WPA: Writing Program Administration

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April 2026

  1. Apr 2026 web
    From the Editors: Full Circle Momentum ↗
    Tracy Ann Morse; Patti Poblete; Wendy Sharer
    editorial matter
  2. Apr 2026 web
    Designing and Delivery: Improving Writing Center Administration through Consultant Feedback ↗
    Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison; Ashton Foley-Schramm
    writing centers
  3. Apr 2026 web
    “More than [a] Rhetoric”: Custom Textbook Creation as Graduate Student Instructor Professional Development ↗
    D-Jay Bidwell; Jordan Dagenais; Holly Hassel; Brilynn Janckila; Jennifer Nish; Elizabeth Novotny; Sharvaree Sawant
    rhetorical criticism graduate education professional writing
  4. Apr 2026 web
    “What Happens When I…?” Fostering a Culture of Curiosity and Pedagogical Change in TA Onboarding ↗
    Emily Robinson; Christina Saidy
    writing pedagogy
  5. Apr 2026 web
    Holistic Guided Self-Placement for Multilingual Student Writers ↗
    Hadi Riad Banat; Lauren Marshall Bowen
    multilingual writers
  6. Apr 2026 web
    Research Method Choices: Addressing Barriers and Limitations Integrating Primary Research Methods in First-Year Composition ↗
    Sarah E. S. Carter
    first-year composition
  7. Apr 2026 web
    Ready for the Remix, Rewriting, Rewiring, and Reimagining WPAing: Administrative Rhetorical Mindfulness in Action ↗
    Melvin E. Beavers
    rhetorical criticism
  8. Apr 2026 web
    Critical Engaged Administration: WPAs Navigating the Ethical Frontier of GenAI in Writing Instruction ↗
    Lilian W. Mina
    writing pedagogy
  9. Apr 2026 web
    A Composite Story: Analyzing the Call for a Boycott of the CWPA ↗
    Brent Cameron
  10. Apr 2026 web
    Introduction to “Renewing Our Vows” ↗
    Kelly Blewett; Erin Lehman
  11. Apr 2026 web
    Renewing Our Vows: Reflecting on a Year of Cultural Assessment Conversations ↗
    Michelle Bachelor Robinson; Jacob Babb; Kelly Blewett; Daryl Lynn Dance; Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison; Erin Lehman; Patti Poblete; Mary Lourdes Silva; Darci Thoune
    assessment
  12. Apr 2026 web
    Responses to Renewing Our Vows ↗
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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 OA PDF
    From the Editors: Manifesting Our Value in This Moment ↗
    Tracy Ann Morse; Patti Poblete; Wendy Sharer; Kelly Moreland
    editorial matter
  2. Apr 2025 web OA PDF
    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 OA PDF
    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 OA PDF
    WPA Protocols for Increased Retention: Writing Program Administrators and Health of the University ↗
    Kay Siebler
    writing program administration
  5. Apr 2025 web OA PDF
    Navigating Competing Values at Public Liberal Arts Colleges: WPA Work and Mission Alignment ↗
    N. Claire Jackson
  6. Apr 2025 web OA PDF
    Reframing Composition Discourse in the Age of Completion-Based Policy Reform ↗
    Halle M. Neiderman
    discourse analysis
  7. Apr 2025 web OA PDF
    Toward an Intellectually Honest Evaluation of Writing Administration’s Quotidian Labor ↗
    Daniel Libertz; Joshua Barsczewski
    assessment
  8. Apr 2025 web OA PDF
    Review of Desegregation State: College Writing Programs after the Civil Rights Movement ↗
    Nicole O’Connell
    first-year composition book reviews
  9. Apr 2025 web OA PDF
    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