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Peer reviewedCornell, Cynthia; Klooster, David J. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1990
Discusses why, despite successes in other universities, some writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs are struggling to survive. Discusses faulty assumptions about WAC and competing priorities within the university. Concludes that WAC forces institutions to reexamine their identity. (RS)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Administration, College Faculty, Higher Education
Peer reviewedQuiroz, 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
