Address delivered at the Association of Departments of English (ADE) Seminar at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, June 22-26, 1970. (DS)

Special Issue

Describes a program in which a department chairperson gains released time for volunteers from a full-time faculty to serve as administrative associates. Discusses such a procedure at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. (AEA)

Describes the efforts of three college English departments to train their undergraduate and graduate students to teach writing. (HOD)

Describes one school's plan for mixed-ability teaching that utilizes the knowledge, skills, and experiences of all English department members by providing an integrated and coherent curriculum pattern.

Offers suggestions for use in establishing undergraduate career guidance programs in English departments. (AEA)

Contends that rhetorical study is the key to the integration of reading and writing in the college English department and discusses problems created by pigeonholing literature by periods and genres. (DD)

Instead of being encouraged to act in a professional manner, graduate students are continually reminded of their professional inferiority by the English department. (HOD)

Argues that a paradox exists in humanities departments when such departments, which are the custodians and beneficiaries of literacy, fail to concern themselves with reading, writing, and pedagogy. (DF)

Discusses college English faculty in terms of the increase in temporary and part-time appointments, limitations on mobility, teaching assignments, and sabbatical leaves. (HOD)

Describes the management appropriate to different kinds of new curricula within the English program and urges the department chair to assume intellectual, as well as managerial leadership of the department. (HOD)

Exposes the myth of the department chairperson as omnipotent. Demonstrates that by identifying the common interest of the myriad components of an English department, a chairperson can unify them into a successful, dynamic department by power of the faculty members themselves. (HTH)

Examines differences between a department chairperson and a department head, changes in the author's English department since he became department chairperson, ways a chairperson can gain departmental support for proposals, and problems and gratifications of being a department chairperson. (GT)

Presents the findings of a questionnaire survey of 140 college and university English departments regarding courses in children's literature. (DD)

Concludes that a combination of a writing sample and an objective test should be used to place students in freshman composition courses. (DD)