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Perpetual Reformation: Louisiana State University's Curriculum Options for the Twenty-First Century.
Nardo, Anna K. – ADE Bulletin, 2000
Spotlights one site where the new curriculum calls the English department at Louisiana State University toward further change: the juncture between the undergraduate and graduate curricula. Illustrates the benefits of adopting a document that articulates curricular goals. Describes a five-year curriculum revision process. Attaches excerpts from a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, English Departments, Higher Education

Waldo, Mark L. – Writing Center Journal, 1990
Suggests that the ideal relationship between the writing center and an English department's writing program is almost symbiotic, each benefiting the other and both forwarding writing as a powerful tool for writing. Describes the writing centers at Montana State University and University of Nevada, Reno. (RS)
Descriptors: English Departments, Higher Education, Program Administration, Program Descriptions
Dalbey, Marcia A. – ADE Bulletin, 1995
Suggests that the technical and professional writing concentration in the English department at Eastern Michigan University serves as an example of the way Master of Arts (MA) programs often reflect the economy of a particular region. Discusses the MA program at Eastern Michigan University. (RS)
Descriptors: Degree Requirements, English Departments, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Brock, Marian D.; And Others – ADE Bulletin, 1983
Describes a program in which a department chairperson gains released time for volunteers from a full-time faculty to serve as administrative associates. Discusses such a procedure at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. (AEA)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Department Heads, Educational Administration
Schuster, Charles I. – ADE Bulletin, 1982
Discusses the preparation of English education graduates in general and of those at the University of Washington in particular. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Employment Opportunities, English Departments, English Teacher Education

Adomaitis, Charlotte – Clearing House, 1996
Describes the severe challenges and recent hopeful improvements at Thomas Jefferson High School, an inner-city school in Brooklyn, New York. (SR)
Descriptors: English Departments, High Risk Students, High Schools, Inner City
Leonard, David C. – 1994
Although most programs in technical communication reside in English departments where the focus is on writing, rhetoric, and exposition, the graduate certificate program in interactive multimedia at Mercer University is being developed for the Technical Communication Department within the School of Engineering. As a result, many of the…
Descriptors: English Departments, Higher Education, Hypermedia, Interdisciplinary Approach
Link, Frederick M. – ADE Bulletin, 1983
Views the teaching of a traditional English curriculum and the development of extramural cultural programs as potentially equal contributions to the discipline of English and describes a wide assortment of extramural offerings provided by the English department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (AEA)
Descriptors: College English, Cultural Awareness, English Departments, English Instruction
Tackach, James – ADE Bulletin, 1994
Describes how the English department at Roger Williams University set out to revise and revive the English major under difficult circumstances during the 1988-89 school year. Shows how the faculty redesigned the curriculum, recruited new majors, and established support programs. (HB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, English Departments, English Instruction

Guinn, Dorothy Margaret – JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 1998
Suggests that W. Ross Winterowd's most significant and influential contribution to the field of rhetoric and composition is the Rhetoric-Linguistics-Literature Program (RLL), started in 1972 as a program in the Department of English at the University of Southern California. Presents a history of the program, noting its "virtual demise"…
Descriptors: Educational History, English Departments, English Instruction, Graduate Study
Van Arsdel, Rosemary T. – ADE Bulletin, 1983
Describes a two-semester writing program that prepares English majors for professional writing careers in business or industry. (AEA)
Descriptors: Course Organization, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities, English Departments
Brown, Peggy Ann, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1984
Ways that colleges and universities provide opportunities for students to improve their writing are discussed in two essays and program descriptions. In "Reinventing the Rhetorical Tradition: Finding Ways to Revalue Writing," Patrick Hartwell and Greg Waters briefly describe activities at colleges that center around the rhetorical…
Descriptors: College English, College Programs, Degree Requirements, English Departments
Garvey, Susanne – ADE Bulletin, 1983
Describes the Washington, D.C. Center's internship program for political science and English majors. (AEA)
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Employment Experience, English Departments, English Instruction

Baumflek, Sylviane; Bloom, Dina; Dettmer, Karl; DiToro, Douglas; Friedland, Anita; Gooden, Octavio; Gooding, Karlene; Richardson, Anne; Hill, Janice; McQuillan, Gene; Mlynarczyk, Rebecca; Percaccio, Frank; Scordaras, Maria – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1997
Explores issues, problems, and procedures involved in large English departments which use portfolio assessment and where part-timers and full-timers need to collaborate in this process. Offers recommendations involving the relationship of part-time and full-time teachers in such programs. (SR)
Descriptors: English Departments, Full Time Faculty, Interprofessional Relationship, Part Time Faculty
Meagher, E. M. – 1982
The development of a college writing program can offer many challenges to a program director drawn from the ranks of the English faculty. The discipline of writing, an act of production, is both scorned and clutched by faculty who have been trained to analyze literature, an act of perception. Literature specialists, to be qualified to teach…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Faculty, English Curriculum, English Departments
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