<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I'm
 pleased to share CWPA 2023 summer conference Call for proposals. Please
 share widely and let me know if you have any questions. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Lilian</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">_______________________</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">


















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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Summer 2023 Conference Call for Proposals<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Palatino">Social Justice WPAing:
Talking the Talk AND Walking the Walk<span></span></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Conference: Sunday July 16 – Tuesday July 18, 2023<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Institutes: Wednesday July 19, 2023<span></span></span></p>

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2023<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 1in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:Palatino">“</span></i><i><span style="font-family:Palatino">Social justice is a communal effort dedicated to
creating and sustaining a fair and equal society in which each person and all
groups are valued and affirmed …. Social justice imperatives also push us to
create a civic space defined by universal education and reason and dedicated to
increasing democratic participation.” <span></span></span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 3.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:Palatino">The John Lewis Institute for Social Justice<span></span></span></i></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">After four turbulent
years that split us apart on many issues and brought us together on others, we
will meet again. We will get together to ponder and contemplate the imprints
these four years have left on us as individuals, on our writing programs, and on
our organization. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">I’ll start
from the last point: our organization. For the past year and a half, the
organization, as represented by its Executive Board and Officers, has engaged
in rigorous “communal effort” to become a more “civic space” for ALL writing
program administrators. We suspended our operations and events and sought
professional guidance to become a more equitable and inclusive professional
organization, as reflected in our documents, regulations, activities, and
practices. We took the numerous calls for social justice seriously, and we
started with ourselves. We know we were not alone, and that so many WPAs have
been walking the social justice walk </span><span style="font-family:Palatino">whether
they talked the talk or preferred to work on the ground silently and
reflectively. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">As we launch
our call for proposals for our first in-person conference in four years, our
hope is to meet to acknowledge, discuss, critique, and inspire the “communal
effort dedicated to creating and sustaining a fair and equitable” classroom,
program, and organization. We will meet again in Reno where we hope to create a
“civic space” of “increasing democratic participation” </span><span style="font-family:Palatino">from all WPAs from all institutional types and at
all academic ranks.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">The conference theme,
“Social Justice WPAing: Talking the Talk AND Walking the Walk” invites and
challenges all WPAs from all types of institutions to think of all the ways we
have done social justice work in all aspects of our administration and
leadership roles. It asks about our commitment to social justice of all
individuals and groups in our programs, especially those whose voice has never
been heard or whose presence hasn’t mattered in our programs in the past. It
encourages us to critique, plan, transform, and reflect. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Below are some thoughts
and questions for both reflection and consideration as you think about your
proposal.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Rasha Diab, Thomas
Ferrel, Beth Godbee, and Neil Sompkins remind us that critique is “an essential
condition to making change” (1). They note that critique should always include
“an action plan” that inspires and initiates the change that critique aims for.
Perhaps you’re still at the critique stage of social justice WPAing. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What recent changes in social
justice scholarship have inspired you to critique your WPA work the most? How?
In which aspects of your administrative work?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What did you choose to
critique in your WPA work?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What methods have you used to
initiate that critique? <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What areas have you found to
be needing the most change and thus the most critique?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What strategies did you use
to entice and invite others to engage in that critique?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What discomforts did you and
others involved in that critique experience throughout the process? <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What are the next steps
following that critique? <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">Were you able to move to
creating “an action plan” for change?<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">One possible action plan
may be curriculum development, revision, and updates that “make room for
nontraditional and/or disadvantaged minority students in the writing classroom”
(Sanchez and Branson, 50).<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What curricular changes have
you made or proposed to make in your program?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">How did you negotiate those
changes? <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What obstacles have you
encountered to make those changes possible?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">How do you envision these
changes will nurture equity and inclusion of minority and disadvantaged
students in the writing classroom in your program?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">Have these changes mandated
adopting different and more equitable assessment practices? What conversations
have you had around these issues?<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Successful and meaningful
social justice work is transformative. It contributes meaningfully to the
community members or the individuals with whom we work: students, full- and
part-time faculty, graduate students, community members. This is the ultimate goal
of the “action plan” Diab et al. challenge us to pursue. They acknowledge that
change “requires new stories, new ways of collaborating, and new ways of
living” because critique doesn’t have the power to change much at our
institutions or communities (2).<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What new ways of doing your
WPA work were inspired by your social justice WPAing? Curriculum revisions and
updates? Different professional development approaches and programs?
Collaborations with other members of the program/department? Collaborations
with other units across your campus? Collaborations with community partners?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">How did your social justice
WPAing transform the lives of stakeholders in your program: students, faculty,
graduate students?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What new stories have emerged
from your social justice WPAing? <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">How did you amplify and
celebrate those stories? <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">Who was featured in those
stories? <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Successful and meaningful
social-justice work does not rely on labor from minority and marginalized
colleagues or community members. Any contribution from those individuals or
communities should be “recognized, valued, and compensated” (Jones, Gonzales,
and Haas 33). <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">Who did you recognize and
value in your social justice WPAing work? <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">How did you demonstrate your
recognition of them?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">How did they respond to that
recognition? <span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">Have graduate
programs changed their training of gWPAs to be more equitable and inclusive and
less exploitative? How?</span><span></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">How have gWPAs
responded to those changes?</span><span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">Have mentoring practices of
graduate students changed to include traditionally under-served and
under-recognized graduate students (BIPOC, queer, neurodiverse, differently
abled, older, parents, care-givers)?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What other ways can WPAs
recognize and value minority individuals and/or communities in their work?<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Natasha Jones, Laura Gonzales,
and Angela Haas invite us to think of community and care as key concepts in
building any anti-racist initiatives that “centralize the desires and
experiences of those most oppressed” (31). <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">How has the concept of
community (broadly defined) shaped your programmatic work to be more inclusive
and equitable?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">How did you (re)configure
professional development offerings and programming opportunities to include
traditionally excluded or marginalized groups: part-time adjuncts, faculty who
are caregivers, faculty who are (single) parents? <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">How did you extend care to
both individuals and communities as you engaged in social justice WPAing?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">Who and what became
centralized in your social justice WPAing initiatives? <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">Conversely, who and what was
pushed to the periphery of your work? How did you negotiate these decisions? <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Finally, successful and
meaningful social-justice work is reflective. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What are your reflections on
the work you have done or have attempted to do at your program? <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What insights have you
gleaned from those reflections? What opportunities do you see possible based on
your reflections?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What’s the path forward based
on those insights?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">Which changes are you
planning to continue now that the pandemic is no longer a force that shapes and
influences our practices and policies?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3""><span>º<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Palatino">What can other WPAs transfer
from your reflections to their local programs and contexts?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Palatino">Conference Proposals <span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span> </span></span></b></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span>A.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span></i></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span style="font-family:Palatino">Presentation Formats<span></span></span></i></b></p>

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<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.2in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><i><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span>1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span></i><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family:Palatino">15-minute individual presentations</span></i><span style="font-family:Palatino">. You may submit individual paper or presentation
proposals; these will be combined into panels/sessions with around three
presenters. We’ll once again try to put you in touch with one another in
advance of the conference so that you can develop a coherent panel. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.2in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><i><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span>2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span></i><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family:Palatino">Full-session proposals</span></i><span style="font-family:Palatino">. You may submit a proposal for a session with
groups of 3 or more presenters/facilitators. We encourage you to consider
innovative, interactive delivery methods. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.2in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><i><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span>3.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span></i><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family:Palatino">Roundtable discussions</span></i><span style="font-family:Palatino">: You may submit a proposal for a roundtable
discussion in groups of 3 or more presenters. The format means presenters
introduce the topic and ask questions that engage the audience in a discussion
for the big part of the session.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.2in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><i><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span>4.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span></i><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family:Palatino">Show-Not-Tell Workshops</span></i><span style="font-family:Palatino">: A group of two – five presenters design a 75-minute
workshop to demonstrate “how” they do a WPA task. Think about using
spreadsheets, leading an innovative, interactive professional development event
on zoom, planning for a limited curriculum revision … that kind of thing. You
may ask participants to bring their own device.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.2in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><i><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span>5.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span></i><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family:Palatino">Poster presentations</span></i><span style="font-family:Palatino">. You may to develop a poster presentation by
yourself or with others. You could either work with a group to develop a full
session with 4 – 6 posters, or propose an individual poster presentation, and
we will form sessions on related topics.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.2in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><i><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span>6.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span></i><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family:Palatino">Digital Stories</span></i><span style="font-family:Palatino">: Share the story of your program in a digital exhibition and have an
interactive discussion with your audience about what you’ve done or want to do.
Although the modality is open, we’d ask that you plan for a digital story
that’s not longer than 10 minutes to allow for an interactive, engaged
discussion with your audience. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Proposal Topics/Strands<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:Palatino">At the Reno 2023
conference, we ask that you indicate the strand that best matches your proposal
topic. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:Palatino">(The list of topics below
is used with permission from </span><i><span style="font-family:Palatino">WPA: Writing Program Administration </span></i><span style="font-family:Palatino">editors)<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Writing faculty
professional development<span style="font-family:Palatino"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Labor
conditions: material, practical, fiscal <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext"><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Anti-racists
WPA work<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Teaching
writing with electronic texts (multimodality) and teaching in digital spaces <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Theory,
practice, and philosophy of writing program administration <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">O</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">utreach and advocacy <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Curriculum development
<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Writing
program assessment <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext"><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Social
justice through WPA work<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">National and
regional trends in education and their impact on WPA work <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Issues of
professional advancement and writing program administration <span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">D</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">iversity and WPA
work</span><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span>B.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">   
</span></span></span></i></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span style="font-family:Palatino">Institute Proposals<span></span></span></i></b></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span> </span></span></i></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">In the spirit of welcoming a range of voices and perspectives, we
invite proposals for full-day post-conference institutes. We will offer three
institutes on the program. Institutes are interactive and practical spaces for
WPAs to learn about topics such as program assessment, preparing for the job
market, conducting administrative research, working with various student
populations, writing grant proposals, writing as a WPA, leading effective
professional development activities in a writing program (to name a few). Each
instituts typically has two leaders.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Palatino">Conference Dates<span></span></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">As we listened to our
members’ concerns about conference cost, we have flipped the traditional model
so that the conference is during the week when conference hotel rates are the
cheapest. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Conference: Sunday 7/16 –
Tuesday 7/18<span></span></span></p>

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7/19<span></span></span></p>

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– Saturday 7/22<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Palatino">Proposal Submission
Timeline<span></span></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">If you plan to apply for
travel fund, we encourage you to <b>submit your proposal for an early decision</b>
by January 15, 2023. Decisions will be made by February 6, 2023.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Palatino">The proposal
submission deadline</span></b><span style="font-family:Palatino"> is March 6,
2023, with decisions expected by April 3, 2023.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">For Proposal Guidelines
and Submissions, please visit </span><a href="https://wpacouncil.org/aws/CWPA/pt/sp/conference_home_page" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:Palatino">our website</span></a><span style="font-family:Palatino">.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">For proposal questions
email Lilian Mina at </span><a href="mailto:cwpareno2023@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:Palatino">cwpareno2023@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">For local Reno, NV
questions email Jim Webber, Todd Ruecker, and Katie Miller at </span><a href="mailto:cwpareno2023local@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:Palatino">cwpareno2023local@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">On behalf of CWPA<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Lilian Mina, Ph.D.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">CWPA Vice President<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Associate Professor and
Director of Composition<span></span></span></p>

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at Birmingham<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Works Cited and Consulted<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">Diab,
Rasha et al. "Making Commitments to Racial Justice Actionable." <i>Across
the Disciplines: A Journal of Language, Learning and Academic Writing</i>, vol.
10, no. 3, 2013.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">Grayson,
Mara Lee. "Racial Literacy Is Literacy: Locating Racial Literacy in the
College Composition Classroom." <i>The Journal of the Assembly for
Expanded Perspectives on Learning</i>, vol. 24, no. 4, 2019, pp. 17-46.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">Jones,
Natasha N. et al. "So You Think You’re Ready to Build New Social Justice
Initiatives?: Intentional and Coalitional Pro-Black Programmatic and
Organizational Leadership in Writing Studies." <i>WPA: Writing Program
Administration</i>, vol. 44, no. 3, 2021, pp. 29-35.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">Kynard,
Carmen. "“Troubling the Boundaries” of Anti-Racism: The Clarity of Black
Radical Visions Amid Racial Erasure." <i>WPA: Writing Program
Administration</i>, vol. 44, no. 3, 2021, pp. 185-92.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">Royster, Jacqueline Jones. "When the First
Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own." <i>College Composition and Communication</i>,
vol. 47, no. 1, 1996, pp. 29-40.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">Sanchez, James Chase and Tyler S. Branson.
"The Role of Composition Programs in De-Normalizing Whiteness in the
University: Programmatic Approaches to Anti-Racist Pedagogies." <i>WPA:
Writing Program Administration</i>, vol. 39, no. 2, 2016, pp. 47-52<span></span></span></p>

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<div><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b>Lilian W. Mina</b><b>, Ph.D.<br></b>Vice President/President Elect, Council of Writing Program Administrators</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Associate Professor of English, Rhetoric and Composition</span></font></span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Director of Freshman English</span></font></span></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)">Department of English</span><br></span></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)<br></span></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)">To schedule a meeting:</span> </span></font></span><a rel="noopener" href="https://calendly.com/lilianmina/meeting-with-lilian" target="_blank">https://calendly.com/lilianmina/meeting-with-lilian</a></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="mailto:lilian.mina@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif" color="#3333ff"></font></a></div>
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