Describes a survey conducted by the Modern Language Association of English and foreign language departments' use of tenured and tenure-track, full-time non-tenure-track, and part-time faculty members and graduate teaching assistants in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Reports on professional support, benefits, and…

Explores national trends in community college English departments. (RB)

Considers a variety of topics, including the shortage of jobs for graduates of English doctoral programs, uses of graduate assistants, academic standards for graduate degrees, English department hiring practices, and ways faculty members can educate and be educated by new young instructors. (GW)

Outlines responsibilities of an English department chairperson in many areas, including writing promotion and tenure recommendations, explaining the department's activities to the administration, creating and maintaining an effective environment, creating a sense of individual dignity and worth among faculty members, developing a sense of…

Argues that the integration of computers into English departments will have an immediate and significant impact on the social systems and communications within those academic communities. Suggests ways of responsibly distributing and using computer resources. (MM)

Reflects on several issues confronting an English department chair, including part-time faculty, adequate writing programs, curriculum reform, and resource allocation. (MM)

Describes the Language Resources for Management major offered by Ferrum College. Explains how the major emphasizes traditional values that are congruent with current economic and social realities. (EL)

Relates the experiences and efforts of a two-year college faculty to promote the value of literary study. (HOD)

Averages the high, low, average, and median salary figures by rank for the faculty members of 84 responding departments of the 106 listed in "An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Humanities." (CRH)

Describes a two-semester writing program that prepares English majors for professional writing careers in business or industry. (AEA)

Cautions against rapid curricular reform that overturns the value of the Anglo-American literary and cultural heritage in English curriculums. (RB)

Recommends the improvement of English teacher training programs that would include a focus on developing sensitivity to language in prospective English teachers. (AEA)

Examines how English department faculty might demystify the job placement process for graduate students by providing candidates with a way of imagining their professional identities. Asks whether faculty expectations and fantasies escalate student anxieties and induce elitist, overbearing prose. (TB)

Presents data on trends in the academic job market, placement rates for PhDs inside and outside the academy, and levels of job satisfaction for those with doctorates. Includes samples of information available from the Modern Language Association and a bibliography of print and online publications that they recommend for planning a career in…