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| ADE Bulletin | 469 |
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Abbott, H. Porter – ADE Bulletin, 1988
Argues that faculty vitality is an essential element in all English departments, and asserts that basic changes in the English field over the last two decades can help create that vitality. (MM)
Descriptors: Department Heads, Educational Change, English Departments, Higher Education
Hernadi, Paul – ADE Bulletin, 1988
In a response to the Minnesota Conference on the Future of Doctoral Study in English, argues that English departments can define future study in English by focusing on the trivium: grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Claims that, taken together, the three disciplines are potentially concerned with all issues involved in how we use words to make, do, and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, English Curriculum, English Departments, English Instruction
Holladay, Sylvia A. – ADE Bulletin, 1988
In a response to the Minnesota Conference on the Future of Doctoral Study in English, asserts that the English faculty in two-year colleges should not be omitted from discussions of graduate study in English. Offers several recommendations for graduate education in English, particularly in relation to the implications for instructors in two-year…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Educational Quality, English Departments, English Instruction
Levine, George – ADE Bulletin, 1984
Argues that (1) even the most radical critics of departmental structures are committed to the perpetuation of English departments and, therefore, will adopt, regardless of potential contradictions, the professional discourse that validates them and (2) that this will be done even though the Babel of contemporary critical discourse makes a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, English Curriculum, English Departments
Harris, Charles B. – ADE Bulletin, 1984
In response to George Levine's argument that the more things change the more they remain the same, the author considers three measures that would promote the value of literary study. (HOD)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, English Curriculum, English Departments
Stewart, David H. – ADE Bulletin, 1984
Relates some of the good and bad of chairing an English department. (HOD)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Decision Making, Department Heads
Adams, Hazard S. – ADE Bulletin, 1983
Offers advice to English department chairs on the behavior of academic departments. (AEA)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Attitudes, Course Organization, Department Heads
ADE Bulletin, 1973
Descriptors: College Instruction, Conference Reports, Educational Change, English Departments
Lewis, L. E. – ADE Bulletin, 1973
Discusses the current administrative problems of English departments due to the cutback of educational funds. (RB)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Department Heads, Educational Economics, English Curriculum
Purves, Alan C. – ADE Bulletin, 1982
Offers examples of ways that college and university departments of English can broaden students' capabilities as readers and critics. (AEA)
Descriptors: College Students, English Curriculum, English Departments, English Instruction
Shuttleworth, Jack – ADE Bulletin, 1982
Suggests and discusses four strategies for English departments to consider in the 1980s: technology, standards, consolidation, and leadership. (AEA)
Descriptors: Competence, Department Heads, English Departments, Higher Education
Schuster, Charles I. – ADE Bulletin, 1982
Discusses the preparation of English education graduates in general and of those at the University of Washington in particular. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Employment Opportunities, English Departments, English Teacher Education
Hussman, Lawrence E. – ADE Bulletin, 1982
Offers advice to English department administrators on how to respond to lawsuits both from within and outside the department. (AEA)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Court Litigation, Employer Employee Relationship, English Departments
Booth, Wayne C. – ADE Bulletin, 1981
Urges the English teaching profession to heal the split between literature and composition teaching and to offer entry-level college students a freshman English program that combines the two disciplines. (AEA)
Descriptors: College English, English Departments, English Instruction, Higher Education
McLeod, Dan; Kenney, Catherine – ADE Bulletin, 1980
Two discussions explore the issue of part-time and temporary teaching appointments in colleges. The first discusses the negative impact these assignments have on the discipline of English. The second recognizes that these appointments are here to stay and offers suggestions for making a bad situation productive. (HTH)
Descriptors: College English, Employment Practices, English Departments, Faculty
