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Aronson, Anne; Hansen, Craig – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Describes the authors' experience co-chairing a writing department. Identifies seven key areas where the sharing of writing program administrator duties has resulted in personal, departmental, or institutional benefits. Discusses workload and professional identity, the politics of writing programs, co-directing as post-bureaucratic practice, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Department Heads

Peters, Bradley – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Discusses a process of acculturation in three stages by which fledgling Writing Program Administrators can be transformed into change agents: (1) critically reading the program to locate key allies, potential advocates, and proven adversaries; (2) implementing changes on an infrastructural level to convert positive relations among colleagues into…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Cooperative Planning, English Departments, Higher Education

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

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

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

Recchio, Tom – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Considers relations between the official pedagogy of the writing program that the author administers and his administrative practices, to come to terms with the hidden curriculum of his situation. Argues for a shift from thinking about administration as masterful organization and implementation to conceiving of it as relational and receptive, a…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Cooperative Planning, Freshman Composition

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

Anson, Chris M.; Rutz, Carol – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Surveys past graduate-student administrators (now in professional and academic careers) involved in the consensus-based management system of a composition program. Finds that such involvement exposed graduate students to the most challenging aspects of university life, in all its political, structural, and interpersonal complexity; and was central…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Cooperative Planning, English Departments, Graduate Students

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

Blakemore, Peter – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1998
Outlines the predominant paradigm of teacher training that claims theory as the primary component in teacher preparation and that holds an empty vessel view of teachers-to-be. Advocates asking questions from an ecological and phenomenological viewpoint. Describes four different ways, drawn from the author's experience, that a person might be…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Cooperative Planning, English Departments, Higher Education

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