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WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include writing faculty education, training, and professional development; writing program creation and design the development of rhetoric and writing curricula; writing assessment within programmatic contexts advocacy and institutional critique and change; writing programs and their extra-institutional relationships with writing's publics; technology and the delivery of writing instruction within programmatic contexts; wpa and writing program histories and contexts; wac / ecac / wid and their intersections with writing programs; the theory and philosophy of writing program administration issues of professional advancement and wpa work; and projects that enhance wpa work with diverse stakeholders. CONTENTS OF WPA 34.1: From the Editors - Assess Locally, Validate Globally: Heuristics for Validating Local Writing Assessments by Chris W. Gallagher - Toward Rhetorical Source Use: Three Student Journeys by Cynthia R. Haller - Undaunted, Self-Critical, and Resentful: Investigating Faculty Attitudes Toward Teaching Writing in a Large University Writing-Intensive Course Program by Lori Salem and Peter Jones - Introducing The CWPA Mentoring Project and Survey Report by Sheldon Walcher, Joseph Janangelo, and Duane Roen - Notes on Comp: When WPA Work Hints at Suspicion by Joseph Janangelo - WPAs in Dialogue: Response to Keith Rhodes's You Are What You Sell: Branding the Way to Composition's Better Future by Linda Adler-Kassner - An Agreeable Response to Linda Adler-Kassner by Keith Rhodes - A Symposium on Fostering Teacher Quality: Larry Beason, Fostering Quality through Sense of Place; Beth Brunk-Chavez, Embracing Our Expertise through Faculty and Instructional Development; Diana Ashe, Fostering Cultures of Great Teaching; Clyde Moneyhun, Performance Evaluation as Faculty Development - Review Essays: The Promises and Perils of Writing Partnerships by Lorelei Blackburn and Ellen Cushman - As Writing Professionalizes, Asking What, How, and Why by Douglas Hesse - Conflicted Brokers: The Local, Historical, and Political of Basic Writing by Kelly Ritter - Contributors to WPA 34.1 - Announcements