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Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, Editor; Matthew Abraham, Editor – College Composition and Communication, 2016
This symposium brings together a range of scholars to consider what economic forces have driven the development of independent writing programs, and how such programs are susceptible to economic conditions and pressures, perhaps even more so than neighboring disciplines in the humanities. It includes: (1) "Documents of Dissent: Hairston's…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, English Departments, Program Development
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Klausman, Jeffrey – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
Several years ago, when his college first financed a writing program administrator (WPA) position--reassigned time and a budget to pay adjunct faculty stipends for program development--the author met with all the most senior adjunct faculty. "Without you," he told them, "this effort to build a better writing program won't work. Participation and…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Writing Instruction, Program Development, Administrator Effectiveness
Moffat, Wendy – ADE Bulletin, 2001
Describes the author's department goals with three main principles: to build departmental community, to harness rather than dissipate energy, and to address multiple audiences simultaneously. Discusses how she communicates to the college as a whole what the department does well and finds ways in which caring for the department's interests might…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Audience Awareness, Department Heads, English Departments
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Gnanapragasam, Nirmala – Advances in Engineering Education, 2010
Seattle University has an industrially sponsored, yearlong, senior design program that has been in existence for more than 20 years. Students work in teams of three or four under the guidance of a liaison from the sponsoring agency and a faculty advisor. The students prepare a proposal in the fall quarter detailing their plan and a design report…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Engineering Education, Design, Student Projects
Knapp, James F. – ADE Bulletin, 2001
Honors Phil Smith for his outstanding contribution to the English profession. Notes that as chair of his department, Phil Smith understood the social complexity of the organization he administered, and his example is particularly instructive when it reveals the thoughtfulness with which he addressed the issue of work for all his colleagues. (SG)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Department Heads, English Departments, Higher Education
Bialostosky, Don – ADE Bulletin, 2001
Considers how Phil Smith has given much thought in his own department, and in the national deliberations, to the staffing crisis in English departments, and he has done so with attention to the highest values and to the needs of all, from undergraduate students in the general education courses to part-timers to tenure-track and tenured faculty…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Department Heads, Employment Practices, English Departments
Peeples, Timothy; Rominski, Paula; Strickland, Michael – Composition Studies, 2007
In this article, the authors use two sets of terms--"chronos/kairos" and strategy/tactic--to frame the way they tell the story or the "case" of Professional Writing and Rhetoric's (PWR's) developing identity at Elon University. In doing so, they offer to the readers a framework for identity development that is portable across contexts. The authors…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Program Development, Higher Education, College English
Journet, Debra – ADE Bulletin, 2001
Tells what has happened the last two years at the University of Louisville's English department. Presents a brief explanation of why the University of Louisville's English department decided to redefine their mission--moving all professorial faculty into first-year composition. Offers some general comments about what the author has learned as a…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Department Heads, English Departments, Freshman Composition
Loftis, John E. – ADE Bulletin, 1995
Describes how English department chairs might successfully order and structure their departments. Analyzes two central characteristics of English departments as political entities: purpose and values. Lists several observations about departmental organization. (HB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Democracy, Department Heads, English Curriculum
Schroeder, Patricia R. – ADE Bulletin, 1993
Recounts the process and narrates the steps taken by the English department at Ursinus College, Pennsylvania, in its major renovation of its outdated English curriculum. Describes the working conditions of the department and the newly devised curriculum. (HB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, English Departments, English Instruction
Knoblauch, Cy – ADE Bulletin, 2001
Considers that the issue behind English department recruitment is not the size of the major but the focus and pertinence of the curriculum, where success is defined by an effective articulation between what a faculty believes it has to offer and what serious, goal-oriented students--the sort wanted in the major in the first place--are looking to…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Departments, Higher Education, Program Development
Lyons, Paul R. – 1976
In 1975, the departments of English, history, modern foreign languages, and philosophy at Frostburg State College (Maryland) cooperatively proposed a master of arts program in modern studies. A survey was conducted to assess reactions to the program proposal. Three populations were surveyed: (1) undergraduate English, history, and foreign language…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Leaders, Consultants, Departments
Coney, Mary B.; And Others – ADE Bulletin, 1984
Outlines five stops that can strengthen technical writing courses and programs within departments of English. (HOD)
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Objectives, English Departments, Higher Education
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Di Renzo, Anthony – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2002
Gathers some of Sir Francis Bacon's educational ideas from his various writings and applies them to the five stages of undergraduate professional and technical writing program development: planning, implementation, mission, design and development, staffing, and administration. (SG)
Descriptors: English Departments, Higher Education, Humanities, Professional Development
Long, Carol S. – ADE Bulletin, 1994
Describes how the English department at Willamette University set out to revise the English curriculum as a participant in the MLA-FIPSE English Programs Curriculum Review Project. Shows how the faculty redesigned the curriculum, and shares three important ideas that might be useful to other departments undertaking similar changes. (HB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, English Departments, English Instruction
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