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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