WPA

WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include writing faculty education, training, and professional development; writing program creation and design, the development of rhetoric and writing curricula; writing assessment within programmatic contexts advocacy and institutional critique and change; writing programs and their extra-institutional relationships with writing's publics; technology and the delivery of writing instruction within programmatic contexts; WPA and writing program histories and contexts; WAC / ECAC / WID and their intersections with writing programs; the theory and philosophy of writing program administration issues of professional advancement and WPA work; and projects that enhance WPA work with diverse stakeholders. CONTENTS OF WPA 49.2 (Spring 2026): FROM THE EDITORS: Full Circle Momentum by Tracy Ann Morse, Patti Poblete, and Wendy Sharer | EVERYTHING IS PRAXIS: Designing and Delivery: Improving Writing Center Administration through Consultant Feedback by Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison and Ashton Foley-Schramm | "More than [a] Rhetoric": Custom Textbook Creation as Graduate Student Instructor Professional Development by D-Jay Bidwell, Jordan Dagenais, Holly Hassel, Brilynn Janckila, Jennifer Nish, Elizabeth Novotny, and Sharvaree Sawant | "What Happens When I...?" Fostering a Culture of Curiosity and Pedagogical Change in TA Onboarding Emily Robinson and Christina Saidy | ESSAYS: Holistic Guided Self-Placement for Multilingual Student Writers by Hadi Riad Banat and Lauren Marshall Bowen | Research Method Choices: Addressing Barriers and Limitations Integrating Primary Research Methods in First-Year Composition by Sarah E. S. Carter | CONFERENCE KEYNOTES: Ready for the Remix, Rewriting, Rewiring, and Reimagining WPAing: Administrative Rhetorical Mindfulness in Action by Melvin E. Beavers | Critical Engaged Administration: WPAs Navigating the Ethical Frontier of GenAI in Writing Instruction by Lilian W. Mina | FEATURED SECTION: LEARNING FROM THE BOYCOTT: A Composite Story: Analyzing the Call for a Boycott of the CWPA by Brent Cameron | Introduction to "Renewing Our Vows" by Kelly Blewett and Erin Lehman | Renewing Our Vows: Reflecting on a Year of Cultural Assessment Conversations by Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Jacob Babb, Kelly Blewett, Daryl Lynn Dance, Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison, Erin Lehman, Patti Poblete, Mary Lourdes Silva, and Darci Thoune | Responses to Renewing Our Vows by CWPA Consultant-Evaluator Service, Michael Pemberton and Jonnika Charlton; WPA: Writing Program Administration, Tracy Ann Morse, Patti Poblete, and Wendy Sharer; WPA Graduate Organization: Taylor Dickson, Roland Dumavor, Jagadish Paudel, Mustapha Bannerman; Rofiat Bello, Cody Bursch, Nariman Hawily, Kelsey Hawkins, and Phatik Poudyal; CWPA Ex Officio Officers: Secretary, Amanda Presswood, Treasurer, Christal Seahorn, and Incoming Vice President, David F. Green