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2004 · San Antonio

They Made Composition Matter: Writing Program Administrators Before 1976

Session I.8

Area: History

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair Kathleen Hunter The College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ → College of Saint Elizabeth
Presenters Jill Rudy Brigham Young University, Provo, UT → Brigham Young University Composition Matters in Higher Education: Stith Thompason, Harvard University, and the Meritocracy of Composition Administration
Presenters Lisa Mastrangelo The College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ → College of Saint Elizabeth Making Composition Matter: A Community of Nineteenth-Century Female Administrators
Presenters Suzanne Bordelon San Diego State University, CA → San Diego State University Perpetuating a Vassar Legacy: Socially Conscious Women Teaching Writing

Source

NCTE's program, near page 193 of the file. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conventions.

Cite as: Conference on College Composition and Communication. “They Made Composition Matter: Writing Program Administrators Before 1976.” 2004 Convention Program, San Antonio, session I.8. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 2, 2026.