Dear Colleagues,
For those heading to Cleveland for CCCC 2026, please mark your calendars for the following Independent Writing Departments and Programs Affiliate (IWDPA) events:
IWDPA Business Meeting—All are Welcome.
Want to learn more about or get involved with IWDPA? Make connections? Share an idea/potential initiative? If you’re curious about or affiliated with an independent writing program/independent writing center, we’d like to meet you! Join us to connect—we’ll be brainstorming ideas for the IWDPA call for proposals for the CCCC 2026 Standing Group-Sponsored Panel and we are also looking for people interested in leadership positions!
- Thursday, 3/5, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
- Meeting Room 20; Exhibit Hall Level C2; Huntington Convention Center
IWDPA Standing Group-Sponsored Panel—All are Welcome.
Resilience and Visibility: Why Independent Programs? Why an Affiliate Organization for Them?
- Saturday, 3/7, 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Room 26 C; Ballroom Level C4, Huntington Convention Center
This panel explores the institutional, intellectual, and practical stakes of independent writing programs and centers. Through three case studies in conversation with one another, we highlight several key—distinctive and overlapping—affordances, vulnerabilities, and futures of independent writing programs.
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- Rebecca Babcock, University of Texas Permian Basin
- Denise Comer, Duke University
- Colin Charlton, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Hope you can join!
Best,
Denise Comer
IWDPA President, 2024-26
The Independent Writing Departments and Programs Affiliate (IWDPA) is a CCCC Standing Group.
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