Presents a personalized account of the difficulties administrators of English departments face in maintaining an effective department and still balancing the budget. (RB)

Examines the administrative and organizational implications that Cleanth Brooks methods of criticism hold for modern English departments. (RB)

Suggests that the unionization of English departments under collective bargaining may create more problems than it solves. (RB)

Describes a five-meeting cycle which enables a high school English department to cooperate in making constructive curriculum changes. (DD)

Uses results from a survey of students and faculty at the University of Texas at Austin to criticize emphases within the English department and the university as a whole, particularly the heavy use of teaching assistants in undergraduate instruction. (AA)

Discusses form and content in the relationships between department chairpersons and deans, review committees, vice-presidents, English faculties in high schools, and others in the world beyond the English department. (JM)

Suggests the concept of convention provides a basis for teaching the cross-curricular writing course. Describes an experimental freshman writing course which focused on the written discourse of five disciplines: art history, history, biology, literature, and philosophy. (RAE)

Discusses the process of external reviewing of faculty for tenure and promotion and lists the obligations of the institution requesting the review as follows: timeliness of notice, payment and working conditions, and protection following review. Mentions the reviewer's obligations. (AEA)

Explains how an English department used a self-study report to acquire much-needed additional funding and improvements for its physical plant. (AEA)

Questions whether literary study complements or enriches the teaching of writing. (HOD)

A study of the average salaries earned by professors of English in 1981-82 indicated that full professors averaged $35,390, associate professors $25,015, and assistant professors $19,683. (AEA)

Indicates that stipends for teaching assistants (TAs) are larger now than they have been and that the number of TAs is still considerable. (AEA)

Discusses the role of literature in the English curriculum and the problems facing the English department at the University of Tennessee. (FL)

A study of average salaries of professors in 51 English departments indicated that full professors averaged $30,906; associate professors $21,263; and assistant professors $16,9l7. Differences within ranks corresponded to private v public institutional status and to departmental quality rating. (DF)

The business and technical writing teachers at Iowa State University conducted a public relations campaign within their English department to gain respectability, understanding, and acceptance from their English department colleagues. Their campaign included examples of student work, lists of their course objectives, and explanations of business…