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Download full textModern Language Association, 2024
The Association of Departments of English (ADE) Ad Hoc Committee on English Majors' Career Preparation and Outcomes was charged with reporting on career outcomes for English majors and minors; gathering case studies and other forms of evidence of departments' effective strategies and curricular innovations for working with students on career…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English Instruction, Majors (Students), Career Development
Direct linkButler, Tiffani Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Department chairs serve a vital function at community colleges. They are middle managers, mid-level leaders, and faculty members. They serve a unique position within the organization because they interact with nearly every unit: academics affairs, student affairs, senior administrators and students. At a time when professional organizations are…
Descriptors: Leadership Role, Department Heads, Middle Management, College Faculty
Peer reviewedCombs, Stephen M. – Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research, 2016
The search for a common model of instruction in first-year composition began in the 1960s when composition first began to separate from literature in college English departments. Because writing is essentially a methods course with no standard curriculum as one might find in physics or economics, common model has been elusive. A sign that…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Open Enrollment, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Loughman, Kyle Sean – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Currently, two-year colleges are teaching the lion's share of college composition classes, mainly consisting of developmental writing and first-year composition courses; however, those same two-year colleges have been slow in embracing the composition theory and practices that are studied and implemented at four-year colleges. One way to…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Administrators
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
Strouthopoulos, Chris; Peterson, Janet L. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
In this essay, the authors chronicle the overhauling of their English department's rubric design, curriculum, and portfolio in order to emphasize a wider range of "real-world" writing. The authors share that in the process of their overhaul, they redefined their identity--how they thought of themselves and how they wanted to approach…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, English Departments, Writing (Composition), Educational Change
