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Clark, Robert A. – American Sociologist, 2008
Sociology exists in a dynamic academic environment that influences how students view and evaluate the discipline. This essay explores the changing academic context of sociology through the author's experience as a professor and department chair over a span of four decades. Increased co-curricular programming, changing student goals, and more…
Descriptors: Ecology, Educational Change, Sociology, Educational Environment
Boquet, Elizabeth H.; Lerner, Neal – College English, 2008
Originally published in a 1984 issue of "College English," Stephen North's article "The Idea of a Writing Center" has over the years been much cited in writing center scholarship. Even so, this scholarship as a whole did not proceed to gain much presence in "CE" and other broadly-oriented composition journals. Reconsidering North's piece, the…
Descriptors: College English, Writing (Composition), Laboratories, English Departments
Wilson, Douglas L.; Mailloux, Steven; Johnson, Nan; Stauffer, John; Wolk, Tony; Schilb, John – College English, 2009
2009 is the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. Naturally, historians are thrilled. But what about their discipline? Why and how might Lincoln matter to English studies? In this article, the authors reflect on Lincoln and his influence on English studies. They argue that Lincoln has played or can play an important role in the college English…
Descriptors: College English, Historians, English Instruction, Reflection
Risinger, C. Frederick – Social Education, 2010
This article presents an open letter to President Barack Obama written by the author to express his concerns about the increasing emphasis on mathematics and science education along with the continued emphasis on reading/language arts while a fourth major curriculum area--social studies--is being marginalized by lack of funding and reduced…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, State Departments of Education, Presidents, Mathematics Education
Barlow, Dudley – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
In this article the author shares his thoughts on how perceptions can be distorted by blinders people impose on themselves which brings him back to one of his literary and intellectual loadstones--"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." He learned that the English department at the school where he taught has changed the American literature syllabus.…
Descriptors: Race, English Departments, United States Literature, Classics (Literature)
Beard, David – Composition Forum, 2008
As part of the development of a Department of Writing Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, the 99-year-old Department of Rhetoric in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences was dismantled. The bulk of Rhetoric faculty have been shifted to this new department of Writing Studies. The…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Universities, Departments, Educational History
Sleeter, Christine E. – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
Over the last two decades in many countries, culturally responsive, multicultural and bilingual approaches to teaching have largely been replaced by standardised curricula and pedagogy, rooted in a political shift toward neoliberalism that has pushed business models of school reform. I argue that neoliberal reforms, by negating the central…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Politics of Education, Business
Mendelson, Michael – Liberal Education, 2006
For four years, the author of this article was the English department learning community coordinator in one of the larger learning community (LC) programs in the country. During his tenure, the number of composition sections linked with courses in other departments grew from a handful to sixty-four. Over this same period, the retention rates for…
Descriptors: Coordinators, English Departments, Community Colleges
Barden, Dennis M. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Even by the standards of higher education, presidential search committees are odd concoctions, combining the dynamics of the governing board, the faculty, the administration and staff, and the students in an environment that is, at best, unusual and, at worst, adversarial. Ultimately, however, that committee's work is vital to the future of the…
Descriptors: Search Committees (Personnel), Governing Boards, Personnel Selection, Advisory Committees
Gerstenberger, Donna – ADE Bulletin, 1981
Discusses faculty development and the role of the English department chairperson in that area. (FL)
Descriptors: Department Heads, English Departments, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Dalbey, Marcia A. – ADE Bulletin, 1999
Notes that the question of whether English departments had a future was asked 17 years ago when the author first became a department chair as it is asked now upon her retirement. Discusses things about the profession that have changed, for good or ill. Suggests that the profession's penchant for self-examination has not changed. (RS)
Descriptors: Department Heads, English Departments, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines
Stancil, George Ira, III – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role state departments of education, a professional organization and a leading internet organization play in providing recommendations and guidelines in the construction of new high school libraries. Four state agencies were identified and specific square footage formulas noted as well as information…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Libraries, State Departments of Education, Web Sites
Graziano, Frank – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Last spring, the author distributed a survey to majors and minors in Hispanic studies at Connecticut College and at other schools to informally gather student attitudes toward the nature of Hispanic-studies courses as it pertained to their interests and goals. Although results were somewhat predictable, an unexpected finding was that of 148…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Student Attitudes, Spanish, Surveys
Collins, Rowland L. – ADE Bulletin, 1980
Discusses the responsibilities of serving as English department head. Two main duties identified are (1) to preserve and expand knowledge and (2) to ensure the success of the educational mission of the department. The administrator is encouraged to maintain scholarly activities while being a student of departmental and institutional affairs. (DF)
Descriptors: Administrators, Department Heads, English Departments, Higher Education
Brockmann, Stephen – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
The move of the University of Southern California to eliminate its German department in order to shift resources to Asian languages has sparked a debate about the relative importance of learning European languages. College administrators seem to assume that global shifts in economic power call for changes in the distribution of their budget for…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Cultural Background