Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators
Institutional Practices and Politics
Published on 6. August 2007
315 pages
978-1-60235-018-2 (ISBN)
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Contributors examine the politics of untenured writing program administrator appointments given the demands of writing program administration, and reconciles the tension between WPA position statements and current institutional practice.
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Institutional Practices and Politics
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Institutional Practices and Politics
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Content
- Front Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Edward M. White
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- What is Wrong with THIS Picture?
- Alice Horning
- 1 The Importance of Untenured Writing Administrators to Composition and to English Studies
- Richard C. Gebhardt
- 2 Ethics and the jWPA
- Alice Horning
- 3 Defining Junior
- Suellynn Duffey
- 4 Negotiating the Risks and Reaping the Rewards: Reflections and Advice from a Former jWPA
- Martha A. Townsend
- 5 jWPAs and the Call to Serve
- Ruth Mirtz and Roxanne Cullen
- 6 Labor Relations: Collaring jWPA Desire
- Debra Frank Dew
- 7 The Center Will Not Hold: Redefining Professionalism in the Academy
- Martha D. Patton and Jo Ann Vogt
- 8 Demystifying the Asian-American WPA: Locations in Writing, Teaching, and Program Administration
- Joseph Eng
- 9 Graduate Students Hearing Voices: (Mis)Recognition and (Re)Definition of the jWPA Identity
- Brenda M. Helmbrecht with Connie Kendall
- 10 Redefining Our Rhetorical Situations: jWPAs in the Small College Context
- Rebecca Greenberg Taylor
- 11 Administering Writing Programs in the "Betweens": A jWPA Narrative
- Sandee K. McGlaun
- 12 Fitness for the Occasion: How Context Matters for jWPAs
- Paul Ranieri and Jackie Grutsch McKinney
- Conclusion: Ethical Options for Disciplinary Progress on the Issue of jWPA Appointments
- Debra Frank Dew
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover
