... effectiveness without reducing our students’ performance to a set of abstract, statistical data. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Commentary English Program Assessment and the Institutional Context John M. Ulrich In theory, assessment should...

...Joseph Harris C o m m e n t a r y Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 4, Number 3, © 2004 Duke University Press 357 Thinking Like a Program Joseph Harris For the last quarter century, much of the political and intellectual debate in our...

....” College Composition and Communication 50 : 377 -92. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 6, Number 1, © 2006 Duke University Press 179 Learning to Write, Program Design, and the Radical Implications of Context The End of Composition Studies...

..., and Karen P. Peirce. 2007 . “Becoming the Learner: Collaborative Inquiry, Reflection, and Writing-Program Assessment.” Writing Program Administration 30 , no. 3: 29 -56. Lee, Amy. 2000 . Composing Critical Pedagogies: Teaching Writing as Revision . Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers...

..., this article draws on two extracurricular projects that we coordinate, NuSense , an undergraduate online journal, and Shakespeare after School, a community drama program for children. The skills the student volunteers draw upon to complete these projects include research, editing, writing, analysis, dramaturgy...

... the community outreach creative writing program running in the northern part of its region. Although creative writing courses became popular in adult and community education throughout the 1980s, even in the often more tradi- tional sector of university adult and continuing education, Leeds resisted...

... . “What Do You Need to Start—and Sustain—a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Program?” WPA: Writing Program Administration 15 : 25 -34. Scott, Joan W. 1995 . “The Rhetoric of Crisis in Higher Education.” In Higher Education under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities , ed...

...Gail Stygall A Report from a Writing Program Director in the Trenches: TAs and Unionization Gail Stygall Slaves of public education, Rise and wake a sleeping nation! Break the chains of your privation! For the union makes us strong! Poli Sci Department Strike Song, sung to the chorus...

... and Program Development . New York: Oxford University Press. Bergmann, Linda S. 1998 . “Missionary Projects and Anthropological Accounts: Ethics and Conflict in Writing across the Curriculum.” In Foregrounding Ethical Awareness in Composition and English Studies , ed. Sheryl L. Fontaine and Susan Hunter...

...Richard E. Miller © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 Levine, George. 2001 . “The Two Nations.” Pedagogy 1 : 7 -19. Sledd, James. 1991 . “Why the Wyoming Resolution Had to Be Emasculated: A History and a Quixotism.” JAC 11 : 269 -81. 241 C o m m e n t a r y A Writing Program...

... of these Innovation Awards in 1999 and has been running an internship program in English since.1 How we developed this program, and my rumina- tions on its successes and limitations, is the subject of this essay. First, however, it should be noted that internship programs are neither a short- nor a long-term remedy...

... composition for diverse learners, composition leaders have not succeeded in bringing these theories and guiding practices to bear, in any systematic way, on the teaching of writing at the program level. Notwithstanding the growth in tenure-­line faculty in composition/rhetoric in the past forty years...

...Paul Hanstedt; Gary Hollis; Rachelle Ankney; Hans Zorn; Gordon Marsh The Roanoke College Writing Initiative Grant (WIG) program provides a two-thousand-dollar stipend for non-English Department faculty to teach in the first-year writing program. Faculty is expected to teach three iterations...

... standards in writing. I document the process of building a new writing assessment program, including a writing assessment exam and a remediation program. I discuss our rubric and scoring procedures, samples of student work, and the poor score trends for our exam. I describe the difficulties in working...

...Clarence Chan; Debra Engel; Jacqueline Ross This article describes the unique journey both of a blind student in our Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) Program and of the faculty who taught him as they all navigated through uncharted territories. We were unable to identify any programs that had...

...Elizabeth Brewer; Nora McCook; Kay Halasek This article provides a critical narrative of a flipped professional development program for experienced graduate teaching associates teaching a second-year writing course. We use a narrative approach to demonstrate that decisions about how and what...

... has a long history as a service recipient. The history of the City University of New York (CUNY) disability studies program and target student population is reviewed, enabling readers to understand that the approach CUNY takes may be different from that of other programs in the country. The article...

... of the program be rethought. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 job market English PhD data policy Works Cited Colander David . 2011 . “ Where Do US PhD Economists Get Jobs? ” Working paper . Middlebury, VT : Middlebury College . Grafton Anthony T. Grossman Jim...

... and ample material and affective resources to open institutional spaces for the effective use of ungrading. The article closes with a brief heuristic for writing program administrators and other departmental/university leaders interested in assessing the hospitality of their own program. MVonBergen...