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The authors use three frameworks of resilience to analyze interviews with faculty from two-year colleges: individual, psychosocial, and design resilience. They describe behaviors and structures that shape the resilience of English departments in two-year colleges and suggest a model for sustained departmental and disciplinary resilience.

Together, these four essays by Mark Reynolds, Emily Suh, Cheri Lemieux Spiegel and Mark Blaauw-Hara, and Jeff Andelora, offer additional insights and resources for graduate programs and two-year college English departments seeking to implement the “Guidelines” principles in their local contexts. We anticipate that this symposium will further a much-needed dialogue about how two-year college English teachers are prepared.

This essay and the teaching externship it describes grew out of our attempt to respond to gaps in two-year college English instructor preparation, particularly in basic writing, at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska.