Special Issue: WAC/WID Program Administration at Rural, Regional, and Satellite Campuses

WAC, WEC, Writing Program, postsecondary institution, writing program administration

Published July 21, 2014

Guest editors: Heidi Harris, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Jessie Blackburn, Appalachian State University

Rural, regional, and/or satellite college and university campuses face shrinking budgets alongside increasing demands to educate and prepare students for twenty-first century technologies and workplaces. Scholarship focused on the work of rural WAC/WID programs in the twenty-first century is especially important in light of the Obama administration's recent appropriation of $182 million in federal stimulus money to expand high-speed Internet networks in underprivileged rural communities in Appalachia, New England, Alaska, Arizona, and other remote areas of the country that are often considered at risk as a result of the "digital divide" or "participation gap." This special issue focuses on the role of the WPA or other faculty members charged with professional development in modernizing/digitizing the composition faculty and instructors in writing-intensive and writing across the curriculum programs at rural institutions, and this issue explores the timely opportunity to address the gap in research and scholarship on the rural WPA in the twenty-first century.

Special Issue: WAC/WID Program Administration at Rural, Regional, and Satellite Campuses

Published July 21, 2014

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