program administration.

Duane Roen, CWPA President and Conference Co-Organizer Chuck Paine Conference Co-Organizer

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[Acknowledgements]

Hosting University, The University of New Mexico

Charles Lowe, Out-of-this-world coordinator of all things technological Charles Paine, Inspirational local chair extraordinaire

Kelly Kinney, Stupendous publishers’ contact Joseph Janangelo, Timothy Dougherty, and Michele Eodice, Wondrous Mentoring Project motivators

Daniel Cryer, Legendary local contributor Genesea Carter, Marvelous local host Lindsey Ives, Inspirational member of the local team Dylan Gauntt, Local host extraordinaire Michelle Kells, Fantastic local host Daniel Sanford, Rockstar contributor to the local team Mellisa Huffman, Wonderful local team member Julianne Newmark, Amazing local host Julie Ford, Awesome local contributor Anna Knutson, Sensational addition to the local team Brian Hendrickson, Superb local contributor Genevieve Garcia de Mueller, Extraordinary local host AnnaRose Fitzgerald, Spectacular local host Christine Garcia, Super addition to the local team Joe Serio, Unbelievable contributor to all things local Deb Paczynski, Terrific local host

Cristyn Elder and Megan Schoen, Groovy WPA-GO gurus

Brent Chappelow, Fantastic Road Runner Run/Walk organizer Margaret Munson, Fabulous Program Editor Shealyn Campbell, Rockstar Assistant Program Editor Program Photo Credit, New Mexico Moon - March 2012 by Jim Crotty, Hot Air Balloons - July 2009 by Jason Ross Williams, Wild Horses near Sandia Mountains in New Mexico - March 2012 by Jim Crotty, When Day Breaks in New Mexico - March 2012 by Jim Crotty, Overlooking Georgia O'Keefe's Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico - April 2012 by Desert Bug, Chile Ristras and Garlics - May 2009 by 77krc, White Sands - December 2011 by Colin Gallagher, Hotel Albuquerque – May 2011 by Daniel Sanford

We thank Frederick Corey, Director of the School of Letters and Sciences, Dean of University

College, and Assistant Vice Provost at Arizona State University. He has steadfastly provided support that has made it possible for Duane Roen to fulfill his duties as CWPA Vice President, President, and conference co-chair. The graduate students and writing teachers from hosting universities, who dedicated their time at the tables to help wanderers with questions and maintain a semblance of order. We thank David Blakesley for out-of-this-world program design, layout, and printing.

All of you for coming to the conference!

We also thank exhibitors and sponsors for their support of the conference and special events as indicated: Bedford/St. Martins Publishers – Friday AM and PM breaks and the WPA-GO travel grants

Pearson – Saturday evening outing

W.W. Norton – Friday evening reception and partial sponsorship of Saturday breaks

McGraw Hill– Partial sponsorship of Saturday breaks

Hayden-McNeil– WPA-GO Friday night social Waypoint Outcomes– Conference tote bags

Conference Planning and CWPA Executive Board

Conference Program Committee: Tiffany Bourelle, David Blakesley, Shealyn Campbell, Brent Chappelow, Cindy Cowles, Timothy Dougherty, Violet A. Dutcher, Cristyn Elder, Dayna Goldstein, Joseph Janangelo, Kelly Kinney, Rita Malenczyk, Margaret Munson, Charles Paine, Duane Roen, Carol A. Rutz, Jeremy Schnieder, Megan Schoen

Hosting Institution: The University of New Mexico

Council of Writing Program Executive Board: Duane Roen, President, Arizona State University (term ends 2013; will succeed to Past President) Rita Malenczyk, Vice President, Eastern Connecticut State University (term ends 2013; will succeed to President) Linda Adler-Kassner, Immediate Past-President, University of California Santa Barbara (term ends 2013) Kelly Kinney, Binghamton University, State University of New York (term ends 2013) E. Shelley Reid, George Mason University (term ends 2013) Barbara Lutz, University of Delaware (term ends 2013) Peter Adams, Baltimore County Community College (term ends 2014) Mark McBeth, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (term ends 2014) Kate Ryan, University of Montana (term ends 2014) Jill Gladstein, Swarthmore College (term ends 2015) Libby Miles, University of Rhode Island (term ends 2015) Kelly Ritter, University of North Carolina-Greensboro (term ends 2015)

Ex Officio: Keith Rhodes, Secretary; Charles Lowe, Treasurer and Web Developer, both of Grand

Valley State University

Consultant-Evaluator Service: Charles Schuster, Director, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Doug Hesse, Associate Director, University of Denver WPA Journal Editorial Team: Alice Horning, Managing Editor; Debra Dew, Co-Editor; Greg Giberson, Lori Ostergaard, and Elizabeth Allan, Assistant Editors; Ed White, Book Review Editor; Jason Carabelli, Advertising Manager; Janae Greene, Student assistant WPA-GO: Laurie Pinkert, Co-Chair, Purdue University

[History of the Conference]

WPA Presidency

Harvey Weiner 1979–1985

Winifred Horner 1985–1986

Linda Peterson 1987–1988

Lynn Z. Bloom 1989–1990

Ben McClelland 1991–1992

Barbara Cambridge 1993–1994

Charles Schuster 1995–1996

Theresa Enos 1997–1998

Doug Hesse 1999–2000

Kathleen Blake Yancey 2001–2002

Chris Anson 2003–2005

Shirley K. Rose 2005–2007

Joseph Janangelo 2007–2009

Linda Adler-Kassner 2009-2011

Duane Roen 2011-2013

WPA Conferences

1982: Martha's Vineyard, MA

1983: Martha's Vineyard, MA

1984: La Jolla, CA

1985: Durham, NH

1986: Oxford, OH

1987: Logan, UT

1988: Newport, RI 1989: Oxford, OH

1990: Portland, OR

1991: Saratoga Springs, NY

1992: Breckenridge, CO

1993: Oxford, OH

1994: Oxford, MS

1995: Bellingham, WA

1996: Oxford, OH

1997: Houghton, MI

1998: Tucson, AZ

1999: West Lafayette, IN

2000: Charlotte, NC

2001: Oxford, OH

2002: Salt Lake and Park City, UT

2003: Grand Rapids, MI 2004: Newark, DE

2005: Anchorage, AK

2006: Chattanooga, TN

2007: Tempe, AZ

2008: Denver, CO

2009: Minneapolis, MN

2010: Philadelphia, PA

2011: Baton Rouge, LA

2012: Albuquerque, NM

2013: Savannah, GA July 14-21

2014: Normal, IL July 13-20

2015: Boise, ID July 12-19

2016: Raleigh, NC July 10-17

2017: Knoxville, TN July 16-23

[WPA Awards]

AWARD FOR BEST ARTICLE IN WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

1999–2000: “Constructing Composition: Reproduction and WPA Agency in Textbook Publishing,” by Libby Miles (Fall/Winter 2000). 2001–2002: “Using Multimedia to Teach Communication Across the Curriculum,” by Mary Hocks (Fall/Winter 2001). 2003–2004: “Politics, Rhetoric and Service Learning,” by Candace Spigelman (Fall 2004). 2005–2006: “Combating Monolingualism: A Novice Administrator’s Challenge,” by Gail Shuck (Fall 2006). 2008-2009: "What's Theorizing Got to Do With It? Teaching Theory as Resourceful Conflict and Reflection in TA Preparation" by Michael Stancliff and Maureen Daly Goggin (Spring 2007). Honorable mention: "Memoranda of Fragile Machinery: A Portrait of Shaughnessy as Intellectual-Bureaucrat" by Mark McBeth (Fall/Winter 2007) 2010- 2011: "Pedagogical Memory: Writing, Mapping, Translating," by Susan C. Jarratt, Katherine Mack, Alexandra Sartor, and Shevaun E. Watson (Fall/Winter 2009)

AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING BOOK ON WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

2000–2001: Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum, edited by Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and Robert A. Schwegler (Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 2000). 2002–2003: The Writing Program Administrator’s Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice, edited by Stuart C. Brown and Theresa Enos (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2002).

2003–2004: The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship, edited by Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead (Utah State University Press, 2003). 2004–2005: Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Com-munities, and the Formation of a Discipline, edited by Barbara L’Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo (Parlor Press, 2004). 2006–2007: Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon, edited by Kathleen Blake Yancey (Boynton/Cook 2006) and Because We Live Here by Eli Goldblatt (Hampton Press, 2007). 2009- 2010: The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writers and Writing, by Linda Adler-Kassner (Utah State University Press, 2008). Honorable mention: Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960, by Kelly Ritter (NCTE/CCCC and Southern Illinois University Press, 2009). Award for Graduate Writing in WPA Studies: Shan-Estelle Brown, Yale University School of Medicine

Mandy Suhr-Sytsma, University of Connecticut

Honorable Mention: Sue Mendelsohn, Columbia University

2012 CCCC WPA-GO Travel Grant Awardees: Top-prize Winners ($250.00 each): Jennifer Forsthoefel, Georgia State University

Caroline Wilkinson, University of Louisville

Winners ($100.00 each): Ashley J. Holmes, University of Arizona

Brent Chappelow, Arizona State University

Ryan Roderick, University of Maine

Elizabeth Leahy, University of Arizona

Courtney Stanton, Temple University 2012 WPA Conference WPA-GO Graduate Student Travel Grant Awardees: To Be Announced

[Plenary Address]

[Figure 5] July 19: Linda Adler-Kassner, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Company(ies) We Keep: Tactics and Strategies in Challenging Times

Linda Adler-Kassner, current Past President of CWPA, is a professor of writing and director of the Writing Program at University of California, Santa Barbara. Most recently, her research has focused on issues related to writing and public policy, including analyzing policy contexts for writing instruction and helping writing instructors and program directors develop strategies to affect that context. This research extends directly from her experiences as a writing program director and a

teacher of first year writing and graduate classes in composition theory. It also extends from her experience with CWPA and with the WPA Network for Media Action. With Peggy O’Neill, she is the author of Reframing Writing Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning (Utah State UP, 2010). She is also the author of The Activist WPA: Changing Stories About Writers and Writing (Utah State UP, 2008), which won the WPA Best Book Award. She is also co-author or co-editor of six other books and many articles and book chapters.

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[Plenary Address]

[Figure 7] July 20: Marilyn Valentino, Lorain County Community College

Serving Those Who’ve Served: Preparing for Writing Warriors in our Writing Programs, Classes and Writing Centers

Marilyn Valentino, is a Professor of English at Lorain County Community College in Ohio, where she teaches composition, world literature, American literature, oral communication, and English as a second language. At LCCC, she has been a Coordinator of the Learning and Writing Center, Interim Director of the Arts and Humanities Division, Coordinator of Adjunct Faculty, Director of Innovative Learning Research, Coordinator for the High-School English Assessment Program, a member of International Initiatives, and co-founded The Center for Teaching Excellence.

At NCTE, she has served as the Chair of CCCC, Chair of TYCA, and on NCTE’s EC, the College Forum, and the Resolutions Committee. In addition, she co-authored Guidelines for the Preparation of English Faculty in Two-Year Colleges and was a reviewer for the TETYC Journal. In Ohio, she was President of the Association of Two-Year Colleges. Valentino has written articles on teaching writing, including “Responding When a Life Depends on It,” has given presentations on literature and teaching writing at NCTE, CCCC, MLA, and various other conferences, and has been a communication consultant for Invacare, Bendix, and other corporations. As director of the Toni Morrison 2nd Biennial Conference, Valentino produced the award-winning video Toni Morrison and the Meanings of Home as well as Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Teach, and When George Speaks.

Her research interests include response to student writing, new populations of students, and Magic Realism, for which she received an NEH award. Valentino has also taught abroad in Australia and at Changsha University, China, and completed a Fulbright study in Vietnam. She has taught at Youngstown State University, Ashland University, Wright State, and Baldwin Wallace and has been awarded Teacher Excellence Awards from her College, TYCA-Midwest, and NISOD. Her writing is posted in the National Gallery on Writing.

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[Plenary Address]

[Figure 9] July 21: Paul Kei Matsuda, Arizona State University

Writing Programs in Global and Multilingual U.S. Higher Education: The Implications of the Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity for WPAs

Paul Kei Matsuda, is Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing at Arizona State University, where he works closely with doctoral and master's students in Rhetoric and Composition, Applied Linguistics and TESOL. He has directed writing programs at Arizona State University and at the University of New Hampshire, and has edited a special issue of the WPA Journal focusing on linguistic diversity and writing program administration.

Paul has published widely on issues relevant to writing program administrators, including placement and curriculum design, the professional development of writing teachers, demographic shifts in higher education, and the implications of linguistic diversity for writing teachers and programs. His article, "The Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity in U.S. College Composition," received the 2006 Richard Ohmann Award for the Outstanding Refereed Article in College English. Co-founding chair of the Symposium on Second Language Writing and the editor of the Parlor Press Series on Second Language Writing, Paul initiated the CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing and crafted the original CCCC Statement on Second Language Writers and Writing. He also has been working as an independent consultant, conducting program reviews and workshops for writing programs across the United States and around the world. He currently serves on editorial boards of a dozen journals, including College English, Journal of Basic Writing, Journal of Second Language Writing, Written Communication, and the WPA Journal.

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[WPA Workshop]

Join new, prospective, and continuing administrators of all varieties of writing programs—including FYC, writing centers, WAC, ESL, and basic writing—in three and a half days of workshopping and conversation addressing the theoretical, curricular, and political demands of our work. Topics will include: · What is a WPA?

· Institutional Relationships and Politics

· Directing Writing Programs at Different Types of Institutions

· Program Design, Outcomes, and Goals

· Hiring Practices, Faculty Development, and Faculty Evaluation

· Student and Program Assessment · Understanding Budgets

· Developing and Articulating Relationships among FYC, WAC Programs, Writing Majors, and

Writing Centers

· Writing Program Research

· Writing Program Outreach and Public Advocacy

· The Council of Writing Program Administrators as a Professional Resource

· Writing as a WPA

Participants will gather Sunday afternoon, July 15, meet daily through Wednesday afternoon, July 18, and will have the opportunity to consult individually with workshop leaders in the evenings. In the workshop, participants will be encouraged to raise issues from their own professional

situations, which have in the past included liberal arts colleges, two-year colleges, regional and flagship state universities, and major research institutions.

Awardees of the Underrepresented Writing Program Administrators Summer Workshop Grants

The WPA Fund for the Support of Underrepresented Writing Program Administrators provides financial support to writing program administrators who are members of underrepresented groups to attend the WPA Summer Workshop. These groups include African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino and Latina Americans, and Native Americans. Involvement in and contributions to the work of writing program administration by members of these groups is critically important to our profession. This year the winners will be announced during the conference.

[Workshop Leaders]

[Figure 11] Shirley K. Rose is Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Arizona

State University (Tempe), the nation’s largest college writing program, and is a Past President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. She has held WPA roles at Eastern Michigan University, San Diego State University, and Purdue University and has also served as Assistant Head of the Purdue Department of English and is an experienced writing program consultant. Shirley regularly teaches graduate courses in writing program administration and has authored numerous articles on writing pedagogy, the intellectual work of writing program administration, and issues in documenting the work of writing programs. With Irwin Weiser, she has edited three collections of essays on the intellectual work of writing program administration.

[Figure 12] Dominic DelliCarpini is Dean of Academic Affairs at York College of Pennsylvania,

where he was Writing Program Administrator for several years. Dominic served on the Executive Board of the Council of Writing Program Administrators from 2003-2006 and has been a member of the CWPA’s Network for Media Action (NMA) since its inception. He is a founding member of the National Conversation on Writing and has published numerous articles on issues in writing program administration as well as several writing textbooks. He is the Secretary of the Conference on college Composition and Communication.

[Institutes]

“The WPA Research Primer: Action Plans for WPA-Researchers”

[Figure 13]Christiane (Tiane) Donahue, Dartmouth College, Hanover

[Figure 14]Neal Lerner, Northeastern University

Writing Program Administrators are in a complicated position. They are teaching, directing programs and writing centers, spearheading curricular initiatives, negotiating complex relationships across institutions, and often working towards tenure. In this context, “research” can take on particular shapes, benefits, and challenges. How might WPAs “do” research, of what kind, and with what purposes and approaches?

This one-day institute will offer the tools for helping participants to determine what they need to know to engage in data-driven research. Participants will be asked to provide the leaders with their ideas for research a week before the workshop. Based on the projects described, the first part of the institute will focus on useful processes for: • determining and refining researchable questions

• choosing appropriate methods in the context of available literature

• identifying needed resources to carry out the project The second segment of the day will focus on how to talk with colleagues and administrators about your research, including using the language of evidence and data; how to manage the time commitment to research; and how to make the most of your WPA research agenda. A final segment will focus on planning to disseminate research, once completed, in publication venues or to institutional audiences. The participants should leave the workshop with a personal action plan, identifying the next steps and the needed resources for moving a particular project forward.

[Institutes]

“The WPA as Writer”

[Figure 15] Douglas Hesse, University of Denver

We nearly all began as writers. Along the way to current roles, our writing life tended to truncate, to the pragmatic work of administration, the academic work of publication. These efforts often reward and satisfy. But they seldom allow the kinds of writing that first entranced us: the memoirs and personal essays, the stories and poems, the editorials and features, the self-sponsored works enacting craft and pleasure more than tactic and task. This workshop will make a space for these often neglected writings, making a case for its value in a WPA’s life, giving strategies for allowing, sustaining, and publishing it. Along the way will be extended time for writing and sharing. I’ll bring in some prompts and ideas or let you pursue your own.

[Institutes]

“From Principles to Practice: Using Assessment to Tell Stories about Writing Programs”

[Figure 16] Linda Adler-Kassner, University of California Santa Barbara

[Figure 17] Peggy O’Neill, Loyola University

This hands-on workshop provides participants with strategies for every stage of writing program assessment conceptualization, execution, analysis and feedback. The session will emphasize the power of assessment to tell the story of writing for both internal and external audiences. Session facilitators will lead activities aimed at meeting participants’ individual needs with practical materials. Large group discussions about assessment principles will be enhanced with small group sessions focused on individual needs and special topics such as the Rhetoric of Assessment and

Transforming Qualitative Results. Attendees will have time to work on their own assessment projects, collaborate with others, and consult with leaders.

Conference Features

As you move through the Frameworks for Success in WPA 2012, there are a number of features that can help you organize your conference experience.

Conference Strands

All of the sessions in WPA 2012 have been placed into one of ten strands: Mentoring Project Strand

Based on the many helpful suggestions made by respondents to the WPA Mentoring Project Survey—and recommendations and requests received throughout the process of planning and conducting Mentoring Project Sessions at the 2010 conference—WPA 2012 features mentoring events driven by the needs and concerns of you, our members. Throughout the conference, all of the sessions in the Weavers Room will host Mentoring Project sessions; however, there are also mentoring sessions in other rooms throughout the conference, as well. Please come by and share your needs and expertise at some or all of these sessions. We welcome your input, contributions, and advice!

Additional strands: Assessment WAC/WID

Multicultural/Mutilingual Digital Literacies

Pedagogy

Theory/Research

Framework/K-16

Literacy/Outreach

The Future of FYC

6- and 10-Minute Presentation Panels

As you know, this year’s CFP asked people to propose 6- or 10-minute talks (or sessions). Typically, where you see 3-4 presenters you can count on 10-minute presentations with plenty of time for discussion. Where you see 4-6 presenters you can count on 6-minute presentations, again with plenty of time for conversation.

WPA Directions 3.0

At WPA 2009, we introduced WPA Directions so that you, the membership, could help focus WPA’s efforts for 2009. At this year’s conference, in addition to the Mentoring Project strand, you’ll see a number of sessions that reflect ideas that emerged from WPA Directions.

At this year’s conference we’ll build on that work with WPA Directions 3.0. We’ll continue to solicit your input via WPA Directions postcards – use these to help forge CWPA’s efforts for the coming year.

We’ll return to all of the issues and ideas you generate in Sunday’s Town Hall Meeting, where we will discuss CWPA initiatives and ideas that have been sparked for you throughout the conference.

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