Writing Program Administration At Small Liberal Arts Colleges

Author : Jill M. Gladstein
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602353069
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges written by Jill M. Gladstein and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AT SMALL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES presents an empirical study of the writing programs at one hundred small, private liberal arts colleges. Jill M. Gladstein and Dara Rossman Regaignon provide detailed information about a type of writing program not often highlighted in the scholarly record and offer a model for such national, multi-institutional research.

Author : Nathan W. Henton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First-year Writing Program Assessment at Small Liberal Arts Colleges written by Nathan W. Henton and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project examines first-year writing program assessment practices at small liberal arts colleges and universities in an effort to understand how these practices resemble or diverge from prevailing scholarship on writing program assessment. There is extensive literature on best practices in writing program assessment, but nearly all of it by scholars and researchers working at public comprehensive universities who assume that type of institution as their model. At the same time, scholarship on writing program assessment at small liberal arts institutions is scant, amounting to fewer than ten publications in the last twenty years, even as these schools are structurally and philosophically different enough from public comprehensive universities that prevailing best program assessment practices often do not fit their contexts and needs. Small liberal arts universities are historically important to higher education in United States, remain numerically significant, and serve hundreds of thousands of students per year. To better understand how they engage with bet practices in writing program assessment, the author distributed a survey to more than 120 institutions, ultimately receiving responses from 42. Using these responses and in-depth interviews with the directors of first-year writing programs at three other small liberal arts universities, the author tested his hypothesis that these schools are either not engaging in writing program assessment or are not doing so in ways that are consistent with best practices. The combined results ultimately reveal that (1) the responding schools are shifting, including in their approaches to first-year writing and in their assessment of those programs; (2) many assessment projects show signs of interference from upper-level administrators; and (3) these institutions are engaging in writing program assessment, but often in ways that are out of line with prevailing scholarship. The study examines the possible reasons for these themes, makes suggestions for how the directors of first-year writing programs at small institutions can gain better control of and improve their program assessment efforts and for how program assessment scholars might consider the small liberal arts experience, and closes with suggestions for further research.

Author : Heather Ostman
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602353611
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Program Administration and the Community College written by Heather Ostman and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the history of the community college in the United States to current issues and concerns facing writing programs and their administrators and instructors, Writing Program Administration and the Community College offers a comprehensive look into writing programs at public two-year institutions.

Author : Susan H. McLeod
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602350094
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Program Administration written by Susan H. McLeod and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-03-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference guide provides a comprehensive review of the literature on all the issues, responsibilities, and opportunities that writing program administrators need to understand, manage, and enact, including budgets, personnel, curriculum, assessment, teacher training and supervision, and more. Writing Program Administration also provides the first comprehensive history of writing program administration in U.S. higher education. Writing Program Administration includes a helpful glossary of terms and an annotated bibliography for further reading.

Author : Bryna Siegel Finer
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607326272
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Program Architecture written by Bryna Siegel Finer and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Program Architecture offers an unprecedented abundance of information concerning the significant material, logistical, and rhetorical features of writing programs. Presenting the realities of thirty diverse and award-winning programs, contributors to the volume describe reporting lines, funding sources, jurisdictions, curricula, and other critical programmatic matters and provide insight into their program histories, politics, and philosophies. Each chapter opens with a program snapshot that includes summary demographic and historical information and then addresses the profile of the WPA, program conception, population served, funding, assessment, technology, curriculum, and more. The architecture of the book itself makes comparison across programs and contexts easy, not only among the programs described in each chapter but also between the program in any given chapter and the reader’s own program. An online web companion to the book includes access to the primary documents that have been of major importance to the development or sustainability of the program, described in a “Primary Document” section of each chapter. The metaphor of architecture allows us to imagine the constituent parts of a writing program as its foundation, beams, posts, scaffolding—the institutional structures that, alongside its people, anchor a program to the ground and keep it standing. The most extensive resource on program structure available to the field, Writing Program Architecture illuminates structural choices made by leaders of exemplary programs around the United States and provides an authoritative source of standard practice that a WPA might use to articulate programmatic choices to higher administration. Contributors: Susan Naomi Bernstein, Remica Bingham-Risher, Brent Chappelow, Malkiel Choseed, Angela Clark-Oates, Patrick Clauss, Emily W. Cosgrove, Thomas Deans, Bridget Draxler, Leigh Ann Dunning, Greg A. Giberson, Maggie Griffin Taylor, Paula Harrington, Sandra Jamieson, Marshall Kitchens, Michael Knievel, Amy Lannin, Christopher LeCluyse, Sarah Liggett, Deborah Marrott, Mark McBeth, Tim McCormack, John McCormick, Heather McGrew, Heather McKay, Heidi A. McKee, Julianne Newmark, Lori Ostergaard, Joannah Portman-Daley, Jacqueline Preston, James P. Purdy, Ben Rafoth, Dara Regaignon, Nedra Reynolds, Shirley Rose, Bonnie Selting, Stacey Sheriff, Steve Simpson, Patricia Sullivan, Kathleen Tonry, Sanford Tweedie, Meg Van Baalen-Wood, Shevaun Watson, Christy I. Wenger, Lisa Wilkinson, Candace Zepeda

Author : Joseph Janangelo
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602358435
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Look at Institutional Mission written by Joseph Janangelo and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relevance of institutional mission to writing program administration and writing center direction. It helps WPAs and writing center directors understand the challenges and opportunities mission can pose to their work. It also examines ways WPAs and writing center directors can work with and against mission statements and legacy practices to do their best work.

Author : Rita Malenczyk
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602358494
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators 2e written by Rita Malenczyk and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators (2nd Edition) presents the major issues and questions in the field of writing program administration. The collection provides aspiring, new, and seasoned WPAs with the theoretical lenses, terminologies, historical contexts, and research they need to understand the nature, history, and complexities of their intellectual and administrative work.

Author : David S. Martins
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1492012912
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Writing Program Administration written by David S. Martins and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While local conditions remain at the forefront of writing program administration, transnational activities are slowly and thoroughly shifting the questions we ask about writing curricula, the space and place in which writing happens, and the cultural and linguistic issues at the heart of the relationships forged in literacy work. Transnational Writing Program Administration challenges taken-for-granted assumptions regarding program identity, curriculum and pedagogical effectiveness, logistics and quality assurance, faculty and student demographics, innovative partnerships and research, and the infrastructure needed to support writing instruction in higher education. Well-known scholars and new voices in the field extend the theoretical underpinnings of writing program administration to consider programs, activities, and institutions involving students and faculty from two or more countries working together and highlight the situated practices of such efforts. The collection brings translingual graduate students at the forefront of writing studies together with established administrators, teachers, and researchers and intends to enrich the efforts of WPAs by examining the practices and theories that impact our ability to conceive of writing program administration as transnational. This collection will enable writing program administrators to take the emerging locations of writing instruction seriously, to address the role of language difference in writing, and to engage critically with the key notions and approaches to writing program administration that reveal its transnationality.

Author : Mary Jo Reiff
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602355134
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecologies of Writing Programs written by Mary Jo Reiff and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecologies of Writing Programs: Profiles of Writing Programs in Context features profiles of exemplary and innovative writing programs across varied institutions. Situated within an ecological framework, the book explores the dynamic inter-relationships as well as the complex rhetorical and material conditions that writing programs inhabit—conditions and relationships that are constantly in flux as writing program administrators negotiate constraint and innovation.

Author : Leigh Graziano
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 164642364X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Administrative Work Visible written by Leigh Graziano and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Administrative Work Visible brings together voices from graduate students, associated faculty, administrative staff, and tenured and tenure-track faculty at community colleges, regional state universities, liberal arts colleges, private colleges, and research-intensive institutions across the country to speak to the challenges, both named and unnamed, faced by those who do writing program administration work. These authors call explicit attention to this work and examine WPAs’ lived labor experiences and research methodologies to truly understand the scope of lived WPA labor. The collection has three parts, each of which focuses on the most confounding challenges facing WPAs as well as the most compelling sites of their contributions to administration, labor in higher education, and the discipline’s collective obligation to forwarding the goals of social justice and advocacy: Advocating through Representations of WPA Labor, Advocating by Accounting for Time and Labor, and Advocating in and through Complex Institutional Contexts. The chapters use data to share and track the work functions, job titles, grand narratives, program assessments, tenure and promotion, email practices, and more undertaken by WPAs in their administrative capacities. Chapters also surface narratives for future data and studies to be done by other scholars. By taking up and answering questions about the range of WPA work—and the invisibility of much of that work—Making Administrative Work Visible creates avenues toward accounting for and acknowledging the complex activity systems in which WPAs lead the work of the university and advocate for data-driven strategies needed to sustain this foundational area of higher education. Contributors: Kamila Albert, Brooke Anderson, Sheila Carter-Tod, Amy Cicchino, Ana Cortés Lagos, Kristi Murray Costello, Jennifer Cunningham, Ryan Dippre, Kimberly Emmons, Genevieve García de Müeller, Jill Gladstein, Caleb González, Michael Healy, Lyra Hilliard, Kristine Johnson, Seth Kahn, Rita Malenczyk, Troy Mikanovich, Lilian Mina, Angela Mitchell, Greer Murphy, Kate Navickas, Michael Neal, Patti Poblete, Jan Rieman, Heather Robinson, Katelyn Stark, Mary Stewart, Natalie Stillman-Webb, Lizbett Tinoco, Lisa Tremain, Martha Wilson Schaffer