Edited by Megan O'Neill and Genie Nicole Giaimo

Writing Program Administration
Edited by Chris Carter and Laura Micciche

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978-1-64317-487-7 (paperback, $36.95); 978-1-64317-488-4 (PDF, $19.95); 978-1-64317-489-1 (EPUB, $19.99) © 2025 by Parlor Press. 348 pages, with notes, bibliography, and index.

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What People Are Saying

“With assessment considered a significant focus of any WPA or WCD position, Writing Assessment at Small Liberal Arts Colleges will become a go-to resource for professionals of all ranks.” —Allison Carr, Coe College

“I particularly appreciate the practicality of the collection and that many of the chapters include actionable steps and real samples from specific institutions/programs/initiatives. This is one of the aspects of this collection that I think will make it incredibly valuable for those doing SLAC WPA work!” —Marion Wolfe, Case Western Reserve University

About This Book

Writing Assessment at Small Liberal Arts Colleges focuses on the state of writing program administration and assessment at small liberal arts colleges.  Small liberal arts colleges have rich writing traditions unique to their size and culture. This collection with twenty-two contributors details numerous unique assessment projects and showcases programs that promote inclusive pedagogy and reflective writing program administration.

Writing Assessment at Small Liberal Arts Colleges provides an updated set of assessment projects and rhetorical analyses of practices, policies, and curricula over a decade after the publication of Gladstein and Regaignon’s Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges. Current and aspiring writing program administrators at small liberal arts colleges, as well as graduate students and others interested in researching or teaching at SLACs, will find chapters on writing and program assessment, writing center administration, honor codes, equitable assessment practices, reflective administration and assessment, antiracist assessment, and more. Contributors include Sarah Agnihotri, Hannah Bellwoar, Holly Blakely, Julie Christoph, George Cusack, Bridget Draxler, Kim Fahle Peck, Matthew Fledderjohann, Crystal Fodrey, Bridget Fullerton, Genie Giaimo, Claire Jackson, Diane LeBlanc, Bryan Lutz, Abby Madar, Gabriel Morrison, Megan O'Neill, Sarah Polo, Justine Post, Kristina Reardon, Hayley Stefan, Nicole Weaver, and Kara Wittman. 

About the Editors

Dr. Megan O’Neill is Professor of English and the Director of Writing at Stetson University. Megan has made a career at Stetson after three years at Creighton University, where she was the Director of First Year Writing and built interests in assessment, faculty development, and high-impact pedagogy. At Stetson University since 1999, she has focused on transforming the general education curriculum around writing-intensive courses, including the enhancement of faculty development strategies, the creation of a WAC program that replaced the long-standing First Year English courses, and the establishment of a continuous process of writing assessment. She reported on this work in Composition Studies (2014) and has offered related workshops and conference presentations to a wide range of audiences (AAC&U, SLAC WPA, NCTE, and others), showcasing her interests in pedagogy, information literacy, and writing assessment. As the Director of the Quality Enhancement Plan and Executive Director for Liberal Learning at Stetson, Megan has been part of several significant curricular change initiatives, among them the AAC&U Institutes on General Education, Pedagogy, and Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Genie Nicole Giaimo is Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric and Director of the Writing Center at Hofstra University. Prior to joining Hofstra, Genie was Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Middlebury College. They have worked in several academic institutions, including a two-year college and a land grant institution. Their current research utilizes qualitative and quantitative models to answer a range of questions about behaviors and practices in and around writing centers and writing programs as well as labor issues in the profession. Their research has appeared in Praxis, Writing Center Journal, TPR, Journal of Writing Research, Kairos, Journal of Writing Analytics, Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Composition Studies and several other peer-reviewed journals in rhetoric and composition. They are the author of three other books including Storying Writing Center Labor for Anti-Capitalist Futures (2024) with Dan Lawson, Unwell Writing Centers: Searching for Wellness in Neoliberal Educational Institutions and Beyond (2023) (which earned the IWCA Outstanding Book Award in 2024) and Wellness and Care in Writing Center Work (2021). They are the 2021 recipient, along with Sam Turner, of the CWPA Outstanding Scholarship Award.