Details the facts of power for administrators or writing programs. Discusses positions of power within writing programs; enemies of writing programs; wielding power in relation to the writing staff, the English department, and the administration; and how to become of aware of the power relationships and to use this power for the good of the…

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…