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Faye Halpern – College Composition and Communication, 2015
We in composition studies have countered the suspicion that what we do is "simplistic in method and impoverished in content" by insisting on our own disciplinary expertise, an insistence that has gained us administrative support and, arguably, better working conditions. Yet this article explores a problem that arose for the author as a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Intellectual Disciplines, Expertise, Interprofessional Relationship
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Cripps, Michael J.; Robinson, Heather M. – Composition Forum, 2014
This program profile examines efforts by WPAs at York College, a senior college in the CUNY system, to adapt to externally imposed changes and develop a locally meaningful writing program. 1999 marked the end of remediation at four-year (senior) colleges in The City University of New York. The elimination of developmental writing at CUNY's senior…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Writing Instruction, Writing Across the Curriculum, General Education
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Cook, Paul G. – Across the Disciplines, 2014
This institutional autoethnography (IAE) explores the political and pedagogical dynamics of WPA and WAC/WID work within an exceedingly small, resolutely single-sex, and assuredly rural liberal arts campus ecology. Working within a theoretical framework informed by WAC/WID's historical commitment to increasing literacy in students from diverse…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Program Administration, Ethnography, Institutional Characteristics