The next PWPA Meeting will be held at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA on Friday, September 23rd. The meeting will focus on writing-intensive pedagogy and administration. Here is the current schedule for the meeting. In addition to the wonderful PWPA members who will be presenting, we will have Gerald Graff …
PWPA is thrilled to announce the recipients of our 2011 WPA Travel Grants. Not surprisingly, we had a healthy competition for these grants. Thanks to the ad-hoc committee who VERY quickly reviewed these applications so that we could distribute the funds before CWPA. Thanks to Jeanne Rose, Seth Frechie, and …
Friday, May 13, 2011, marked the PWPA’s first annual PWPA Social. Held at Tir Na Nog in Philadelphia, the event was enthusiastically and warmly attended. Guests gathered, talked a little bit of shop, and mostly just connected about our lives in and out of academia. Delicious hors d’oeuvres and spirits made …
This has been the year for blustery days and PWPA meetings. But it doesn’t seem to stop us from getting together and getting some good work done.
Dear Colleagues, You’re invited to attend Penn State Abington’s 2001 Arts and Humanities Divisional Colloquium, a discussion on the importance of writing in all areas of the academy. In “Who Owns Writing? Drafting the Process,” Dr. Rebecca Ingalls and Dr. Karen Nulton from Drexel University will address the value of a …
PHENND/PWPA CONFERENCE: Writing in Service, Writing for Service PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Rolling
On a blustery Fall day, the Philadelphia Writing Program Administrators held its first meeting of the academic year on October 1, 2010, at Cabrini College. Our generous hosts, Michelle Filling (co-chair of the PWPA Executive Committee) and Seth Frechie (chair of the English Department at Cabrini), gave us all a …
