2025 - 2026 Virtual Events

 

Wed
22
2026
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

Register Here

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.

 

Fri
1
2026
May 1, 2026
2:00PM - 3:30PM EDT

Tell Your Story: Join the Mapping Program Labor Project

Due to a technical issue, this event has been rescheduled to May 1. 

What work do you do as a Chair, Lead, Coordinator, or WPA, and how does this work "count" toward your career as a whole? What does your programmatic labor include? Join this hands-up workshop to start mapping your program labor and to join a group of professionals who are interested in helping to share your story.

  • Facilitators: Joanne Baird Giordano, Stephanie Dowdle Maenhardt, Cassandra Phillips, and Erin Lehman
  • Breakout Room Facilitator: Analeigh Horton
  • Date and time: 5/1, 90 minutes, 2:00-3:30pm ET
  • Meeting platform: Zoom
  • Cost to members: Free for members

Register Here

Fri
8
2026
May 8, 2026
2:00PM - 3:15PM

Introducing the "WPA Statement on the Five Knowledge Domains of First Year Composition"

This session introduces the WPA Outcomes Statement 4.0, officially titled the "WPA Statement on the Five Knowledge Domains of First Year Composition," available now on our website. The statement no longer offers universal learning outcomes for all FYC classes. Instead, 4.0 identifies five knowledge domains central to the course (rhetorical knowledge; conventions and language; critical reading and thinking; material conditions and technologies; and composing processes), as well as three cross-category knowledge domains (accessibility and disability; generative artificial intelligence; and genre), and provides step-by-step support for programs to develop their own learning outcomes. The CWPA Executive Board unanimously approved the statement on March 4, 2026. We offer our deepest thanks to the Task Force co-chairs Antonio Byrd, Al Harahap, and Michelle Bachelor Robinson; and to the task force members Sheila Carter-Tod, Stephanie Kerschbaum, Cruz Medina, Bernice Olivas, Shelley Rodrigo, and Amy Wan.

  • Facilitators: TBA, Kelly Blewett, and Erin Lehman
  • Date and time: 5/8, 75 minutes, 2:00-3:15pm ET
  • Meeting platform: Zoom
  • Cost to members: Free for members, $25 for nonmembers

Register Here

Events