Wilkes, Lydia, editorMina, Lilian W., editorPoblete, Patti, editorUtah State University Press, publisher2023-03-302023-03-302023https://hdl.handle.net/10217/236387Includes bibliographical references and index.Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration builds on forty years of conversations about metaphors by presenting twelve chapters that reclaim and revise established metaphors; offer new metaphors based on sustainable, relational, or emotional labor practices and phenomena; and reveal the improvisational nature of WPA work.--Provided by publisher.From putting out fires to managing fires: lessons for WPAs from indigenous fire managers / Lydia Wilkes -- Seeing the forest and the trees: a rhizomatic metaphor for Writing Program administration / Jacob Babb -- Light and the quantum physics of WPA work / Andrew Hollinger and Manny Piña -- Grounding WPA work: a phenomenology of program development as a liminal WPA / Ryan J. Dippre -- The WPA as labor activist / John Belk -- Learning, representing, and endorsing the landscape: WPA as cartographer / Katherine Daily O'Meara -- Approaching WPA labor with Ahimsa: mapping emotional geographies through sustainable leadership / Christy I. Wenger -- Representing the basement / Alexis Teagarden -- Interlocking circles / Cynthia D. Mwenja -- The affordances and risks of artisanal production as a metaphor for Writing Program administration / Robyn Tasaka -- "Building the plane as we fly it": revising our thinking about our First-Year Experience Program / Rona Kaufman and Scott Rogers -- I'm just playin': directing writing programs as improv / Kim Gunter -- Afterword: sustaining what for why? / Douglas Hesse.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Writing centers -- AdministrationEnglish language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher)Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)College administrators -- Vocational guidanceMetaphorSustainabilityTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.