<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)">Hello everyone,</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)">We know it's a busy semester and that putting together a conference proposal may be challenging as we approach mid-semester point. To give everyone a few more days to send in their CWPA conference proposals, <b>the proposal deadline will be extended to 11:59 pm EDT on March 17. <br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We are still looking for more presentations from under-represented institutions: SLACs, HBCUs, two-year colleges, and Tribal Colleges. So please encourage people you know working at these institutions to send us their proposals. I'd love to see all institution types represented at the conference. <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)">We are also still looking for more institute proposals. Thanks for those who submitted one. If you have an idea but are not sure whether it would work for an institute, I'm happy to talk about it. Reach out and let's discuss what you have in mind. <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)"><b>Reminders</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><i>Conference CFP and Emerging Discussions can be found <a href="https://wpacouncil.org/aws/CWPA/pt/sp/conference_home_page">here</a>. </i><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><b><i><br></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><b><i>Edited Collection on
Social Justice WPAing</i></b><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Dominic
DelliCarpini, David Green (conference keynote speakers), and I will co-edit a
new collection on the conference theme: Social Justice WPAing. Like the
conference CFP, this collection “<i>invites and challenges 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.”</i><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">The purpose of that
collection is 1) to contribute to the somewhat scarce literature on social
justice and WPA work, 2) to give many conference presentations a wider
audience, and 3) to give WPAs interested in doing social justice work in their
programs a good resource that they can use. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Unlike conference
proceedings, this collection will go through the regular editorial and
peer-review process to ensure quality of publication. <b>Only presenters at the
CWPA summer conference</b> will have the opportunity to submit proposals to
that collection based on their conference presentations. Get your proposals in
before the March 6<sup>th</sup> deadline and don’t miss this opportunity to
share your work with conference attendants and possibly a wider audience
afterwards.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Palatino">A complete CFP will be
available close to the conference in July. <span></span></span></p>
</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)"><b><i>Keynote Speakers</i></b></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)"><img src="cid:ii_leoaei2o0" alt="Keynote Speakers.png" width="352" height="456"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">All registration and sponsorship information will be available soon. <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)">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Lilian</div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">
<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><a href="https://calendly.com/lilianmina/meeting-with-lilian" target="_blank">https://calendly.com/lilianmina/meeting-with-lilian</a></span></font></span></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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