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Making Administrative Work Visible
Data-Driven Advocacy for Understanding the Labor of Writing Program Administration
edited by Leigh Graziano, Kay Halasek, Remi Hudgins, Susan Miller-Cochran, Frank Napolitano, and Natalie Szymanski
"A call for greater inclusion, attention to invisible labor, antiracism, and advocacy for justice for marginalized people and institutional agents, it speaks to, and in, an important moment and will be a touchstone for expanding conversation on this subject. This book will likely be a pillar for the creation of the next generation of professional statements on evaluating WPA work and sustaining WPA well-being.”
—Doug Downs, Montana State University
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Making Administrative Work Visible brings together voices from graduate students, associated faculty, administrative staff, and tenured and tenure-track faculty at community colleges, regional state universities, liberal arts colleges, private colleges, and research-intensive institutions across the country to speak to the challenges, both named and unnamed, faced by those who do writing program administration work. These authors call explicit attention to this work and examine WPAs’ lived labor experiences and research methodologies to truly understand the scope of lived WPA labor.
The collection has three parts, each of which focuses on the most confounding challenges facing WPAs as well as the most compelling sites of their contributions to administration, labor in higher education, and the discipline’s collective obligation to forwarding the goals of social justice and advocacy: Advocating through Representations of WPA Labor, Advocating by Accounting for Time and Labor, and Advocating in and through Complex Institutional Contexts. The chapters use data to share and track the work functions, job titles, grand narratives, program assessments, tenure and promotion, email practices, and more undertaken by WPAs in their administrative capacities. Chapters also surface narratives for future data and studies to be done by other scholars.
By taking up and answering questions about the range of WPA work—and the invisibility of much of that work—Making Administrative Work Visible creates avenues toward accounting for and acknowledging the complex activity systems in which WPAs lead the work of the university and advocate for data-driven strategies needed to sustain this foundational area of higher education.
Paper: $35.95
Ebook*: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-64642-363-7
Pages: 322
Figures: 17
(Promo code expires 05/11/2023)
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