April 22, 2026
3:00PM - 4:30PM EDT

Balancing Administrative Roles and Responsibilities

The administrative labor of WPAs continues to increase, with more responsibilities, and sometimes multiple programs being heaped upon a single individual. This workshop offers guidance on taking stock of your labor, setting priorities, and developing strategic plans for long-term needs and goals.

• Facilitators: Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison and Jeff Dean
• Date and time: 4/22, 90 minutes, 3:00-4:30pm ET
• Meeting platform: Zoom
• Cost to members: Free for members and $25 for nonmembers

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Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison (she/her) is director of the OU Writing Center and associate professor of writing at the University of Oklahoma. From July 2020-July 2025, she also served as the director of the EKG Expository Writing Program, a small, independent first-year writing program offering special-topic courses. In these dual but distinct administrative roles, she managed programmatic concerns including curriculum development, supervising instructors, training and mentoring student tutors, and program assessment. Dr. Morrison’s research and administration interests span writing center theory, mentorship, community-based writing, and Black feminist studies.  She is co-editor of Writing Centers and Racial Justice: A Guidebook for Critical Praxis (2023), and more of her work can be found in publications such as the Writing Center Journal, the Journal of Multimodal Rhetoric and a forthcoming issue WPA: Writing Program Administration. 
 

Jeff Dean works as the Salisbury University Writing Center Coordinator. SU is a regional comprehensive university in the University System of Maryland. Jeff's main responsibilities are supervising and coordinating the non-faculty instructors of first year composition (i.e. graduate teaching assistants and adjuncts), programmatic assessment and data analysis of FYC and the writing center, developing and delivering writing center workshops, and tutoring graduate student writers. Jeff has an MA in rhetoric and composition from Salisbury University. He was previously a Maryland paramedic/firefighter for 16 years. Before graduate school, Jeff's writing background was predominantly in journalism and creative writing.