Discusses the Wyoming Conference Resolution, which calls on the Conference on College Composition and Communication Executive Committee to formulate professional standards for postsecondary writing teachers; and set up grievance procedures against, and to establish means to censure, institutions which fail to comply with these standards. Appends…

Describes the efforts of the basic writing program at the University of Louisville (Kentucky) to develop portfolio evaluation procedures to replace exit examinations. As a result, collaboration has come to play a more important role in relationships between administrator and teacher, as well as between teacher and student. (JK)