WPA 2007 Program Overview
Sunday 7/8 - Wednesday 7/11
9:00 - 4:30 / WPA Summer Workshop / Dolores
Thursday 7/12
9:00 - 4:00 / Assessment Institute / Dolores
9:00 - 4:00 / Research Institute / Abbey South
5:30 - 7:00 / Plenary session with Kyoko Sato / Palm A, B, C
7:00 - 8:00 / Opening reception / Palm A, B, C
Dinner on your own
Friday 7/13
6:30 - 8:30 / Breakfast buffet voucher in your packet / Mission Grill buffet
8:30 - 9:30 / Plenary session with Jaime Mejia / Palm A, B, C
9:30 - 10:00 / Discussion sessions / Palm A, B, C
10:00 - 10:30 / Break / Palm A, B, C
10:30 - 11:45 / Concurrent sessions A
11:45 - 1:00 / Lunch / Mission Grill buffet
1:00 - 2:15 / Concurrent sessions B
2:15 - 2:45 / Break / Palm A, B, C
2:45 - 4:15 / Concurrent sessions C
4:15 - 5:45 / Concurrent sessions D
5:45 - 6:45 / WPA Editorial Board (closed session) / Xavier
6:30 - 7:30 / Cocktails / University Club, ASU
7:30 -- / Banquet with Edward M. White as the featured speaker / awards / Old Main Ballroom, ASU campus
Saturday 7/14
6:30 - 8:30 / Breakfast buffet voucher in your packet / Mission Grill buffet
8:30 - 9:45 / Concurrent sessions E
9:45 - 10:15 / Break / Palm A, B, C
10:15 - 11:45 / Concurrent sessions F
11:45 - 12:45 / Box lunch / Palm A, B, C
12:15 - 1:15 / Plenary session with Doug Hesse, Jennifer Campbell, and Eliana Schonberg / Palm A, B, C
1:15 - 1:45 / Discussion sessions / Palm A, B, C
1:45 - 3:00 / Concurrent sessions G
3:00 - 4:30 / Concurrent sessions H
4:45 or so / Leave for baseball game
Dinner on your own
Sunday 7/15
6:30 - 8:30 / Tables reserved in buffet area for Special Interest Groups
8:30 - 10:00 / Town Hall Meeting and conference close / Palm A, B, C

Breakdown of Panels and Workshops

Friday July 13th

Concurrent Sessions A (10:30-11:45a)

A1 Ironstone

Professional Development Workshop

Mapping WPA Spaces: Creative Approaches to Creative Work

Rita Malenczyk, Eastern Connecticut State University

Lauren Fitzgerald, Yeshiva University

A2/B2 Sand Lotus

(Double Panel Session) Program Development Workshop: The History, Theory, and Practice of Good Program Assessments

Cindy Moore, Eastern Kentucky University

William MacCauley, College of Wooster

Brian Huot, Kent State University

A3: Dolores

WPA Perspectives on Information Literacy: First-year Writing at the Core of Accreditation

“Information Literacy: First-year Writing at the Core of Accreditation”

Amy Childers, North Georgia College & State University

Joyce Stavick, North Georgia College & State University

Tanya Bennett, North Georgia College & State University

“Information Literacy and Writing: A Rhetorical Analysis of Standards and

Outcomes”

Barbara D’Angelo, Arizona State University

A4: Capistrano

Reconsidering Readiness for WPAs

"Revisiting ‘The WPA’s Progress' Survey Twenty Years Later: Practices, Prospects, and Preparation”

Jonikka Charlton, University of Texas-Pan Am

Shirley K Rose, Purdue University

“The Metic Down the Hall: A Neosophistic Defense of Writing Program

Administration”

Rob Lively, University of Nevada-Reno

A5: Wind Flower

New Media and the Changing "Faces" of Writing Programs

“Remediating Writing Program Administrators”

Carrie Leverenz, Texas Christian University

“First-Year Writing Instruction: Mapping and Bridging Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century”

Dwedor Ford, Clayton State University

“Listening to Our Students: Identity, Facebook, and Writing Programs”

Tom Pace, John Carroll University

A6: Xavier

(Re)Writing the University: Promoting Critical College Literacy in First-Year Composition

“A Theoretical Frame for Critical College Literacy”

Rachel Lewis, University of Arizona

“Analyzing the Academy as a Rhetorical Construct”

Ronald Lorette, University of Arizona

“Using the College Experience to Teach Academic Writing”

Laurie Morrison, University of Arizona

A7: Cavetto

Classrooms and Centers: From Handmaid to Dominatrix to Collaborator

Joan Mullin, University of Texas-Austin

Barbara Schneider, University of Toledo

A8: Colonnade

Perspectives on Conflict

“’Able Not to Speak’ vs. ‘Not Able to Speak’? A WPA Reads Lyotard, Ponders Differends, and Plays Administrative Language”

Karla Saari Kitalong, University of Central Florida

“Conflict Management in Writing Programs”

Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Purdue University

“A ‘Day-in-the-Life’ of a Writing Program Administrator: A Performance, an Essay, a Monologue”

David Maquard, University of Nevada-Reno

Concurrent Sessions B (1:00-2:15p)

B1 Capistrano

Professional Development Workshop

Crafting a WPA Peer Review Process

E. Shelley Reid, George Mason University

Irwin Weiser, Purdue University

B3: Ironstone

Case Study in Institutional Change: the First Full Year of the Independent University Writing Program at the University of California at Davis

Chris Thaiss, University of California

Gary Sue Goodman, University of California

B4: Cavetto

Encountering and Coordinating Change

“Moving past Stable: How outside evaluation can help a community-based

writing program grow beyond its initial success”

Tiffany Rousculp, Salt Lake Community College

Eli Goldblatt, Temple University

“Feminist WPA: A Graduate Student Prepares for the Known & Unknown”

Nick Plunkey, University of Nevada-Reno

B5: Xavier

Technology as a Means to WPA Readiness, Relevance, and Relationships

Jeffrey Jablonski, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Ed Nagelhout, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Glenn Blalock, Baylor University

B6: Dolores

Achieving Readiness and Relevance across the Curriculum

“Strengthening Relationships & Sharing Responsibilities: Arts & Sciences

Teaching Assistants Teach Writing”

Kimberly Harrison, Florida International University

“Part-Time Composition Faculty: The Essential Link Between Writing Center, Composition Program, and Writing-in-the-Disciplines” Richard Matzen Jr., Woodbury University

“From Tutor to Teacher: Readying TAs and Fostering WAC Relationships”

Georgianna Miller, University of Arizona

“Developing a Writing Lab within the Social Science College: A model for

embedding writing labs in academic colleges”

Joyce Adams, Brigham Young University

B7: Wind Flower

Marking and Making Progress

“Writing Program Administration as PhD”

Maggie McDermott, University of Missouri-Columbus

“’This Recipe Calls for Inexpensive and Accessible Household Items’: Creating a Certificate in the Teaching of Writing”

Becky Caouette, University of Connecticut

“Conceiving Graduate Writing: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?”

Gerri McNenny, Chapman University

Jan Osborn, Chapman University

B8: Colonnade

Tipping Points and Turning Points: WPAs Prepare for the Future

“Revisiting the 1988 Blair / Smith Debate: A Case for Hybrid Writing Classes”

Marty Patton, University of Missouri-Columbus

“Australian University Programs in Writing: Graduate and Discipline Futures”

Donna Lee Brien, University of New England

“Sites of Need/Sites of Change: Building ESL Instruction into the Teaching

Methods Course”

Kristine Hansen, Brigham Young University

Joe Janangelo, Loyola University Chicago

Concurrent Sessions C (2:45-4:15p)

C2 Ironstone

Professional Development Workshop

Untenured WPAs as Change Agents: When to Rule, When to Run, When to Hide

Doug Downs, Utah Valley State University

Barry Maid, Arizona State University

E. Shelley Reid, George Mason University

Rita Malenczyk, Eastern Connecticut University

C3: Xavier

Using Reflective Portfolios for Program Assessment in the Community College

Susan Pagnac, Des Moines Area Community College

Alan Hutchison, Des Moines Area Community College

Eden Peason, Des Moines Area Community College

C4: Colonnade

Readiness: When Preparation Involves Quick and Good Thinking

“For Our Next Trick: Balancing Innovation and the Status Quo in Writing

Program Review, or What Have We Done for Them Lately”

Marvin Diogenes, Stanford University

“Down and Out in English 101: The Director Teaches First-Year Composition”

Bob Broad, Illinois State University

C5: Wind Flower

Categorizing Multimodal Resources: Making Resource-Based Writing More Relevant to Our Students

Susan Miller-Cochran, North Carolina State University

Rochelle Rodrigo, Mesa Community College

C6: Dolores

Mission Impossible: Developing the George Washington University’s New Theme-Based Writing Program

Carol Hayes, George Washington University

Heather Schell, George Washington University

Melinda Knight, George Washington University

C7: Sand Lotus

“And this is relevant because..?” Tutor Development Programs and Tutors’ Goals

Lori Salem, Temple University

Betsy Allan, Temple University

Dan Gallagher, Temple, University

Jaime Longo, Temple University

Daniel Ellis, Temple University

Concurrent Sessions D (4:15-5:45p)

D2 Xavier

Professional Development Workshop

Reconstructing the WPA: Building an Inclusive Paradigm

William Klein, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Suellynn Duffey, University of Missouri-St. Louis

D3: Colonnade

Preparing Accreditation and Program Review

“From the State that Brought you ‘No Child Left Behind’: Composition

Curriculum and the Texas Legislature

Pat Tyrer, West Texas A&M University

“At the Corner of 4th & Main: Preparing for Program Review when Institutional Documents Never Intersect Our Program's Function” Adrien Lowery, Azusa Pacific University

D4: Ironstone

A Great Divide? Literature Graduate Students as WPAs

Melissa Ianetta, University of Delaware

Kate Slaugh-Sanford, University of Delaware

Michelle Filling, University of Delaware

D5: Sand Lotus

Fourth-Generation WAC: Three Case Studies

Bill Condon, Washington State University

Carol Rutz, Carleton College

Stephen Wilhoit, University of Dayton

D6: Dolores

New Directions in Curriculum Development

“Constructing a Big Text: Developing a Multimodal Plan for Composition

Instruction”

Joyce Walker, Western Michigan University

“Room for One More?: Benefits and Challenges of Moving Service Learning into the WPA’s (Already Crowded) House”

Terri Fredrick, Eastern Illinois University

“Designing a Writing Course on Human Rights”

Patricia Dodd, Brookhaven College

D7: Wind Flower

Interdisciplinary Diversity in the Urban University: A New Model for Writing Mentors

Regina Clemens, Arizona State University

Rosemarie Dombrowski, Arizona State University

Sarah Dean, Arizona State University

Saturday July14th

Concurrent Sessions E (8:30-9:45a)

E1 Capistrano

Program Development Workshop

Preparing a Program Self-Study (Sponsored by the WPA Consultant—Evaluator Service)

Doug Hesse, University of Denver

Edward M. White, University of Arizona

E2 Ironstone

Professional Development Workshop

Writing for the WPA Journal

William Macauley, College of Wooster

Deirdre Pettipiece, Cheyney University

Timothy Ray, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

E3: Colonnade

Riding the Waves: The Ongoing Work for Preparation

“All by Ourselves: Facing the Accreditation Review at a Small College” Kathleen McEvoy, Washington & Jefferson College

“Lemons into Lemonade: Readying Ourselves for CLA, NSSE, and Other

National Institutional Assessment Programs”

Michelle Sidler, Auburn University

“Problem-Solving for Constructive Program Assessment”

Shawn Hellman, Pima Community College

Simone Gers, Pima Community College

E4: Xavier

Ready or Not? On the Prospect of Becoming WPAs

Daylanne Markwardt, University of Arizona

Aja Martinez, University of Arizona

Ben Ristow, University of Arizona

David Sepulveda, University of Arizona

Denise Burgess, University of Arizona

E5: Wind Flower

Outcomes for Writing Across the Curriculum: Starting the Conversation

Chris Anson, North Carolina State University

Kathleen Blake Yancey, Florida State University

Martha Townsend, University of Missouri-Columbus

Paul Anderson, Miami University of Ohio

E6: Sand Lotus

WPA Research: Relevance and Responsibility

“Human Subjects Protocol and Mixed Messages: The Ideological Work of the Consent Process”

Jeanne Rose, Penn State University

“What Happened When I Took Stats and How it Changed My Comp Program”

Sandra Jamieson, Drew University

“Theories of Evolution: Conducting Archival Research in Writing Program

Administration”

Faith Kurtyaka, University of Missouri-Columbus

E7: Campanile

Developing Relationships through the WPA/The Three R’s, The Three Rs: Developing Readiness and Relevance Through Relationships

Linda Adler-Kassner, Eastern Michigan University

“"Overcoming Lonely Rhetor Syndrome: Creating a Rhet/Comp Community in the Small College"”

Dominic Delli Carpini, York College of Pennsylvania

“The Relevance of Location for First-Year Composition and Dual Enrollment Programs"

Heidi Estrem, Boise State University

"Walk it out: The Chi of Writing Program Administration"

Darsie Bowden, DePaul University

"Writing Program Administrator to Writing Program Assessor: Strategies for Making the Transition"

Peggy O’Neill, Loyola College

Concurrent Sessions F (10:15-11:45a)

F1 Program Development Workshop: Xavier

Reinventing a Small College Writing Program: Studying our Scratch

Carol Peterson Haviland, California State University

Lisa Lebduska, Wheaton College

F2 Capistrano

Program Development Workshop

Reviewing, Revamping and Creating Undergraduate Majors

Susan McLeod, University of California-Santa Barbara

Barbara L’Eplattenier, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Barry Maid, Arizona State University at the Polytech Campus

Keith Miller, Arizona State University

Deborah Balzhiser Morton, Texas State University

Sandra Jamieson, Drew University

F3: Colonnade

New Media Documentation of Faculty and Program Development

“Three-Dimensional Writing: Reflective Video Assessment”

Colin Charlton, University of Texas-Pan Am

Jonikka Charlton, University of Texas-Pan Am

“The Celluloid Workshop: Film Documentation of Faculty Development” Mark McBeth, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

F4: Ironstone

The Role of the WPA in Creating and Sustaining Disciplinarily, or—A Polylogue on the Pursuit of Disciplinary Happiness

Debra Frank Dew, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs

Doug Downs, Utah Valley State University

E. Shelley Reid, George Mason University

Elizabeth Wardle, University of Dayton

Kate Ryan, University of Montana-Missoula

F6: Wind Flower

Researching FYC Programs: Investigating Student Readiness, Program Relevance, and Relationships between Writing Programs

Anis Bawarshi, University of Washington-Seattle

Angela Jones, Western Kentucky University

Angela Rounsaville, University of Washington-Seattle

Rachel T. Goldberg, University of Washington-Seattle

Mary Jo Reiff, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Megan Kelly, University of Washington-Seattle

Nina Nell Haeckel, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Sergio Casillas, University of Washington-Seattle

Sorina Dragoi, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

William Doyle, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

F7: Campanile

The Complexity of Readiness: Facing our Many Challenges

“Timed Writing versus Untimed Writing for Placement”

Irwin Peckham, Louisiana State University

“Grammatical Correctness? Syntactic Fluency?: A Historical Perspective on Writing Development”

Heather Camp, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Contesting the Territoriality of ‘Freshman English’: The Political Ecology of Dual Enrollment”

Miles McCrimmon, J. Sergeant Reynolds Community College

F8: Sand Lotus

Open Meeting with WPA Presidential Team

Joe Janangelo, Loyola University Chicago, President

Linda Adler-Kassner, Eastern Michigan University, Vice President

Shirley K Rose, Purdue University, Past President

Concurrent Sessions G (1:45-3:00p)

G1/H1 Capistrano

(Double Session) WPA Working Session: Writing Items on NSSE, a WPA/NSSE Collaboration

Charles Paine, University of New Mexico

Robert Gonyea, National Survey of Student Engagement

G2/H2 Colonnade

(Double Session) WPA Working Session: National Conversation on Writing (Sponsored by the WPA Network for Media Action)

Linda Adler-Kassner, Eastern Michigan University

Darsie Bowden, DePaul University

Dominic Delli Carpini, York College of Pennsylvania

Peter Vandenberg, DePaul University

G3: Ironstone

Portfolio Assessment as a Generative Process

“Program Assessment as Program Renewal”

Joseph Jones, University of Memphis

“Implementing Phase 2 Portfolio Assessment at the University of New Mexico”

John Miles, University of New Mexico

Whitney Myers, University of New Mexico

G4: Xavier

Building Relationships Through Dialogue

“Talk about the Weather: The WPA and Campus Climate Change” Michele Eodice, University of Oklahoma

“Building Working Relationships by Creating a Department Strategic Plan and Website”

Shawn Hellman, Pima Community College

G5: Cavetto

Reading Supportively: How Data can Lead to Professional Development

Karen Nulton, Educational Testing Service

Irene Clark, CalState Northridge

G6: Campanile

Results as Rhetoric: Exploring the Possibilities of Proactive Writing Research

Mike Garcia, University of New Hampshire

Elliott Gruner, University of New Hampshire

Jeff Ringer, University of New Hampshire

Concurrent Sessions H (3:00-4:30p)

H3: Ironstone

Balancing Act: A Conversation about the Purposes and Challenges of Assessment

Cynthia Martin, James Madison University

Violet Dutcher, Eastern Mennonite University

Anna Peibe, Ball State University

Dara Rossman Regaigon, Pomona College

Glenna Andrade, Roger Williams University

H4: Xavier

Preparing to Question Our Assumptions

“Creative Tutorials for Non-traditional, ESL Students”

Laura Bokus, Coldwell Community College and Technical Institute

“Communities and Conflicts: A Case Study of Competing Interests in Portfolio Grading”

Benjamin Miller, Columbia University

“Literacy and the Teaching of Writing: Reading Readiness is All”

Alice Horning, Oakland University

“The "First-Year" Assessment: Goals, Evaluative Criteria, and Student Products”

Roy Stamper, North Carolina State University

H5: Cavetto

Difference and Inequality: Building the Necessary Institutional Structures

Jennifer deWinter, University of Arizona

Daniel Griffin, University of Arizona

Jason Thompson, University of Arizona

H6: Sand Lotus

What’s Rhetoric Got to Do With It?

Thomas Miller, University of Arizona

Jillian Skeffington, University of Arizona

Star Madzerian, University of Arizona

H7: Campanile

Relevance: Understanding WPA Work in a Rapidly Changing World

“Online: The New Frontier, or Just Another Hoax?”

Jamie Thornton, Texas Christian University

“Getting Ready and Being Relevant: Can Writing Programs Prepare for LD

Students?”

Sharon James McGee, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

“The Millennials Come to Comp”

Christopher Strelluf, University of Missouri Columbia

“What You Need to Know to Prepare Graduate Students and New Teachers to Work with Returning Adult Students”

Michelle Navarre Cleary, DePaul University

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