[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 2011 CWPA conference! We hope that the next few days in Baton Rouge 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, “Frameworks for Success,” for several reasons. First, we wanted to acknowledge the recent publication of Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing, collaboratively developed by the Council of Writing Program Administrators, the National Writing Project, and the National Council of Teachers of English. That document has already sparked many engaged conversations among secondary and postsecondary teachers. Second, besides drawing attention to this important document, we hope that the conference theme, in some small way, encourages this year’s conference participants to think broadly about what constitutes success for students, teachers, administrators, programs, institutions, and communities. How can we individually and collectively work to promote many forms of success?
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 Baton Rouge with new levels of excitement about writing program administration.
Duane Roen, CWPA President and Conference Co-Organizer
Linda Adler-Kassner, CWPA Past President and Conference Co-Organizer
Irvin Peckham, Conference Co-Host
Jim McDonald, Conference Co-Host
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[Acknowledgements]
Co-Hosting Universities, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Louisiana State University
Charles Lowe, Web guru and coordinator of all things technological
Irvin Peckham, Local co-chair extraordinaire I
James McDonald, Local co-chair extraordinaire II
Keith Dorwick, Stupendous Web designer
Kelly Kinney, Amazing publishers’ contact
David Riche, Marvelous local contributor
Joseph Janangelo, Timothy Dougherty, Michele Eodice, and Duane Roen, Groovy Mentoring Project motivators
Barbara Heifferon, Legendary local contributor
Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, Fantastic local host
Sarah Liggett, Fabulous local organization leader
Clancy Ratcliffe, Inspirational member of the local team
Kim McDonald, Phenomenal local host
Julie Boyd and Erika Haddon, Wonderful Hilton organization extraordinaires
Lisa Graves, Magnificent LSU outreach
Marie Hendry- Incredible local volunteer
Cristyn Elder and Megan Schoen, Out-of-this-world aficionados of all things WPA-GO
Julie Koontz and Karron Alford, Extraordinary Coordinators from Visit Baton Rouge
We thank Frederick Corey, who is 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 co-hosting universities, who dedicated their time at the tables to help wanderers with questions and maintain a semblance of order
The staff of the Baton Rouge Hilton for helping to set up the conference and meals:
201 Lafayette Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States 70801
Tel: 1-225-344-5866 Fax: 1-225-906-0595
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, Elevator Pitch Contest, Prize donations for WPA-GO raffle, Travel grants for WPA-GO members
Oxford University Press – Partial Sponsorship of Saturday AM break
Pearson – Saturday evening outing at Boutin’s Restaurant
W.W. Norton – Friday evening Cocktail Reception
Hayden-McNeil – Friday evening WPA-GO social event
Waypoint- Swag sponsorship- pens and highlighters
Binghamton University, SUNY- Swag sponsorship- pencils
Utah State University Press- Book donations for WPA-GO raffle
Fountainhead Press- Partial Sponsorship of Saturday PM Break
Conference Planning and CWPA Executive Board
Conference Program Committee: Linda Adler-Kassner, Beth Brunk-Chavez, Denise Comer, Timothy Dougherty, Violet Dutcher, Michele Eodice, Cristyn Elder, Joseph Janangelo, James McDonald, Susan Miller-Cochran, Margaret Munson, Charles Paine, Irvin Peckham, Patti Poblete, David Riche, Duane Roen, Carol Rutz, Megan Schoen, Patti Wojahn
Co- Hosting Institutions: The University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Louisiana State University
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)
Doug Downs, Montana State University (term ends 2012)
Darsie Bowden, DePaul University (term ends 2012)
Charles Paine, University of New Mexico (term ends 2012)
Eileen Ferretti, Kingsborough Community College (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)
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 Editors: Alice Horning, Oakland University; Debra Frank Dew, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Glenn Blalock, Our Lady of the Lake College
WPA-GO: Megan Schoen, Co-Chair, Purdue University
[History of the Conference]
WPA Presidency
Harvey Wiener 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, PN
2011: Baton Rouge, LA
2012: Albuquerque, NM July 15-22
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)
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 (Southern Illinois UP/Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, 2009).
Honorable Mention: The Idea of a Writing Laboratory, by Neal Lerner (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009).
2011 WPA-GO Conference Travel Grant Awardees:
CWPA and WPA-GO wish to thank Bedford/St. Martin’s for their generous support of WPA-related graduate student scholarship through the funding of these travel grants
2011 WPA-GO Conference Travel Grant Awardees:
Elizabeth Chilbert Powers, Florida State University
Benjamin Miller, CUNY
Crystal VanKooten, University of Michigan
Julia Voss, The Ohio State University
Travel Grant Runners- Up:
Lara Smith-Sitton, Georgia State University
Courtney Stanton, Temple University
Nancy A. Benson, University of Rhode Island
Jacob Craig, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Jennifer Dorsey, Saint Louis University
Gabriel Cutrufello, Temple University
[Plenary Address]
July 14: Charles Bazerman, University of California, Santa Barbara:
“You Never Know How American You are Until You Travel”
Charles Bazerman is a professor in the Department of Education at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is interested in the practice and teaching of writing, understood in a socio-historic context. Using socially based theories of genre, activity system, interaction, intertextuality, and cognitive development, he investigates the history of scientific writing, other forms of writing used in advancing technological projects, and the relation of writing to the development of disciplines of knowledge. Charles Bazerman hopes to contribute to our understanding of the importance of writing in all domains of modern life, and also hopes to contribute to the teaching and learning of writing at all levels of schooling, as writing is a major medium of participating in society and developing one's life with the contemporary complex literate world.
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[Plenary Address]
July 15: Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt, Yakima Valley Community College:
“Writing Programs Without Administrators: Frameworks for Successful Writing Programs in the Two-Year College”
Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt is current Chair of TYCA (and formerly TYCA Secretary) and also serves on the CCCC Executive Committee and NCTE Executive Committee as well as a variety of sub-committees on each Executive Committee, including the Dual Credit-Concurrent Enrollment Committee. She is a frequent presenter at regional TYCA conferences, CCCC, and NCTE and a reviewer for TETYC. Calhoon-Dillahunt did her graduate work in Composition and Rhetoric at Washington State University and currently teaches English at Yakima Valley Community College in Washington State. She primarily teaches developmental writing, but also regularly teaches courses in argument, research writing, public speaking, and American literature and has been involved in learning community work. She is a past Writing Center director of the YVCC's Grandview satellite campus and continues to volunteer as a writing consultant since moving to the main Yakima campus three years ago. She is also actively involved in assessment, both writing program assessment at the department-level and institutional assessment. Prior to teaching community college, Carolyn taught at the middle and high school levels.
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July 16: Barbara Cambridge, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis:
“Balance and Boundaries: Legislative Decision Making about Education”
Barbara Cambridge has observed, studied, and sometimes influenced policy decision making as a public school teacher, a university professor, a university administrator, a member of a state higher education commission, an officer of a national higher education association, and a lobbyist for a specialized content association. Having been president of WPA, president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and a commissioner for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Cambridge now serves on the boards of the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation, the Washington Internship Institute, and the Irish National Academy for the Integration of Research and Teaching. Her latest publications emerged from her work with over 200 campuses during 12 years with the Campus Program of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and her work as co-leader of the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research: Campus Progress: Supporting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning; and Electronic Portfolios 2.0: Emergent Research on Implementation and Impact. Cambridge is professor emeriti at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.
P.S. Ask her about her grandson.
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[WPA Workshop]
This event invited new, prospective, and continuing administrators of all varieties of writing programs—including FYC, writing centers, WAC, ESL, and basic writing—for three and a half days of workshopping and conversation to address the theoretical, curricular, and political demands of our work.
Topics discussed were:
· 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
· Researching and Networking as a WPA
· Writing as a WPA
Participants gathered Sunday afternoon, July 10, met daily through Wednesday afternoon, July 13, and were offered the opportunity to consult individually with workshop leaders in the evenings. In the workshop, participants were 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.