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Collaborating with Power: Contradictions of Working as a WPA.
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Smoke, Trudy – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Reflects on the nature of power and the value of collaboration in Writing Program Administration work. Argues that the WPA position is a contradictory one which contains within it the paradox of powerless power (having responsibility and little authority, having insider knowledge and being institutionally ignorant, and needing to cooperate and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role
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
Pleasure and Pain: Faculty and Administrators in a Shared Governance Environment.
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Fitzgerald, Sallyanne H. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Describes frictions inherent in the decision-making process at a California community college, where shared governance is both clearly defined and mandated. Discusses responsibility versus consultation and offers two successful examples (regarding the writing center and the basic writing program) in which faculty were involved in the decision and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role
Collaborating at the ECB: A Reflection.
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Quiroz, 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