Afterword: BOWLING TOGETHER: Developing, Distributing, and Using the WPA Outcomes Statement—and Making Cultural Change

The WPA Outcomes Statement has succeeded: we know this. Patti Ericsson’s research has documented this claim, and we have lists of (many kinds of) schools— from Johnson Community College and UC Santa Barbara to Arizona State and Xavier University and theentireVirginia Community College system—that have used it in a fundamental way, to helpshapecomposition curricula: through using its concepts and vocabulary to write the composition curriculum, through designing activities that lead to demonstration of the WPA outcomes, through creating assessments that link these activities and outcomes. We also know that other institutions not on the “Ericsson”