Discusses the current administrative problems of English departments due to the cutback of educational funds. (RB)

Address presented at the 1969 Seminar in Albuquerque, New Mexico of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), an affiliate of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). (DS)

Paper presented at Annual Convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Milwaukee, Wis., November 29, 1968).

Discusses the need for a reformed English curriculum. (HOD)

Offers examples of ways that college and university departments of English can broaden students' capabilities as readers and critics. (AEA)

Suggests and discusses four strategies for English departments to consider in the 1980s: technology, standards, consolidation, and leadership. (AEA)

Speculates on the current and future state of composition scholarship and instruction. Predicts that writing will return to the center of liberal education. (HTH)

Discusses the preparation of English education graduates in general and of those at the University of Washington in particular. (AEA)

Offers advice to English department administrators on how to respond to lawsuits both from within and outside the department. (AEA)

Urges the English teaching profession to heal the split between literature and composition teaching and to offer entry-level college students a freshman English program that combines the two disciplines. (AEA)

Discusses why technical writing should not be taken out of the English department and be placed in an engineering department or any other technical department. (HM)

Suggestions for teacher-oriented supervision of classroom practices, development of new courses, and grading and assignment policies are discussed. (HTH)

Two discussions explore the issue of part-time and temporary teaching appointments in colleges. The first discusses the negative impact these assignments have on the discipline of English. The second recognizes that these appointments are here to stay and offers suggestions for making a bad situation productive. (HTH)

Discusses the challenge of answering governmental calls for assessment and the necessity of maintaining disciplinary integrity. Suggests that there are virtues and values worth considering in the development of assessment mechanisms for English departments. (TB)