WPAs in Transition: Navigating Educational Leadership Positions
Wooten C.A.; Babb J.; Ray B.
2018
WPAs in Transition: Navigating Educational Leadership Positions
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10.7330/9781607326335
WPAs in Transition shares a wide variety of professional and personal perspectives about the costs, benefits, struggles, and triumphs experienced by writing program administrators making transitions into and out of leadership positions. Contributors to the volume come from various positions, as writing center directors, assistant writing program administrators, and WPAs; mixed settings, including community colleges, small liberal arts colleges, and research institutions; and a range of career stages, from early to retiring. They recount insightful anecdotes and provide a scholarly context in which WPAs can share experiences related to this long-ignored aspect of their work. During such transitions, WPAs and other leaders who function as both administrators and faculty face the professional and personal challenges of redefining who they are, the work they do, and with whom they collaborate. WPAs in Transition creates a grounded and nuanced experiential understanding of what it means to navigate changing roles, advancing the dialogue around WPAs' and other administrators' identities, career paths, work-life balance, and location, and is a meaningful addition to the broader literature on administration and leadership. © All rights reserved.
Utah State University Press, An imprint of University Press of Colorado
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