The social/political issues facing university English departments in South Africa include problems of identity and definition, the need for instruction within the context of social and political history, the problems of cultural relativism, the corrosive implications of Black subordination, and the complex alternatives of private and public…

Includes a comment by Ann Berthoff on Ross Winterowd's "The Purification of Literature and Rhetoric," with a response by Winterowd. Also includes Jeanie C. Crain's comment on "The Wyoming Conference Resolution: Opposing Unfair Salaries and Working Conditions for Post-Secondary Teachers of Writing." (MM)

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)

Presents results of poll of 13 English departments of Ivy League and Seven Sister colleges and universities undertaken in order to offer high school librarians an up-to-date checklist of basic titles that should be included in their collections. Fifty-three authors cited and a bibliography of 51 recommended titles are included. (EJS)

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)

For one educator, an assistant professor of English with a specialization in writing, the short but dramatic move "up the block" from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to DePaul University eight miles north occasioned an adjustment to a radically different institutional personality and student body, despite similar street…

Designing a senior seminar as a "capstone" course for English majors provided an educator the opportunity to devise a course that might provide the majors and anyone who teaches the course an experience of what Paulo Freire calls "liberatory education." According to the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education…

In a personal narrative reflecting on 27 years of teaching, an adjunct faculty member realizes that she knows quite a bit firsthand about the adjunct. Judith Gappa and David Leslie, in their 1993 book, "The Invisible Faculty," state that budgets are balanced and classes assigned on the assumption that 20 to 50% of all undergraduate…

These Literacy across the Curriculum materials are designed to support schools in England that have already done considerable work on literacy across the curriculum as well as those that are just starting. The training pack contains notes for 13 possible units of training. This booklet accompanies the training which introduces schools to the…

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