Category: CFP

CarolinasWPA Meeting in the Middle CFP

Friday, February 17, 2017

10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

UNC Charlotte Center City Building
320 E. 9th Street, Charlotte, NC 28202

Theme: Advocacy in Classrooms, Programs, Research, and Beyond

*Proposal deadline: Friday, February 3, 2017

 

Carolinas Writing Program Administrators is accepting proposals for its Eleventh Annual Spring Conference, Meeting in the Middle.

 

Teaching and program administration is always work in progress. We constantly alter our own classroom practices, reshape our programs, and revise our research. In so doing, we must advocate for ourselves and for others, and our social justice mission is rarely far from our minds. Much of the advocacy we do stays within our institutional contexts such as when we try different teaching approaches, or argue for program resources or equitable labor practices. Past Carolinas WPA speakers John Warner (Wildacres 2015) and Doug Hesse (Wildacres 2013) encourage us also to go public in our advocacy efforts. Our national body, the Council of Writing Program Administrators, urges us to see advocacy as particularly necessary to focus on right now, as evident in their recent call for conference proposals on the theme of agency and advocacy in an age of austerity. This dovetails well with the focus Michelle LaFrance brought to us at Wildacres 2016.

 

At this year’s Meeting in the Middle, we check in with each other on those efforts. We lift up the work each of us is doing that explores classrooms and writing programs as sites of advocacy. And we offer concrete activities to move that work forward.

 

So what are you working on now? And how can MinM help you meet your goals for advancing your own advocacy-centered projects?

 

Please respond with a brief Work-in-Progress Presentation (WiPP) proposal. You are entirely welcome to attend MinM without presenting, but those who declare what they are working on in advance will be listed on the formal agenda, which may help with self-advocating for travel funding.

 

Your proposals also help us plan appropriate interest groups and design workshop activities around your goals.

 

Possible topic starters:

  • Self-advocacy: What acts of self-determination are you taking in your professional life?
  • Advocacy in teaching: What teaching practices are you developing as acts of advocacy?  Or how are you positioning students to become advocates?
  • Program advocacy: What and how are you advocating for your program(s)? For faculty in your programs?  For students in your programs?
  • Advocacy in research:  How is your research an advocacy practice? For what, for whom?
  • Advocating in the public sphere: What are you writing for audiences beyond our disciplinary colleagues? What are you advocating?
  • Needed advocacy: What do you wish your department or CarWPA or our national organizations would do differently – or more emphatically –  to act as advocates for _____? If you were writing a call to action on this issue, what would it include?

 

Possible goals for work-in-progress presenters:

  • Seek and share self-advocacy methods
  • Refine a teaching project
  • Strengthen a plan for program advocacy
  • Improve an IRB proposal
  • Get feedback on an article draft – whether for a scholarly or public audience
  • Rehearse for 4Cs
  • Develop a CWPA proposal. (Maybe even find other panelists.) The proposal deadline is March 1.

 

We welcome creative interpretation of the advocacy theme and goals. This forum is appropriate for work that would benefit from feedback and focused workshop time. CarolinasWPA welcomes individual and team WiPPs at any stage of development and from people working in any teaching or administrative positions related to writing in the Carolinas.

Conference Format

A featured panel on advocacy led by members of CarolinasWPA will be followed by small breakout interest groups and writing activities. Those presenting should prepare for 15-20 minutes to discuss their work-in-progress and seek feedback from those with shared interests.

Proposals

Each proposal should be 250 – 500 words including the following:

  • Names and contact information (email, phone, home institution) for each person associated with your proposal
  • A presentation title
  • A description of the pertinent topic
  • Your specific goals for presenting work-in-progress at MinM
  • Questions for interest group attendees that will help you elicit feedback relevant to your goals.

Submit it via email to Collie Fulford (cfulfor1@nccu.edu) and Tracy Ann Morse (morset@ecu.edu) by noon Friday, February 3, 2017, using the subject line “MinM Proposal yourlastname.”

 

Questions or Comments? – Contact Collie Fulford at cfulfor1@nccu.edu.

Fall Conference CFP and Registration

13th Annual Fall Conference 

Registration is Open!

September 12 – 14, 2016 | Wildacres Retreat Center, Little Switzerland, NC (Directions)

Call for Proposals – “Taking Action in the Carolinas”

*Proposal deadline: Wednesday, August 31, 2016

 

Carolinas Writing Program of Administrators is accepting proposals for its Thirteenth Annual Fall Conference at Wildacres.

 

Conference Theme and Design. This year we focus on ways we can take action—as instructors, WPAs, advocates for students, etc. We encourage proposals that once again focus on ways we are responding to working conditions at a state, regional, or local level; however, we are especially interested in proposals that share ways change is happening within these contexts. Projects in different stages—from manuscript-ready to collected raw data to seeds of ideas—are welcome. We ask that you identify how you will engage your Wildacres audience in helping you advance this project. Be prepared to discuss your work without AV equipment (Internet is very limited and we may not have access to projectors).

 

We will organize small breakout groups based on proposals so those presenting can work through their questions with attendees. Michelle LaFrance from George Mason University will provide a brief keynote address and facilitate a writing workshop that helps us to further consider ways we can take action.

 

Conference Schedule and Format. The format of the conference will encourage full engagement of participants from a broad variety of institutions and programs. We will mix small, working group discussions with larger presentations/conversations about the work we do and the conditions of that work. Proposals will be accepted pending space.

 

Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator – Michelle LaFrance, George Mason University

Michelle LaFrance (Ph.D., University of Washington, 2009) directs the Writing Across the Curriculum program and teaches courses on writing, composition pedagogy, Writing Studies and research methodologies. Michelle has published on institutional ethnography, e-portfolios, e-research, and writing center pedagogy. Her latest publications explore the relationships between institutional discourse and the material conditions of teaching, especially how the work/teaching practices of staff and faculty in writing programs take shape.

 

The conference will begin at 5:00 pm on Monday, September 12, and will conclude at 10:00 am on Wednesday, September 14.

 

Proposals. We invite proposals from individuals or groups from schools across the Carolinas. Each proposal should be no more than 700 words and should contain the following:

  • One paragraph that describes a project you are currently working on or one you envision
  • One paragraph about your intended audience
  • A sentence or two about how the writing workshop might advance your project.

 

Provide the names and contact information (email, phone, professional affiliation) for each person associated with your proposal. Be sure to title your proposal and submit it via email to Tracy Ann Morse (morset@ecu.edu) and Collie Fulford (cfulfor1@nccu.edu) by Wednesday, August 31, 2016.

 

Titles and authors of accepted proposals will be included on the conference schedule as formal presentations or contributions. We hope this will open up travel funding from the institutions for all presenters. NOTE: You do not need to present to attend the conference, but if presenting will help you secure funding, we hope you will consider submitting a proposal either individually or with colleagues from your institution or other institutions.

 

Registration and Cost. The registration price of $185.00 includes lodging and five meals at Wildacres, as well as all conference materials. Registration is open. The registration deadline is September 5 with no refunds after September 2. Prior to September 2, you may cancel and receive a full refund.

 

Questions or Comments? Contact Tracy Ann Morse at morset@ecu.edu.

Call  for  Proposals: Defining,  Locating,  and  Addressing  Bullying  in  the  WPA  Workplace

Editors:

Dr.  Cristyn  L.  Elder,  University  of  New  Mexico

Dr.  Bethany  Davila,  University  of  New  Mexico

 

Given  the  prevalence  of  workplace  bullying  and  the  often  unique  and/or   vulnerable  position  of  WPAs  (e.g.,  untenured  WPAs;  WPAs  who  have  high campus   visibility  but  lack  the  power  to  make  hiring/firing/budget  decisions;  WPAs  in   literature  departments,  etc.),  it  is  important  to  dedicate resources  to  defining   behaviors  and  patterns  of  bullying  and  offer  specific  strategies  for  agentive   responses.  Much  of  WPA  literature  has  addressed issues  of  power  associated  with   WPA  work  (e.g.,  Dew  and  Horning;  George;  Mountford;  Pauliny;  Strickland  and   Gunner;  Schell;  White).  However, workplace  bullying  has  not  yet  received  focused   attention  in  WPA  scholarship.  In  The  Promise  and  Perils  of  Writing  Program   Administration  (2008), Skeffington,  Borrowman,  and  Enos  begin  the  collection  by   listing  the  questions  they  did  not  ask  in  “a  Web  survey  of  WPAs”  (p.  8),  including,  as   the authors  note,  the  most  important,  yet  implicit,  question—“are  you  okay?”—  a   question  to  which  “many  junior  faculty  with  administrative  duties cannot respond   positively  on  either  a  personal  or  professional  level”  (p.  9).  Despite  the   acknowledgment  of  the  challenges  WPAs  face,  including  either  being bullied  or   seeing  others  bullied,  there  has  yet  to  be  a  collection  that  focuses  on  defining,   locating,  and  addressing  bullying  in  the  WPA  workplace—including  perspectives   from  (non/un)tenured  WPAs,  WPAs  from  underrepresented  social  groups,  WPAs   for  whom  English  is  not  their  native language, and  WPAs  responding  to  the  bullying   of  others  (e.g.,  students,  staff,  faculty,  etc.).  This,  we  believe,  is  an  oversight  that   leaves  workplace  bullying largely  unnamed  and  undertheorized,  forcing  WPAs  into   the  vulnerable  position  of  having  to  seek  out  resources  and  advice  on  their  own  or   to  read between  the  lines  of  what  has  been  published.

 

 

Leah  Hollis,  Ed.D,  (2012)  estimates  the  incidence  of  workplace  bullying  in   higher  education  to  be approximately  62%  (p.  36).  In  contrast  to  the  lack of  direct   attention  it  has  received  within  WPA  scholarship,  workplace  bullying  has  been  a   topic  of increasing  importance  in  higher  education,  with articles  ranging  from   reporting  on  incidents  of  bullying  (DeFrancesco,  2015;  Wilson,  2010)  to describing   anti-­‐bullying  policies  (Flaherty,  2014).

 

 

Additionally,  according  to  other  scholarship   on  workplace  bullying,  “there  is  growing  evidence suggesting  that  minority  status   could  be  a  contributing factor  to  receiving  differential  treatment  in  the  workplace”   (Lewis,  Giga,  and  Hoel,  2010,  p. 271).  As  such,  the  issue  of  workplace  bullying  is  an   issue of  social  justice,  as  minority  and  disenfranchised  WPAs  may  be  silenced  or   excluded through  these  practices.     For  the  above  reasons,  the  editors  of this  collection  invite  chapter  proposals  for   theoretical  essays,  empirical  research, narratives,  practice-­‐oriented  papers,  book   reviews,  action  research and  reflective  essays.  Proposals  are  welcome  on  (but  not   limited  to)  the  following topics:

 

 

Definitions  of  Bullying  in  the  WPA  Workplace:  

  • What  is  workplace  bullying/harassment  in  the  WPA  workplace?  How  is  it   operationalized?
  • What  is  cyberbullying  in  the  WPA  workplace?  How  is  it  operationalized?
  • What  are  the  various  ways  bullying  is  experienced  by  teachers?   administrators?  graduate  students?  undergraduate  students?  international   students?  international  faculty?  multilingual  writers?  non-­‐traditional   students?  women?  men?  people  of  color?  members  of  the  LGBTQ   community?  others?
  • How  is  workplace  bullying/harassment  identified  and  measured?
  • What  are  the  risk  factors  for  bullying  and/or  harassment?
  • What  are  the  costs  of  bullying?

 

 

Locations  of  Bullying:  

  • How  is  bullying/harassment  experienced  or  perpetrated  by  stakeholders   within  first-­‐year  composition  programs?  writing  centers?  WAC programs?   undergraduate  programs?  graduate  programs?  departments?  committees?   professional  organizations?  on  the  job  market?  in  different cultural  settings?
  • How  does  workplace  bullying/harassment  overlap  with  working  conditions,   issues  of  a  living  wage,  health  and  safety,  discrimination?

 

 

Effectiveness  of  Bullying  Interventions  and  Programs:

  • What  are  best  practices  for  addressing  workplace  bullies?
  • What  are  best  practices  for  addressing  those  who  have  been  bullied?
  • How  do  we  cope  with/respond  to  workplace  ill-­‐treatment  of  ourselves?  of   others?
  • What  are  prevention  and  intervention  issues  related  to  bullying  and   harassment?
  • How  do  we  promote,  build,  and  maintain  healthy  workplaces  for  all?
  • How  do  we  build  bullying  prevention  into  our  WPA  preparation  programs?
  • What  environmental  and  cultural  changes  might  help  to  reduce  bullying  and   harassment?
  • What  programmatic  and/or  policy  changes  might  help  to  reduce  bullying  and   harassment?
  • How  might  we  further  advance  our  understanding  of  preventing  and   managing  workplace  bullying  and  harassment?

 

 

Proposals should be sent as an email attachment to both editors and should include a title, name(s) of author(s), and a 500-word statement of topic, argument, method, and description of chapter organization and development. Chapters will be approximately 1520 pages in length.

 

 

Prospective contributors may send proposals or queries to the editors at celder@unm.edu and bdavila@unm.edu.

 

 

Proposals due: October 26, 2015

Conditional acceptances: December 15, 2015

Manuscripts due: April 15, 2016

Call for Proposals – Labor of Learning: WPA Concerns for Working Conditions

September 14 – 16, 2015 | Wildacres Retreat Center, Little Switzerland, NC (Directions)

*Proposal deadline: Monday, August 31, 2015

Carolinas Writing Program of Administrators is accepting proposals for its Twelfth Annual Fall Conference at Wildacres.

Conference Theme and Design

This year we focus on labor and working conditions that impact WPAs and Writing Programs. We encourage proposals that focus on ways we are responding to working conditions at a state, regional, or local level. Projects in different stages—from manuscript-ready to collected raw data to seeds of ideas—are welcome. We ask that you identify how you will engage your Wildacres audience in helping you advance this project. Be prepared to discuss your work without AV equipment (Internet is very limited and we may not have access to projectors).

We will organize small breakout groups based on proposals so those presenting can work through their questions with attendees. John Warner from College of Charleston will provide a brief keynote address and facilitate a writing workshop that helps us to further consider the labor of writing program administration.

Conference Schedule and Format

The format of the conference will encourage full engagement of participants from a broad variety of institutions and programs. We will mix small, working group discussions with larger presentations/conversations about the work we do and the conditions of that work. Proposals will be accepted pending space.

Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator

John Warner, College of Charleston

John Warner has worked as contingent faculty for fifteen years, teaching writing and literature at the University of Illinois, Virginia Tech, Clemson, and now, the College of Charleston. Since 2012 he has written the Just Visiting blog at Inside Higher Ed, frequently covering issues of labor and pedagogy inside the writing classroom, and advocating for improved equity for non-tenure-track faculty. He is the author of two works of fiction, the short story collection, Tough Day for the Army, and a novel, The Funny Man, as well as three other books, including the bestselling political satire, My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook of George W. Bush. Since 2003 he has served in an editorial capacity with McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, first as editor in chief and now, editor at large. John also writes a weekly column forPrinters Row, the book supplement for the Chicago Tribune, and is an occasional contributor to Salon, Slate, and The Daily Beast, among other online outlets. A Chicago-area native, he lives in Mt. Pleasant, SC with his wife Kathy and their dogs, Oscar and Truman.

The conference will begin at 5:00 pm on Monday, September 14, and will conclude at 10:00 am on Wednesday, September 16.

Proposals

We invite proposals from individuals or groups from schools across the Carolinas. Each proposal should be no more than 700 words and should contain the following:

  • One paragraph that describes a project you are currently working on or one you envision
  • One paragraph about your intended audience
  • A sentence or two about how the writing workshop might advance your project.

Provide the names and contact information (email, phone, professional affiliation) for each person associated with your proposal. Be sure to title your proposal and submit it via email to Tracy Ann Morse (morset@ecu.edu) and Collie Fulford (cfulfor1@nccu.edu) by Monday, August 31, 2015.

Titles and authors of accepted proposals will be included on the conference schedule as formal presentations or contributions. We hope this will open up travel funding from the institutions for all presenters.

NOTE: You do not need to present to attend the conference, but if presenting will help you secure funding, we hope you will consider submitting a proposal either individually or with colleagues from your institution.

Registration and Cost

The registration price of $185.00 includes lodging and five meals at Wildacres, as well as all conference materials. Registration is open. The registration deadline is September 11 with no refunds after September 7. Prior to September 7, you may cancel and receive a full refund.

Questions or Comments? Contact Tracy Ann Morse at morset@ecu.edu.

WPAs in Transition

Call for Proposals: WPAs in Transition

Courtney Adams Wooten, Jacob Babb, and Brian Ray, eds.

 

We seek proposals for an edited collection about WPAs transitioning into and out of administrative positions. Although scholarship has focused on a variety of WPA concerns – including assessment, identity, labor, faculty development, graduate education, and many other issues – the field has yet to turn its attention to WPAs during the times when they enter or leave a position. WPA positions typically represent a sort of transition between faculty or staff and administrative roles, but we are focusing on the particularly unstable moments of transition into and out of such positions. The editors have experienced how transitions into and out of such positions can be particularly fraught as WPAs and others in or linked to the program try to adjust to such changes. Building on the narrative structure used in Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers, and Troubadours, this collection will provide portraits of WPAs in transition and contain starting points for considering how WPAs can best work through such often-difficult time periods.

 

We seek proposals from many kinds of WPAs, including first-year writing program administrators, writing across the curriculum administrators, and writing center administrators; from different types of positions, such as directors, assistant or associate directors, and graduate directors; and from people in different stages of their careers and at different types of institutions. Such variety speaks to the many kinds of transitions into and out of writing programs that those in our field experience and that become part of their professional identities. Proposals that focus on narratives of transitions as the basis for theoretical or practical propositions are particularly desired.

 

Possible topics could include (but are not limited to):

  • Links between WPA transitions and theoretical frameworks, including leadership transitions scholarship, queer theory, feminist theory, or postcolonial theory
  • Aspects of decisions to enter into or leave administrative positions (economic, curricular, personal, etc.)
  • Real or perceived effects of transitions on various people involved (other administrators on campus, instructors, students, the community, families, etc.)
  • Transitions between different types of programs or positions
  • Transitions into first administrative positions
  • Transitions out of final administrative positions

 

Proposals of 500 words should be submitted by January 31, 2014; include contact information and academic affiliation. Conditional acceptances will then be given by March 30, 2015, and complete essays of 15-20 pages solicited. Acceptance into the collection will be based on these drafts, which are due July 1, 2015.

 

Proposals Due: January 31, 2015
Conditional Acceptances: March 30, 2015

First Complete Draft due: July 1, 2015

Revised Drafts Due: October 1, 2015

Collection Submitted to Publisher: November 1, 2015

 

Prospective contributors may send proposals or queries to wpatransitions@gmail.com.

11th Annual Fall Conference – Publishing What We Do: The WPA as Researcher

Mark your calendars!

September 15-17, 2014 | Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC (Directions) | $185 (includes 2 nights lodging and 5 meals)

 

*Proposal deadline: Monday, August 25, 2014

 

CarolinasWPA at Wildacres
Photo by Kerri Bright Flinchbaugh

Conference Theme and Design
Carolinas Writing Program of Administrators is accepting proposals for its Eleventh Annual Fall Conference at Wildacres. This year, we want to celebrate the research we do as WPA’s. We encourage proposals that allow participants to present their research in different stages—from manuscript-ready to collected raw data to seeds of ideas—and that will lead to discussion about future directions that work might take. We also encourage proposals that focus on balancing a research agenda with the demands of being a WPA. As part of the conference, David Blakesley from Clemson University will provide a brief keynote and facilitate a workshop to help us consider the work we do as research by illustrating the various avenues, methods, and methodologies of publishing. In addition, time will be allotted for small group discussion so those presenting can work through their questions with attendees.

 

Conference Schedule and Format
The conference will begin at 5:00 pm on Monday, September 15, and will conclude at 10:00 am on Wednesday, September 17.

 

The format of the conference will encourage full engagement of participants from a broad variety of institutions and programs. We will mix small, working group discussions with larger presentations/conversations about who we are as writers, researchers, and WPA’s. Proposals will be accepted pending space.

 

Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator

David Blakesley, Clemson University

David Blakesley is the Robert S. Campbell Chair in Technical Communication and Professor of English at Clemson University, where he also serves as the Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees. He is the publisher and founder of Parlor Press (http://www.parlorpress.com), now in its twelfth year. Two Parlor Press books have won the Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators, including the award this year for GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century by Colin Charlton, Jonikka Charlton, Tarez Samra Graban, Kathleen J. Ryan, and Amy Ferdinandt Stolley. In 2014, he became an Adobe Education Leader. Prior to joining Clemson, he served as the WPA for Purdue University’s Professional Writing Program for ten years, and, prior to Purdue, as Director of Writing Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

 

He has authored, co-authored or edited six books, including The Elements of Dramatism (Longman), The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film (SIUP), and Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age (Cengage). His articles have appeared in WPA: Writing Program Administration, JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Composition Studies, The Writing Instructor, First Monday, Kairos, and numerous other journals and anthologies. He is also a recipient of the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field from Computers and Composition and the Distinguished Service Award from the Kenneth Burke Society.

 

Proposals
We invite proposals from individuals or groups from schools across the Carolinas. Each proposal should be no more than 700 words and should contain the following:

* One paragraph that describes a research project you are currently working on or one you envision

* One paragraph about your intended audience

* A sentence or two about how the research writing workshop might advance your project to submission

 

Provide the names and contact information (email, phone, professional affiliation) for each person associated with your proposal. Be sure to title your proposal and submit it via email to Anthony T. Atkins (atkinsa@uncw.edu) and Tracy A. Morse (morset@ecu.edu) by Monday, August 25, 2014.

Titles and authors of accepted proposals will be included on the conference schedule as formal presentations or contributions. We hope this will open up travel funding for all participants. NOTE: You do not need to present to attend the conference, but if presenting will help you secure funding, we hope you will consider submitting a proposal either individually or with colleagues from your institution.

 

Registration and Cost
Registration Fee: the fee of $185 includes 2 nights’ lodging and 5 meals at Wildacres, as well as all conference materials.

The registration deadline is Friday, September 5, 2015 with no refunds after Monday, September 8.

 

 

Questions or Comments? – Contact Anthony T. Atkins at atkinsa@uncw.edu and Tracy A. Morse at morset@ecu.edu

Call for Proposals: Fall Carolinas WPA Conference at Wildacres

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Carolinas WPA

 

Making Connections: The WPA as Worker, Writer, and Scholar

 

September 16-18, 2013 | Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC (Directions)

 

*Proposal deadline: Monday, August 26, 2013

 

Conference Theme and Design– The Carolinas Council of Writing Program Administrators will hold its annual fall gathering at Wildacres Retreat Center celebrating our 10th Anniversary of Affiliate Status. While the group met before earning affiliate status, we find this the occasion to celebrate! Come and celebrate with us the change of seasons and the sustainability of the Carolinas Writing Program Administrators with Featured Speaker Doug Hesse who will provide a keynote address and facilitate a writing workshop.

 

This year we want to celebrate the work that we do as WPAs. We invite proposals that consider the writing, service, and work that we do. How do you represent that work in your scholarship? Facilitated by Doug Hesse, we plan to conduct a writing workshop that helps us as researchers and scholars to consider all of the work that we do and how we write and research about that work.

 

Conference Schedule and Format– The format of the conference will encourage full engagement of participants from a broad variety of institutions and programs. We will mix small, working group discussions with larger presentations/conversations about who we are as writers, researchers, and WPAs.

 

Featured Speaker

Doug Hesse: “Writers or Administrators?  Writerly Identities v. Bureaucratic Gravities.”

 

This talk will include an exploration of three kinds of core identities for WPAs: writer, scholar, and administrator.  These certainly can and do overlap, and to assert that any one of them predominates in a WPA’s work (or in the orientation of the field of WPA work) is to risk a false trinary. We are in an historical moment in which the administrative identity threatens to swallow the others, with detrimental effect.  Much of this is due to strong forces in higher education and beyond, and some of it, to the professionalization of the WPA position. Hesse will make a case for countervailing writerly identities that complicate and enrich administrative roles, roles certainly vital but also dangerously beguiling.

 

The conference will begin at 5:00 pm on Monday, September 16, and will conclude at 10:00 am on Wednesday, September 18.

 

Proposals – We invite proposals from individuals or groups from schools across the Carolinas. Each proposal should be no more than 500 words and should contain the following:

  • One paragraph that describes your project
  • One paragraph about your intended audience or publication/presentation venue
  • A sentence or two about how the writing workshop might advance your project

 

Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis pending space. Provide the names and contact information (email, phone, professional affiliation) for each person associated with your proposal. Be sure to title your proposal and submit it via email to Lynne Rhodes (lynner@usca.edu) and Anthony T. Atkins (atkinsa@uncw.edu) by Monday, August 26, 2013.

 

Titles and authors of accepted proposals will be included on the conference schedule as formal presentations or contributions. We hope this will open up travel funding for all participants. NOTE: You do not need to present to attend the conference, but if presenting will help you secure funding, we hope you will consider submitting a proposal either individually or with colleagues from your institution.

 

Registration and Cost – The registration price of $165 includes lodging and 5 meals at Wildacres, as well as all conference materials. The registration deadline is Friday, August 30, 2013, with no refunds after September 7, 2013. Prior to September 7, 2013, you may cancel and receive a full refund.

 

This year while registering for the conference you will have an option to purchase a $10.00 Carolinas WPA 10th Anniversary Commemorative Long-sleeve t-shirt. Be sure to indicate the size shirt you prefer.

 

Questions or Comments? – Contact Lynne Rhodes at lynner@usca.edu or Anthony T. Atkins at atkinsa@uncw.edu. 

CFP: Meeting in the Middle (Proposals due February 8, 2013)

Carolinas WPA Meeting in the Middle

Friday, February 22, 2013

UNC Charlotte’s Center City Campus

Charlotte, NC

10:00am-4:30pm

 

Theme:  Advocacy in Composition Studies

 

Many writing courses are integrating advocacy issues that are important to students, teachers, and their local communities. For instance, some instructors create assignments that ask students to create or develop Facebook pages dedicated to a particular issue, or to create an “advocacy website” that has an impact on viewers or readers so to promote the action advocated. As program administrators and writing instructors, we may consider questions like:

  • Who decides or selects the focus for advocacy?
  • What happens if students select an advocacy approach that may be considered “bad” or unethical?
  • How should advocacy work be evaluated or assessed?
  • How do you coordinate your needs as a teacher, the needs of the students as evolving writers, and the needs of the “clients” with which you and your students work in a class that incorporates advocacy?

 

Request for Proposals

The Carolinas WPA encourages active participation at its conference.  To broaden our theme of advocacy, we are requesting brief proposals that consider the questions above, as well as proposals about activities/projects that can help us advocate for writing instruction and writing programs. In other words, we are looking for proposals that promote and publicize what we do as writing teachers and program directors.

 

If you would like to participate in this conference, please submit a proposal that addresses any area of writing and advocacy.  Please submit a 100-word abstract by Friday, February 8, 2013 to Anthony T. Atkins [atkinsa@uncw.edu].  Be sure to include names of presenters, institutions, and email addresses for participants. As always Carolinas WPA encourages graduate student participation.

 

Conference Outline

We aim for the conference to be interactive.  The morning and afternoon sessions will feature speakers. The afternoon session will also feature round table discussions about advocating college-level writing and the duties of writing program directors. A detailed conference outline is forthcoming and will be posted on the website before the conference begins.

 

As always there will be plenty of time to meet informally with colleagues.

 

 

Registration Fee

$25.00 includes lunch and “break” food.

To increase Carolinas WPA visibility:  Bring a Friend for Free, but you must register your friend when you register yourself.

 

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Proposal Deadline—Friday, February 8, 2013

 

Registration Deadline—Friday, February 15, 2013

 

CFP: Fifth Annual North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing

Building Bridges: Extending the Work of Composition Beyond the Classroom

The Fifth Annual North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing

February 15-16 2013, NC State University

http://go.ncsu.edu/ncwritingsymposium

 

As a field, composition has a rich history of actively engaging with pedagogy. Learning and the work of the classroom are never far from writing instructors’ thoughts, conversations, and research. Institutions of learning have recently had to respond to increasing fiscal constraints and a variety of pressures for reform and restructuring, however, and working conditions for writing instructors have continued to either remain stagnant or deteriorate. In such an academic climate, writing teachers have had many reminders that the world outside our classroom walls and the perceptions of the work going on within them matter a great deal. While it may at times be convenient to be seen as grammarians or academic discourse “coaches” in service of other courses, this misperception can be dangerously confining and reductive for writing teachers, programs, and studies, as our field has much more to offer than the drills and basic formulae these roles imply. And although Louise Wetherbee Phelps and John M. Ackerman’s 2010 CCC report on The Visibility Project is encouraging, the story told through the data collected by The Adjunct Project is much less so. For our fifth symposium, the North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing would like to respond to calls like Doug Hesse’s, at last year’s symposium, for writing teachers to reach beyond their physical and virtual classrooms to participate in the community of their departments, institutions, and discipline, by exploring how writing teachers build bridges—bridges across classrooms, pedagogies, disciplines, institutions, levels, spheres, genres, media, technologies, modes, languages, cultures, time, etc. Proposals for papers and panels about partnership, collaboration, cross-fertilization, and synergy, as well as about dialogue, debate, translation, framing, and compromise are all welcome.

 

Related topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Collaborating with colleagues/students/counterparts/administrators/others;
  • Participating in administration and governance;
  • Communicating between departments, colleges, institutions;
  • Building bridges between faculty/instructors/administration;
  • Advocating for programs/students/faculty;
  • Fostering cross-institutional connections;
  • Building K-16 connections;
  • Connecting through service learning and extension;
  • Communicating the work of composition to external stakeholders;
  • Partnering the academic with professional, public with private;
  • Translating the work of composition to the public sphere;
  • Writing across/through/between disciplines;
  • Developing vertical writing curricula;
  • Engaging with alternative pedagogies/approaches/perspectives;
  • Building bridges through/with technology;
  • Transposing and engaging with alternative genres, modes, and media;
  • Connecting within/without the classroom;
  • Developing bridges between classrooms;
  • Building international, trans-lingual, and trans-cultural bridges;
  • Linking texts, pedagogies, problems, moments.

 

The keynote for this year’s symposium will be Tim Peeples, Professor of English and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at Elon University. While at Elon, Peeples has built many bridges on campus, playing a central role in the creation and administration of numerous programs, centers, and initiatives across campus, including Writing Across the Curriculum, the program in Professional Writing and Rhetoric, the Writing Center, the university’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, and Elon University’s School of Law. A leader in faculty governance and development, Peeples has also been a key figure in increasing the number of tenure-track faculty at Elon. Before coming to Elon, Peeples served in several administrative roles and taught a range of composition and professional writing courses at Northern Arizona, Purdue University, and West Georgia College. He also developed a summer writing program for first-generation Native American engineering students. Read more about Peeples at: http://www.elon.edu/directories/profile/?user=peeples

 

Specific Guidelines for Submission: Individual paper proposals should be 200-300 words in length. Panel submissions should not total more than 1000 words. Panels will be 75 minutes in length, including Q&A. All sessions will be held in rooms with Internet access and projection capabilities. Please indicate any other technology requirements. We encourage participation from all faculty ranks, and we particularly encourage contingent faculty, K-12 faculty, TYC faculty, and graduate student participation.

 

The deadline for proposals is Friday, October 19th.

 

Submit proposals as a Microsoft Word compatible attachment (.doc or .docx) or PDF to: writingsymposium@ncsu.edu. PLEASE INCLUDE ALL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION—TITLE, NAME(S), AFFILIATION(S), AND EMAIL ADDRESS(ES)—IN THE EMAIL. THE ONLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION IN THE PROPOSAL DOCUMENT ITSELF SHOULD BE THE TITLE.

CFP: Tapping Institutional Opportunities (Fall 2012 CarolinasWPA Conference)

Ninth Annual CarolinasWPA Fall 2012 Conference

 

Tapping Institutional Opportunities

 

September 17-19, 2012 | Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC (Directions)

 

*Proposal deadline: Friday, August 24th

 

Conference Theme and Design – The Carolinas Writing Program Administrators will hold its annual fall gathering at Wildacres Retreat Center with occasion for attendees to reflection on a variety of local priorities, providing possibilities for advancing goals associated with local writing programs. Those local priorities might range from QEPs to program collaborations to strategic planning initiatives to any number of other partnerships. We especially invite proposals that focus on ways that regional WPAs have established partnerships among their writing programs.

 

We will also offer time at Wildacres for WPAs who are planning to attend SAMLA in November to meet and discuss, so if you are part of a SAMLA panel, please let us know how much time you would like to have for a planning session.

 

Conference Schedule and Format – The format of the conference will encourage full engagement of participants from a broad variety of institutions and programs. We will mix small, working group discussions with larger presentations about tapping institutional opportunities.

 

The conference will begin at 5:00 pm on Monday, September 17, and will conclude at 10:00 am on Wednesday, September 19.

 

Featured session leaders to be announced.

 

Proposals – We invite proposals from individuals or groups from schools across the Carolinas. Each proposal should be no more than 700 words and should contain the following:

 

Include a description of some local priority that you have as a WPA:

  • Are you presenting as part of the Carolinas SAMLA clusters? If so, what is your focus?
  • Are you working on a QEP, a professional development initiative, or a programmatic collaboration?
  • Are you involved with a strategic planning initiative or a partnership?
  • Can you share any heuristics or programming strategies of interest to other regional WPAs?

 

Provide the names and contact information (email and phone) for each person affiliated with your proposal. Be sure to title your proposal and submit it via email to Lynne Rhodes (lynner@usca.edu) and Tony Atkins (atkinsa@uncw.edu) by Fri., Aug. 24, 2012.

 

Titles and authors of accepted proposals will be included on the conference schedule as formal presentations or contributions. We hope this will open up travel funding for all participants. NOTE: You do not need to present to attend the conference, but if presenting will help you secure funding, we hope you will consider submitting a proposal either individually or with some colleagues from your institution.

 

Registration and Cost – The registration price of $170 includes lodging and 5 meals at Wildacres, as well as all conference materials. Registration will open August 3rd, and registration is due by September 3rd; space is limited, so register early.

 

Questions or Comments? – Contact Lynne Rhodes at lynner@usca.edu or Tony Atkins at atkinsa@uncw.edu.