Council of Writing Program Administrators

Assistant Professor, Computers and Writing

Tenure-track position in composition and rhetoric with an emphasis in computers and writing beginning in Fall 2009. We are seeking a colleague who values teaching, research, and service, and who is interested in joining a dynamic department which includes an active group of composition and rhetoric faculty in a nationally recognized writing program. Expertise in some combination of the following: new media writing, web 2.0 writing technologies, online and computer-mediated pedagogy, technical writing, digital rhetorics, and

REFLECTIONS: A Journal of Writing, Community Literacy, and Service Learning http://reflections.syr.edu

Call for Papers

Bridging the Gap: Emergent Scholars, Emergent Forms of Scholarship (On-line Edition)

The WPA Annual Conference in Your Backyard!

The WPA Executive Board is soliciting proposals to host the WPA Summer Conference, Workshops, and Institutes in 2010 and 2011.

As regular WPA attendees know, the WPA Summer Conference, Workshop and Institutes are sponsored by one or more institutions and hosted by local WPAs, members of the Executive Board, and the WPA at large. This is a terrific opportunity to be active in WPA, to build working relationships with WPAs in your area and to showcase your academic institution and home area.

September 2007 Call for Nominations for WPA Executive Board

WPA will hold elections for three Executive Board members this fall.

Executive Board members election:

Tenure track position in composition and rhetoric starting Fall 2007. We are looking for a faculty member who values teaching, research, and service to join a dynamic department and an active group of composition/rhetoric faculty in a nationally recognized writing program. We seek expertise in some combination of the following: writing program administration, first year writing, and writing and technology. Responsibilities will include administration or co-administration of the First Year Writing Program (with commensurate reassigned time), and some teaching in FYC and/or upper-level or graduate courses in Written Communication. Teaching excellence, scholarly

The WPA Network for Media Action (WPA-NMA) is WPA's effort to change conversations about and representations of writers and writing in mainstream media. Join the listserv to exchange information, responses, and strategies. To subscribe, go to:

https://list.emich.edu/mailman/listinfo/nma

Check out the NMA link in Digital WPA (wpacouncil.org/nma) for position statements and tips for writing to mainstream media, as well!

Here's the letter I sent (via e-mail) to David Brooks at the Times in response to his column:

Dear Mr. Brooks: I am a teacher of first-year writing (aka freshman comp) and of teachers who teach first-year writing. I’d like to invite you to learn more about how composition instructors at my institution -- in fact, at many institutions around the country -- are working to address the growing inequality that you discuss in your column of 25 September.

I teach at Eastern Michigan University, a school of about 25,000 students located 45 miles west of Detroit. Many of our students come from the “bottom half”to which you refer. For these students, as others, a college degree is increasingly necessary to be considered a legitimate participant in American civic life.

Wow! Check out the last paragraph of this story - a great invitation for WPA-NMAers to respond!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2005-05-04-sat-writing_x.htm

In case people missed it, here's a link to Dennis Baron's post to WPA-L that includes the column he wrote on the new SAT writing exam for the Chronicle of Higher Ed.: http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0505&L=wpa-l&P=R1078&I=-3

The media update forum is for media monitors and media responders to post what they're seeing or hearing and/or doing to respond to stories about writers and writing in mainstream media.

If you have an update, post it here! Let us know what you saw and/or heard and where, and whether you plan to respond to it.

If you've responded to a news story, let us know the focus of the story and what you did to respond. If possible, please also include a copy of your response so that others can see how you addressed the issue.