This is a “starter book” for preparing successful Two-Year College (TYC) faculty. In this slim tome graduate students, as well as TYC and four-year college faculty, articulate their experience and expertise with the goal of improving and expanding graduate students’ career dreams and intellectual preparation.Our authors write candidly and knowledgeably about TYC teaching and working life. They show graduate students the array of opportunities and challenges for beginning and pursui...

Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal examines WPA journeys and journeying.Designed for WPA graduate seminars and professional development workshops, this book addresses two questions:• How do people develop readiness to serve as WPAs?• How do experienced WPAs find or create renewal opportunities that help them move forward throughout their lives and careers?Authors address these questions from their sometimes-intersecting identities as BIPOC scho...

This book explores the relevance of institutional mission to writing program administration and writing center direction. It helps WPAs and writing center directors understand the challenges and opportunities mission can pose to their work. It also examines ways WPAs and writing center directors can work with and against mission statements and legacy practices to do their best work.