2026 Summer Workshop

CWPA Workshop for New, Prospective, and Continuing WPAs

Join new, prospective, and continuing national (and perhaps international) colleagues who administer writing programs of all kinds to discuss the theoretical, curricular, and political dimensions of our work. The 2026 CWPA workshop will build on the previous year’s workshop through a focus on navigating social and professional change in equitable ways. Change is a constant that impacts higher education and writing program administration with the consistency of weather. Technology, social policies, social injustice, discrimination, war,  genocide all contribute to campus environment, student dispositions, and critical thought in ways that are difficult to predict, and sometimes difficult to navigate. We will engage in an interactive and dynamic workshop that focuses on the role of social impact on institutional mission to the development of a program profile that embraces and engages student voice, and the recognition of harm as a part of administrative literacies essential to navigating change at the ever-evolving modern institution.  

Join us July 20-22, 2026 in Laramie, Wyoming!

 

Facilitators

Our 2026 facilitators will be Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Spelman College, and Darci Thoune, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse. 

 

Registration Fees: TBA

Registration closes on July 1, 2026
Registration includes
  • Three-day workshop in Laramie, Wyoming
  • Workshop materials
  • Meals*
    • Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday: Breakfast and Lunch
    • Wednesday Dinner
  • A fall 2026 virtual follow-up meeting with workshop facilitators
* Dietary restrictions form will be sent out to participants after registration closes.

Register HERE

Accommodation options

The workshop meetings will be hosted on campus and in-person at University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. 

On-campus accommodation information to come. 

Support from CWPA

If you need a letter from CWPA to support your request for funds to attend the workshop, please reach out to us at elehman4@ivytech.edu. 

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