Council of Writing Program Administrators

The newest volume of Composition Forum is now available online at http://compositionforum.com

This volume features an interview with Gary Olson and three articles focusing on different dimensions of the academic work of writing specialists. CF 20 also includes two Program Profiles describing the first year writing programs at California State University, Fresno and Eastern Michigan University. In addition, Volume 20 contains reviews of three new books in rhetoric and composition.

We hope you will visit the journal, and we welcome your suggestions and comments about this volume.

If you haven't yet registered for WPA 2009, complete this form and send it to Tim Gustafson (address below) or bring with you to the conference. Registration fees must now be paid by check. Thanks!

Tim Gustafson Associate Director, First-Year Writing Program Department of Writing Studies University of Minnesota 150C Wesbrook Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: 612-625-0731 Fax: 612-624-3617

Dickinson State University, a university with record enrollment increases for thirteen consecutive years, invites applications for the position of Director of University Relations. The Director reports to the President, serves on the President’s Cabinet, and is the chief communication officer for the University. The Director designs, communicates and directs a comprehensive marketing and public relations program; develops and executes marketing plans for specific projects; supervises the activities related to the University web site, the University cable access television channel, and the University News Bureau; advises the President on issues related to public affairs and campus communications; oversees campus publications and printing projects; works with the Foundation staff on communications associated with fundraising; and will oversee the development of a plan to archive existing DSU historical documents.

Contest(ed) Writing: Reconceptualizing Literacy Competitions (tentative title for edited collection) Editor: Mary R. Lamb, Clayton State University

WRITING INSTRUCTOR POSITIONS ACADEMIC YEAR 2009-2010

Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville TN

VISITING COMPOSITION INSTRUCTOR / ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: Department of English and Communications

Full-time, nine-month, non-tenure-track, one-year renewable (up to three years) appointment to begin August 1, 2009. One or more positions available.

The Learning Resource Centers (LRC) Department at James Madison University seeks applications and nominations for the position of Director. The appointment is at the rank of tenure track Associate Professor and will begin July 1, 2009.

Writing Program Assistant, Limestone College

Limestone College invites applicants for the position of Writing Program Assistant. This is a full-time, 10-month, renewable staff appointment. The Writing Program Assistant will work closely with the Director of the Writing Center and the program for Achieving Writing Excellence. The successful candidate will assist in the daily administration of the Writing Center, Online Writing Lab, and Achieving Writing Excellence Program (20 hours/week) and teach 2 composition courses per semester.

What can composition historians learn from early twentieth century high school composition programs? What might the methods, classroom projects, and approaches to student texts suggest about how students were prepared to write in high school? Might our innovative practices in college composition have *trickled up* from high schools during the first few decades of the last century?