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WPA Consultant-Evaluator Service
for Writing Programs

The WPA consultant-evaluator service helps colleges and universities develop and assess their writing programs. Operating on a method similar to regional accreditation agencies, WPA evaluations have several stages. WPA requests a written program self-study, sends a team of two trained consultant-evaluators to campus for interviews and on-site evaluation, and then compiles a final report. A six-month follow-up report from the campus completes the process.

WPA consultant-evaluators are leaders in the field of composition. They come from four-year colleges, community colleges, and universities. All are experienced writing program administrators with a national perspective on composition teaching and program administering. As evaluators, their primary goal is to determine a program's unique strengths and weaknesses, not to transform all writing programs into clones of their own. They recognize that every program must retain its individual character, serve a particular community, and solve special problems.

Institutions pay the travel and accommodations cost for the consultant-evaluator team, plus an honorarium, currently $1500, and an administrative fee.

Applications for the service should be initiated 3 months before consultant-evaluators visit a campus. WPAs, department chairs, or college administrators may apply to:

Deborah H. Holdstein

Professor of English and Rhetoric

Governors State University

University Park, Illinois 60466

Office Phone: 708.534.4586

Fax: 708.534.7895

gas54r0@uxa.govst.edu

or

Edward White

California State University at San Bernardino

ewhite@WILEY.CSUSB.EDU

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