The functioning of the college English department during a period of rapid societal change is important. English programs can and have been interrupted by student activists. Such crises in formal education are small in comparison with the overriding issues of whether or not man can survive as a species past the turn of the next century and of what…

The responses of 19 members of the National Council of Teachers of English (classroom teachers, secondary school department chairmen, curriculum directors, supervisors of English, members of college departments of English, and English specialists with state departments of education) to a letter requesting them to describe the kind of year they…

This special issue of "Council-Grams," the newsletter of the National Council of Teachers of English, reports responses to a September, 1972, questionnaire about the teaching of English sent to teachers and administrators of English and education in secondary schools, colleges, and universities. The questions included the following: What…