Council of Writing Program Administrators

Hello, Folks -- With our sojourn to Tempe rapidly approaching, Shelley Reid and I, co-chairs of the WPA's APA SIG, wanted to again invite untenured WPAs and interested others to a professional development workshop entitled, "Untenured WPAs as Change Agents: When to Rule, When to Run, When to Hide." (It's tentatively scheduled for the Fri. 2:45-4:15 session.) The workshop will provide a forum for assistant-professor administrators to share experiences an dlearn from each other, while Barry Maid and Rita Malenczyk will serve as our Wise Pragmatist tenured-WPA perspectivists.

I'm not the type to blog, but I'm all signed up for the research institute and the conference (haven't even heard back yet on the fate of our panel proposal) and I just can't contain myself -- I'm hella amped at the thought of Tempe in July.

This was unanticipated.

Folks, In what is becoming an annual tradition :-) that reflects our department's seriousness about developing its rhet/comp faculty, we bring you an announcement for a TT rhet/comp position in the English dept. Along with search committee chair Mark Crane, who follows this list, Bonnie Kyburz and I are happy to answer any questions you have about the position or the institution. The announcement has been posted to the MLA job list and the Chronicle as well. You may also want to know that the college is planning to be a comprehensive regional university three years from now, and that we anticipate this hire will be active in writing program administration (it's a committee effort here).

Cheers -- Doug

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT The Department of English and Literature invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Rhetoric and Composition to begin August 2007. Ph.D. from a regionally

Story out of Columbia, MO: A sociology prof has designed "SAGrader" software to cut down on redundant comments he has to make on student papers. He got NSF funding to develop it. Check out the "sophisticated" feedback the program can give students (after the prof manually programs the program).

Hopefully the below link will work -- it's an AP story linked on Netscape News.

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005050713030001479371...

--Doug