Examines the role of the English department chairman as a spokeman for his faculty and a representative of the university. (RB)

Describes a national survey on the salaries of community-junior college English instructors. (RB)

Proposes that English departments send "missionaries" into the public schools so that departments can keep in touch with what is happening in local secondary English departments. (GW)

Contrasts the need for more extensive and effective composition programs with faculty training almost exclusively focused on literature. (AA)

Describes the English program and the role it plays at Doane College, Nebraska. (JK)

In a response to the Minnesota Conference on the Future of Doctoral Study in English, states that the consensus to embrace rhetoric as a unifying focus would undercut small colleges. (MM)

Provides an interim report on the present state of the undergraduate English curriculum and the English major. (SRT)

Outlines the most effective ways of conducting a search for new English department faculty on the college level. (SRT)

Details some of the advantages provided by a testing service that evaluates student writing. (NKA)

Contrasts scholarship in technical communication with that in literary studies. (HOD)

Urges the Association of Departments of English (ADE) to issue position statements on promotion and tenure, on teaching composition, and on becoming more active politically. (AEA)

Suggests some of the roles required of English department heads and gives a few practical tips on how to cope with them. (AEA)

Concludes that the humanities cannot be reduced to the teaching of specific, depersonalized skills (such as editing) and that they must maintain the link between reading and writing. (AEA)

Discusses several developing trends that limit the effectiveness of English teachers and departments and that must be taken into account when planning for the future of English education. (FL)