Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics

Abstract

Edited by Debra Frank Dew and Alice Horning Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition Edited by Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-016-8 (paperback, $30.00); 978-1-60235-017-5 (hardcover, $60.00); 978-1-60235-018-2 (PDF, $19.99) © 2007 by Parlor Press. 316 pages, with notes, bibliography, and index. Bookstores : Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book Untenured Faculty As Writing Program Administrators examines the politics of junior faculty appointments to positions as writing program administrators from historical, contextual, and personal perspectives. A central aim of this provocative book is to accept and reconcile the tension between the Council of Writing Program Administrators’ position statement and current institutional practices. Contributors include graduate students full of desire and ambition, untenured faculty who actively pursued administrative appointments (jWPAs) and now reflect on their decisions, and senior administrators whose experience authorizes their arguments for or against jWPA appointments. The collection brings theory to bear on the jWPA situation as the chapters move beyond victim narratives to examine these controversial issues head on. Contributors Roxanne Cullen, Debra Frank Dew, Suellynn Duffey, Joseph Eng, Rebecca Taylor Fremo, Richard C. Gebhardt, Brenda M. Helmbrecht, Alice Horning, Connie Kendall, Sandee K. McGlaun, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Ruth Mirtz, Martha D. Patton, Paul Ranieri, Martha A. Townsend, Jo Ann Vogt, and Edward M. White. About the Editors Debra Frank Dew is an assistant professor of English and director of the writing program at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where she has directed the program since 2000. Alice S. Horning is a professor of rhetoric and linguistics at Oakland University, where she has directed the Rhetoric Program since 1998.