The responsibility for freshman composition programs should be taken from English departments and given to departments of literacy. (JH)

Discusses the issue of hiring part-time faculty to teach college English courses. Suggests several ways to improve the situation. (MM)

Discusses the issue of hiring part-time faculty to teach college English courses. Describes how the English department at Pennsylvania State University was forced to deal with this problem. (MM)

Describes the political dynamics, hierarchy, and rituals of a typical college humanities department. Proposes reorganizing this academic structure, replacing the "humanities" with a philosophy of liberal education. (MM)

Discriminant functional analysis was used to compare structural variables of department size, institution type, and highest degree awarded with academic discipline to determine which accounts for more variance in biology and English department chairpersons' responses to questions concerning their influence. Generally, structural variables…

Recent departmental-level efforts at general education curriculum reform are surveyed. Discussion is given to English departments, which are well suited to lead general education reform, because they can learn from these experiences. (MSE)

Reports on the results of a 1983-84 survey of college departments of English to determine curricular practices in college English departments. (HOD)

At Wayne State University, a two-year research and curriculum effort, the Professional Writing Project (PWP), showed that English departments can better prepare students to write effectively for the workplace and increase writing faculty's research and teaching capabilities through collaborating with industry to plan a professional writing…

Urges college English departments to take a direct interest in what happens in secondary school classrooms and to be prepared to offer pedagogical diversity in both preservice and inservice teacher training. (AEA)

This paper paints the overall picture and contextualizes a project on K-16 articulation in southeastern Massachusetts. The paper first describes the project and then addresses three broad areas: the state climate in higher education in Massachusetts; the regional context of such a project within the southeastern area of the state; and the…

Speech delivered at the Association of Departments of English (ADE) meeting, at the Annual Meeting, Modern Language Association of America (MLA), December 26, 1969, in Denver, Colorado. (DS)

Reports results of student teachers' evaluations of one university's course offerings in the Department of Education and the English department, their English methods course, and the degree to which the two departments worked together. Concludes that cooperation between the two departments could be improved. (FL)

Describes tactics and approaches used by an English department chair in dealing with faculty, administration, and internal faculty strife. (SR)

Considers and analyzes the findings of the Modern Language Association's survey of the changes from 1990 to 1994 in faculty size of doctorate-granting departments of modern language. (HB)

Presents the findings of the Modern Language Association's survey of the changes from 1990 to 1994 in faculty size in doctorate-granting departments of modern language. (HB)