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Cornwell, Gareth – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2006
The article is an exploration of current trends within, and the desired destiny of, the humanities discipline of English Studies in the context of calls for the "Africanization" of South African universities. The essay advocates the embrace of a non-universalist, emancipationist humanism. (Contains 8 notes.)
Descriptors: English Departments, Foreign Countries, Humanities, Higher Education
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Giannelli, Gary – English Journal, 1985
Recounts the disruptions, conflicts, and general hostility that resulted when the position of English department head was eliminated in an attempt to save money. (RBW)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role
Dalbey, Marcia A. – ADE Bulletin, 1988
Describes the author's own perceptions and experiences as a woman chair, claiming that having a feminist chair (male or female) makes a positive difference in a department, for both women and men. (JK)
Descriptors: English Departments, Females, Feminism, Sex
Bialostosky, Don H. – ADE Bulletin, 1988
In a response to the Minnesota Conference on the Future of Doctoral Study in English, argues that literary theory has redirected attention to the medieval liberal arts of grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic. (JK)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Departments, Higher Education, Liberal Arts
Bitzer, Lloyd F. – Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, 1985
Sums up the roles and virtues of the ideal dean under the term "educational statesmanship." (PD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Deans, Department Heads, Educational Administration
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Dillon, Linda S. – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1983
Describes the Theory Z management approach as postulated by William G. Ouchi and presents steps to be considered by postsecondary departments of vocational education attempting to implement this approach. (NRJ)
Descriptors: Departments, Leadership Styles, Organizational Theories, Postsecondary Education
English, Todd M. – 1999
This paper is conceived as an extended reflection on what has passed for a materialist epistemology--which may be one way to understand cultural work--in English Studies. Rather than providing any final answers to the questions of what the praxis says about the theory, the paper first examines the origin of the humanistic literary text and then…
Descriptors: English Departments, Higher Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Writing Instruction
Skaggs, Calvin – ADE Bulletin, 1981
Suggests that verbal and visual literacy are interdependent and that English departments should take on the task of heightening visual literacy. (AEA)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English Departments, Higher Education, Television
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Moore, Michael L.; And Others – Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 1980
Identifies issues related to the scope and content of bargaining at three levels of state government: statewide negotiations, departmental negotiations, and delivery system negotiations. The aim of the approach is to facilitate governmental innovation and productivity. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Departments, Government Employees, Models
Christ, Carol – ADE Bulletin, 1996
Describes three criteria used by a college administrator to allocate faculty positions. Discusses ways for English departments to enhance their chances for faculty positions. Suggests that departments that can significantly enhance undergraduate education have the best claim on faculty positions. (RS)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, English Departments, Higher Education
Langland, Elizabeth – ADE Bulletin, 1996
Presents 10 concrete strategies for retaining faculty lines, strategies that respond to the new economic realities shaping institutions and at the same time preserve the vital heart of the academy. (RS)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, English Departments, Higher Education
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Silver, Harold – Studies in Higher Education, 2003
Discusses why the concept of organizational culture in higher education institutions has failed to reflect the dual position of academics in their disciplinary and institutional contexts, the former of which is generally the determining factor in most academics' conception of their identities. (EV)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Departments, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines
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Zhaoxiang, Cheng – World Englishes, 2002
Focuses on the role of English language teaching in Chinese universities. Suggests that if ELT is to survive a a university subject, it must take the character of humanistic/philosophical education, although it should retain its technical aspects. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Departments, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
David, Deirdre – ADE Bulletin, 1990
Suggests that the increasing prevalence of the two-career couple on university campuses should be viewed as an exhilarating challenge rather than an unmanageable mess of contending views. (RS)
Descriptors: English Departments, Faculty Mobility, Faculty Recruitment, Higher Education
Jehlen, Myra – ADE Bulletin, 1989
Argues that curricular revision (in the direction implied by widespread adoption of terms such as "canon" and "theory") has been accomplished with little overhauling, in large part by adding non-White, nonmale, nonclassical writers to traditional courses. Argues that reading new works is not the same as arriving at new…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, English Curriculum, English Departments, Higher Education
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