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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 35.2: From the Editors | "Pausing in the Whirlwind: A Campus Place-Based Curriculum in a Multimodal Foundation Communication Course" by Barbara J. Blakely and Susan B. Pagnac | "Cultivating Sensibility in Writing Program Administration" by Matthew Heard | "Writing Placement That Supports Teaching and Learning" by Emily Isaacs and Catherine Keohane | "Just Comp" by Don J. Kraemer | "Professional Identity in a Contingent-Labor Profession: Expertise, Autonomy, Community in Composition Teaching" by Ann M. Penrose | "Uncommon Conversations: How Nearly Three Decades of Paying Attention Allows One WAC/WID Program to Thrive" by Martha A. Townsend, Martha D. Patton, and Jo Ann Vogt | "On the Crossroads and at the Heart: A Conversation with the 2012 WPA Summer Conference Local Host about the Place of the Writing Program at the University of New Mexico" by Shirley K Rose and Chuck Paine | WPA SYMPOSIUM RESPONSE: "Composition, Commonplaces, and Who Cares?" by Melissa Ianetta | "Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers, and Posers; or, the I's Have It" by Rita Malenczyk | "Different Paths to the Same Goal: A Response to Barbara Cambridge" by Randall McClure and Dayna V. Goldstein | "Review Essay: Enhancing Learning and Thinking in Higher Education" by Sherry Rankins-Robertson, Tiffany Bourelle, and Duane Roen | Contributors | Announcements