WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION Series Editors: SUSAN H. MCLEOD and MARGOT SOVEN WINNER OF THE BEST BOOK AWARD, COUNCIL OF WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS 2015 THE WPA OUTCOMES STATEMENT-A DECADE LATER addresses the national and global dispersion and influence of the Council of Writing Program Administrators' Outcomes Statement ten years after its adoption and publication. Relating how the Outcomes Statement informs the work of writing programs, writing centers, and English departments, the essays demonstrate the significant influence of the Outcomes Statement in and across institutions in...

"Some people within the United States seem caught up in extreme fear, expressed in isolationism, Islamophobia, and other bigotries. Certainly there is call for caution and for vigilance, but extremists don't particularly like these words: they want to ban Muslims from entering the United States, to put certain people in internment camps, to refuse to accept any refugees from Syria and other countries. It's a very dispiriting time, here at the end of 2015, and it's hard to find examples of people thinking clearly and cogently, which is one reason I have been so drawn to the work of this...