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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