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| ADE Bulletin | 469 |
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| Practitioners | 4 |
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| Graduate Record Examinations | 1 |
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Pratt, Linda Ray – ADE Bulletin, 2002
Expresses concern that the future of English is a matter of dwindling importance except among English professors. Suggests English professors need to confront the growing irrelevance of English to the major developments in many institutions. Suggests the future of English may depend in part on what professors define, and defend, as the value of…
Descriptors: College English, English Departments, English Instruction, Futures (of Society)
Furniss, W. Todd – ADE Bulletin, 1975
Focuses attention on means of preparing and improving college staff, and outlines those points which college department heads must consider when evaluating faculty programs. (RB)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Administration, English Curriculum, English Departments
Hartman, Joan E. – ADE Bulletin, 1976
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, English Departments
Neel, Jasper P. – ADE Bulletin, 1976
Attempts to define the role of English in the system of higher education. (RB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, English Departments
Stewart, David H. – ADE Bulletin, 1976
Describes some of the idols of English departments and suggests what must be done to revivify the teaching of college English. (RB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, English Departments
ADE Bulletin, 1974
Contains the results of a recent survey on the employment possibilities for doctoral students about to receive their degrees and those who graduated since 1971 with a Ph. D. in English. (RB)
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Employment Opportunities, English Departments, English Instruction
Ford, James E. – ADE Bulletin, 1978
Describes recruitment programs used by the English departments at Brigham Young University, Hawaii, to make the English major and its majors more visible on campus and to meet the different needs of students; reports that the programs have led to a trebling of department enrollment of majors and minors. (GW)
Descriptors: English Departments, Enrollment Trends, Higher Education, Majors (Students)
Schulz, Max F. – ADE Bulletin, 1978
Describes the evolution of the multiple English department, sets forth "commandments" for English department chairpersons, and points to qualities of the ideal department chairperson. (GW)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Department Heads
Lloyd-Jones, Richard – ADE Bulletin, 1977
Describes the organization and aims of the English curriculum at the University of Iowa. (AA)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, English Curriculum, English Departments, English Instruction
Kolb, Harold H., Jr.; And Others – ADE Bulletin, 1977
Harold H. Kolb, Jr., introduces three historical discussions of graduate education in English. C. Hugh Holman discusses "The Desperate Soldier-Scholars: Graduate Study in English, 1946-1956." Robert Kellogg discusses "The Boom Years: Graduate Education in English, 1955-1968." Fred L. Standley considers "'Living Modernly's Living Quickly': Beyond…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Objectives, English Curriculum, English Departments
Hellstrom, Ward – ADE Bulletin, 1977
Discusses the percentage of students in English classes at th University of Florida who are enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences (39 percent above the freshman year) and suggests ways in which English departments can accomodate the shifting interests of students in the seventies while maintaining high standards. (JM)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Departments, English Instruction, Higher Education
Algeo, John – ADE Bulletin, 1977
Surveys the current situation concerning Ph.D.s in English and the job market, and discusses the ways in which the present reality and the future probability bear upon the graduate English curriculum. (JM)
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, English Curriculum, English Departments, Graduate Study
Hartman, Joan E. – ADE Bulletin, 1988
In a response to the Minnesota Conference on the Future of Doctoral Study in English, discusses how to guide English graduate students through both their graduate study and their professional careers. Emphasizes the need to reinforce the connection between graduate and undergraduate study. (MM)
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, English Departments, English Instruction, Graduate Study
Coney, Mary B.; And Others – ADE Bulletin, 1984
Outlines five stops that can strengthen technical writing courses and programs within departments of English. (HOD)
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Objectives, English Departments, Higher Education
Thompson, Leslie M. – ADE Bulletin, 1973
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, College Students, English Departments
