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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
Power Revisited; Or, How We Became a Department.
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Howard, Rebecca Moore – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1993
Describes the transformation of the Colgate Interdisciplinary Writing Program into a department. Notes that, as the members of the program strove to lose their subordinate status, they worked against the temptation to do so in a militaristic spirit of antagonism, for that would undermine the collectivism that characterizes the program's…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Principles, Collegiality, Departments
Writing across the English Department.
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Beene, LynnDianne; Sanders, Scott P. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1987
Describes the University of New Mexico's undergraduate writing program which provides a concentration in professional writing, offering students vocational and humanistic preparation by teaching skills and critically examining the contexts of their writing. Concludes that the English curriculum should accept the complementary importance of writing…
Descriptors: College English, Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives, English Departments
WPAs Assess the CCCC's "Statement of Principles and Standards."
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Carter, Duncan; McClelland, Ben – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1992
Identifies 10 questions that dominated the 1990 WPA Conference at Portland, Oregon, part of a continuing dialogue over professional standards in writing instruction. Captures the voices of conference participants as they pose answers to the issues raised in the Wyoming Resolution and the Statement of Principles and Standards. (RS)
Descriptors: College Faculty, English Departments, Higher Education, Part Time Faculty
Reinventing First-Year Composition at the First Land-Grant University: A Cautionary Tale.
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Graham, Margaret Baker; Birmingham, Elizabeth; Zachry, Mark – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1997
Examines the restructuring of first-year composition at Iowa State University. Discusses the exodus of tenure-track faculty from first-year composition in the late 1970's and early 1980's; why upper administration is now mandating tenure-track faculty's return; why the department of English is cooperating; and potential risks in cooperating or not…
Descriptors: English Departments, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Politics of Education
Enculturation, Not Alchemy: Professionalizing Novice Writing Program Administrators.
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Peters, Bradley – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Discusses a process of acculturation in three stages by which fledgling Writing Program Administrators can be transformed into change agents: (1) critically reading the program to locate key allies, potential advocates, and proven adversaries; (2) implementing changes on an infrastructural level to convert positive relations among colleagues into…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Cooperative Planning, English Departments, Higher Education
WAC at Century's End: Haunted by the Ghost of Fred Newton Scott.
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McLeod, Susan H. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1997
Discusses two danger signs for writing across the curriculum (WAC) program survival, dealing with their cross-curricular structure, and their heavy dependence on just one person for their health and continuation. Outlines two cases from the history of writing instruction at the University of Michigan providing a precautionary tale for both kinds…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, English Departments, Financial Support, 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
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
Graduate Students, Writing Programs, and Consensus-based Management: Collaboration in the Face of Disciplinary Ideology.
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Anson, Chris M.; Rutz, Carol – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Surveys past graduate-student administrators (now in professional and academic careers) involved in the consensus-based management system of a composition program. Finds that such involvement exposed graduate students to the most challenging aspects of university life, in all its political, structural, and interpersonal complexity; and was central…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Cooperative Planning, English Departments, Graduate Students
An Intentionally Ecological Approach to Teacher Training.
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Blakemore, Peter – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Outlines the predominant paradigm of teacher training that claims theory as the primary component in teacher preparation and that holds an empty vessel view of teachers-to-be. Advocates asking questions from an ecological and phenomenological viewpoint. Describes four different ways, drawn from the author's experience, that a person might be…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Cooperative Planning, English Departments, Higher Education