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Doubling Our Chances: Co-Directing a Writing Program.
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Aronson, Anne; Hansen, Craig – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Describes the authors' experience co-chairing a writing department. Identifies seven key areas where the sharing of writing program administrator duties has resulted in personal, departmental, or institutional benefits. Discusses workload and professional identity, the politics of writing programs, co-directing as post-bureaucratic practice, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Department Heads
A Co-Mentoring Model of Administration.
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Meeks, Lynn; Hult, Christine – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Describes how co-mentoring functions in the administration of the Writing Program at Utah State University, where administrative responsibilities are shared by eight people. Outlines specific systemic roles held by those involved. Argues that co-mentoring administration is enhanced through communication and various electronic media. (SR)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Higher Education
Reconstituting Authority: Four Perspectives on a Team Approach to Writing Program Administration.
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Keller, Katherine L.; Lee, Jennie; McClelland, Ben W.; Robertson, Brenda – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Offers four perspectives on dynamic changes in the architecture of power and leadership in one university's large Freshman English writing program as it implemented a more collaborative approach in its administration, reforming a top-down administrative structure into a more egalitarian one. (SR)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Department Heads
Power, Partnership, and Negotiations: The Limits of Collaboration.
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Harrington, Susanmarie; Fox, Steve; Hogue, Tere Molinder – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Offers perspectives of 3 members of a 10-member coordinating committee that has collaborated in the administration of their university's first year writing program for the past 10 years. Discusses how such partnerships come to be created in a hierarchical university environment, how power is acquired, and how collaboration works on a daily basis.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Department Heads
Collaborating with Power: Contradictions of Working as a WPA.
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Smoke, Trudy – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Reflects on the nature of power and the value of collaboration in Writing Program Administration work. Argues that the WPA position is a contradictory one which contains within it the paradox of powerless power (having responsibility and little authority, having insider knowledge and being institutionally ignorant, and needing to cooperate and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role
Who's the Boss?: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Collaborative Administration for Untenured WPAs.
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Schell, Eileen E. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Analyzes scholarship on administrative leadership styles. Describes the writing program co-directorship model the author and a colleague developed at a Southern public university, and offers a critical analysis of both the possibilities and pitfalls of collaborative administration for untenured writing program administrators. Points out ways in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Department Heads
Pleasure and Pain: Faculty and Administrators in a Shared Governance Environment.
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Fitzgerald, Sallyanne H. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Describes frictions inherent in the decision-making process at a California community college, where shared governance is both clearly defined and mandated. Discusses responsibility versus consultation and offers two successful examples (regarding the writing center and the basic writing program) in which faculty were involved in the decision and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role
Collaborating at the ECB: A Reflection.
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Quiroz, Sharon – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Overviews the 20-year history of the English Composition Board at the University of Michigan, an independent unit directed by a policy board until it was effectively ended by being placed under the English Department in 1997. Describes its early cooperative and later collaborative approach to management style. Argues efforts to institutionalize…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role