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Course Pack

• Bousquet, Marc.  “Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers.”  The Minnesota Review n.s. 58-60 (2003).  Click here for online version.
  
• Boyer report: Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities (the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University, 1998).  Click here for online version.
  
• Bullock, Richard.  “In Pursuit of Competence: Preparing New Graduate Teaching Assistants for the Classroom.”  Administrative Problem-Solving for Writing Programs and Writing Centers: Scenarios in Effective Program Management.  Ed. Linda Myers-Breslin.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999.  3-13.
• Carnegie classification system.  Click here for Chronicle of Higher Education article.
• Catalano, Timothy, Will Clemens, Julia Goodwin, Gary McMillin, Jeff White, and Stephen Wilhoit.  “TA Training in English: An Annotated Bibliography.” The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators.  Ed., Irene Ward & William J. Carpenter.  New York: Longman, 2002.  166-181.
• Crowley debate on FYC
  
• Dean, Christopher, Will Hochman, Carra Hood, and Bob McEachern.  “Proposal for Computerized Writing Instruction at Southern Connecticut State University.”  2001?  Click here for online version.
  
• Freedman, James O.  “Defending Higher Education.”  Liberal Education and the Public Interest.  Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2003.  25-53.
• Greene, Linda S., & Margaret N. Harrigan.  “Strategic Priorities and Strategic Funding: Minority Faculty Hiring at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988-2003.”  In What Makes Racial Diversity Work in Higher Education.  Ed. Frank W. Hale, Jr.  Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2004.  232-254.
• Latterell, Catherine G.  “Training the Workforce: Overview of GTA Education Curricula.”  The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators.  Ed., Irene Ward & William J. Carpenter.  New York: Longman, 2002.  139-155.
• Lerner, Neal.  “Writing Center Assessment: Searching for the ‘Proof’ of Our Effectiveness.”  The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship.  Ed. Michael A. Pemberton & Joyce Kinkead.  Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2003.  58-73.
• Levine, Arthur.  “Worlds Apart: Disconnects between Students and their Colleges.”  Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk.  Ed. Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.  169-183.  155-167.
• Maurrasse, David J.  “Introduction,” “Chapter 1: The Mission of Higher Education,” and “Chapter 4: Community in the Roots: Xavier University and New Orleans.”  Beyond the Campus: How Colleges and Universities Form Partnerships with their Communities.  NY: Routledge, 2001.  1-28, 103-144.     Back to top
  
• McClelland, Ben W.  “A New Millennium for the Writing Program: Introducing Authority and Change to Traditional Folks Who Employ Time-Worn Practices.  Administrative Problem-Solving for Writing Programs and Writing Centers: Scenarios in Effective Program Management.  Ed. Linda Myers-Breslin.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999.  167-179.
• Merrow, John.  “The Undergraduate Experience: Survival of the Fittest.”  New York Times, April 24, 2005.  [full text available at ProQuest and Lexis-Nexis.]
• Miller, Hildy.  “Postsmasculinist Directions in Writing Program Administration.”  The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators.  Ed., Irene Ward & William J. Carpenter.  New York: Longman, 2002.  78-90.
• Miller, Richard E.  “A Writing Program’s Assets Reconsidered: Getting Beyond Impassioned Teachers and Enslaved Workers.”  Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 1.2 (2001). 241-249.
• Myers-Breslin, Linda.  “Running a Large Writing Program.”  Administrative Problem-Solving for Writing Programs and Writing Centers: Scenarios in Effective Program Management.  Ed. Linda Myers-Breslin.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999.  180-198.
• Solomon, Denise Haunani and Leanne K. Knobloch (in collaboration with the 1998-1999 Verbal Assessment Committee).  Spring 1999 Communication-B Study: Outcomes Associated with the General Education Communication-B Requirement, September, 2001.  Click here for online version (see "Verbal Assessment Project").
  
• Suro, Roberto and Richard Fry.  “Leaving the Newcomers Behind.”  Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk.  Ed. Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.  169-183.
• Tinberg, Howard.  “Examining Our Assumptions as Gatekeepers: A Two-Year College Perspective.”  Administrative Problem-Solving for Writing Programs and Writing Centers: Scenarios in Effective Program Management.  Ed. Linda Myers-Breslin.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999.  62-69.
• Ward, Irene.  “Developing Healthy Management and Leadership Styles: Surviving the WPA’s ‘Inside Game.’” The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators.  Ed., Irene Ward & William J. Carpenter.  New York: Longman, 2002.  49-67.
• Ward, Irene & Merry Perry.  “A Selection of Strategies for Training Teaching Assistants.”  The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators.  Ed., Irene Ward & William J. Carpenter.  New York: Longman, 2002.  117-138.
• White, Edward M.  “Use It or Lose It: Power and the WPA.”  The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators.  Ed., Irene Ward & William J. Carpenter.  New York: Longman, 2002.  106-113.
• Wiesenfarth, Joseph.  “Problems, Problems, Problems!”  ADE Bulletin, 85. (Winter, 1986): 40-42.
• Workplace discussion

English 706, Spring 2006, David Fleming

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