2024 - 2025 Virtual Events
Fri
10
2025
January 10, 2025
11:00AM - 12:15PM EST
Theme 3: Diversity of Identities and Experiences
A Conversation about the CWPA Cultural Assessment Report
Zoom
This 75-minute conversation will unpack Theme 3 of the 2023 Cultural Assessment Report (pages 13-14). The conversation will involve the opportunity to respond to the theme in writing and discussion.
Fri
21
2025
February 21, 2025
2:00PM - 3:30PM EST
Balancing Administrative Values and Priorities in WPA Roles
A Virtual Workshop
Zoom
This session will offer three stories of WPAs in diverse administrative roles. The speakers will explain how their identities and experiences shape their work as WPAs, including their administrative values, priorities, and visions. Attendees will leave with ideas for how to navigate competing values and constraints and turn values into administrative action.
Facilitators: Hadi Banat, Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison, and Allegra Smith
Fri
14
2025
March 14, 2025
11:00AM - 12:15PM EST
Theme 4: Equity and Implementation
A Conversation about the CWPA Cultural Assessment Report
Zoom
This 75-minute conversation will unpack Theme 4 of the 2023 Cultural Assessment Report (pages 14-17). The conversation will involve the opportunity to respond to the theme in writing and discussion.
Fri
21
2025
March 21, 2025
2:00PM - 3:30PM EST
Generative AI and First-Year Composition
A Virtual Workshop
Zoom
Description to come
Facilitators: Mary Lourdes Silva and Jeanne Law
Fri
25
2025
April 25, 2025
2:00PM - 3:30PM EST
Materiality and Writing Studies: Aligning Labor, Scholarship, and Teaching to Reach All Writers
A Virtual Workshop
Zoom
This workshop will present research from two of the co-facilitators' recent projects, Materiality and Writing Studies: Aligning Labor, Teaching, and Scholarship (NCTE, 2022) and Reaching All Writers: A Pedagogical Guide to the Evolving College Writing Classroom (USUP 2024). The session will build from research on knowledge production, teaching and learning conditions, and threshold concepts to help participants set goals for their own program around inclusive writing classes and programs.
Participants will be asked to reflect on their current teaching and program conditions in the context of national data and disciplinary issues. They will then use guided questions to conduct a program needs assessment and discuss how to translate their findings into action steps for their program and classroom context.
Facilitators: Cassandra Phillips (UW-Milwaukee) and Holly Hassel (Michigan Tech University)
Fri
9
2025
May 9, 2025
11:00AM - 12:15PM EST
Bringing It All Together
A Conversation about the CWPA Cultural Assessment Report
Zoom
This 75-minute conversation will synthesize our yearlong discussion of the 2023 Cultural Assessment Report. We will review what emerged through our discussion of each theme, identify points of dissonance and commonality, and discuss future steps.
Fri
16
2025
May 16, 2025
2:00PM - 3:30PM EST
Mindful Leadership for Writing Program Administrators: Exercising Compassion through(out) Reflection
A Virtual Workshop
Zoom
Have you found yourself wishing you had space to reflect on your administrative work, set priorities, and perhaps just breathe? In the second part of this two-part workshop on mindful leadership, focused on writing program administration, Susan Miller-Cochran will lead participants through a workshop on compassion and reflection.
Facilitators: Susan Miller-Cochran