WPAs in Transition Navigating Educational Leadership Positions / edited by Courtney Adams Wooten, Jacob Babb, Brian Ray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ray, Brian, 1982- editor.

Babb, Jacob, editor.

Wooten, Courtney Adams, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teacher mobility.

College administrators--Vocational guidance.

College administrators.

Writing centers--Administration.

Writing centers.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"A wide variety of professional and personal perspectives about the costs, benefits, struggles, and triumphs experienced by writing program administrators transitioning into and out of leadership positions. Contributors recount insightful anecdotes and provide a scholarly context in which WPAs can share their experiences"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Travels, transitions, and leadership / Courtney Adams Wooten and Jacob Babb

A state of permanent transition : strategies for surviving in an ever-present marginal space / Karen Keaton Jackson

Suddenly WPA : lessons from an early and unexpected transition / Chris Blankenship

Servers, cooks, and the inadequacy of metaphor / Jennifer Campbell and Richard Colby

'An exercise in cognitive dissonance' : liminal WPA transitions / Talinn Phillips, Paul Shovlin, and Megan Titus

Defining disciplinary at moments of transition : the dappled expertise of the multidisciplinary WPA / Andrea Scott

The joys of WPAhood : embracing interruption in the personal and the professional / Kate Pantelides

Metaphors we work by : new writing center directors' labor and identities / Rebecca Jackson, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, and Nicole I. Caswell

Get offa my lawn! : generational challenges of WPAs in transition / Beth Huber

Processes of administrative (un)becoming : learning to fail while trying to fly / Steven J. Corbett

Re-seeing the WPA skill set : GenAdmins transitioning from WPA to university pedagogical leadership / Amy Rupiper Taggart

'You say goodbye, I say hello' : transitions as two programs consolidate / Letizia Guglielmo and Beth Daniell

Command and collaboration : leading as a new WPA / Laura J. Davies

Integrating approach and ethos : creating a writing center/WAC program through collaborative leadership / Tereza Joy Kramer, Jaquelyn Davis, Holland Enke, and Reyna Olegario

There and back again, sort of : the WPA as literacy broker / Chris Warnick

Revolving doors and settled locks : staying put in an undesirable place / Sarah Stanley

Connection, community, and identity : writing programs and WPAs at the community college / Mark Blaauw-Hara and Cheri Spiegel

Fostering ethical transitions : creating community as writing program administrators / Bradley Smith and Kerri K. Morris

Reconsidering marginalization : one writing center director's perspective / Molly Tetreault

Transitioning from contingent to tenure-track faculty status as a WPA : working toward solidarity and academic labor justice through hybridity / Liliana M. Naydan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607326335

1607326337

OCLC:

1031468880