WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include writing faculty education, training, and professional development; writing program creation and design, the development of rhetoric and writing curricula; writing assessment within programmatic contexts advocacy and institutional critique and change; writing programs and their extra-institutional relationships with writing's publics; technology and the delivery of writing instruction within programmatic contexts; WPA and writing program histories and contexts; WAC / ECAC / WID and their intersections with writing programs; the theory and philosophy of writing program administration issues of professional advancement and WPA work; and projects that enhance WPA work with diverse stakeholders. CONTENTS OF WPA 49.1 (FAll 2025): From the Editors: Something Different: Hope by Tracy Ann Morse, Patti Poblete, Wendy Sharer, and Kelly Moreland SYMPOSIUM: WPAING IN A TIME OF BACKLASH-STORIES AND STRATEGIES: Introduction by Kelly Moreland, Tracy Ann Morse, Patti Poblete, and Wendy Sharer Do Not Obey in Advance: Countering the Chilling Effects of Anti-DEI Legislation by Gavin P. Johnson Leading Through Legislative Overreach in Utah by Charles McMartin When DEI Isn't Banned but Undone by Anonymous Finding Our People: Coalition, Collaboration, and Community as Persistence by Kat M. Gray, LewEllyn Hallett, Megan McIntyre, and Maggie Fernandes Quiet Persistence: Writing Center Leadership Amid DEI Backlash by Carey Smitherman Clark Making Space for the "Fleshy Presence" Institutional Embodiment and the Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) by Practicum by Callie F. Kostelich and Alison Wells Speaking Truth in Hostile Times: Strategies for Writing Program Administration under Restrictive Legislation by Renae Frey "Becoming Antiracist" in the Time of DEI Backlash: Redefining FYC at a Hispanic-Serving Institution by Scott Gage Habits of Mind to Keep Us Going: Some Thoughts and Strategies from a BIPOC WPA by David T. Johnson Requiem for a Composition Program by Beth Buyserie I Dissent: Teaching in Interesting Times by Natalie M. Dorfeld Articulating Values Toward Action: Communicating Program Values in a Time of Backlash to Guide by Teacher Support at the "Most Racially Diverse" University in Michigan by Adrienne Jankens and Nicole Guinot Varty Preparing for Backlash with a Crisis Communication Plan by Ashley Patriarca ESSAYS: Working Toward Fairness in Program-Wide Tools: A Collaborative, Locally Grounded, Flexible, and Descriptive Assessment Heuristic for First-Year Writing by Mary K. Stewart From Gatekeeper to Informant: The Roles of Academic Advisors in Aligning Directed Self-Placement by Theresa Tinkle, Michelle Sprouse, Jason Godfrey, Andrew Moos, and Laura Romaine Beyond Appendices: Equity and Directed Self-Placement by Amy Vidali and Sarah Michals A Pre-Pandemic Snapshot of a Culture of (in)Access: Accommodation Statements in the Document Ecology of the First-Year Writing Programs in Michigan by Vee Kennedy REVIEWS: Updated Culturally Conscious and Active Learning Professional Development Texts for Busy Faculty by Zoe McDonald Review of Reconstructing Response to Student Writing: A National Study from Across the Curriculum by Dan Melzer, reviewed by Kelly Blewett
