Critical Look at Institutional Mission, A: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators

Critical Look at Institutional Mission, A: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators

by Joseph Janangelo (Editor)
Critical Look at Institutional Mission, A: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators

Critical Look at Institutional Mission, A: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators

by Joseph Janangelo (Editor)

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781602358430
Publisher: Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date: 09/01/2016
Series: Writing Program Adminstration
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 262
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Joseph Janangelo is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago and Past President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators and. He co-edited Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administering Writing Programs with Kristine Hansen and Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on Teacher Change. His work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, College English, The Writing Center Journal, and WPA: Writing Program Administration.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | Introduction: Of Provocations and Possibilities - Joseph Janangelo | Part I: Connecting and Contending | 1 Community Engagement and Authentic Writing: Institutional Mission as Centripetal and/or Centrifugal Force - Dominic DelliCarpini | 2 Transcending Institutional Boundaries and Types: Undergraduate Research - Joyce Kinkead | 3 Strategic Assessment: Using Dynamic Criteria Mapping to Actualize Institutional Mission and Build Community - Nicholas N. Behm | 4 Creating a Program of Success for Underrepresented Students at Research Institutions - Farrell J. Webb and Anita R. Cortez | Part II: Designing and Discerning | 5 Out of the Ivory Tower and into the Brand: How the New Two-Year College Mission Shapes the Faculty-Manager - Jeffrey Klausman | 6 The Pen and the Drone: Manumotive Writing Programs and the Professional Imagination at West Point - Jason Hoppe | 7 The BYU English Department's Future Scholars Program: Planning for a Faculty to Match the Institutional Mission - Kristine Hansen | 8 Designing and Delivering General Education Curriculum at a Small Liberal Arts College - Anita M. DeRouen | Part III: Relating, Reflecting, and Resisting | 9 When Fantasy Themes Collide: Implementing a Public Liberal Arts Mission in Changing Times - Rita Malenczyk and Lauren Rosenberg | 10 Negotiating Institutional Missions: Writing Center Tutors as Rhetorical Actors - Andrea Rosso Efthymiou and Lauren Fitzgerald | 11 People Make the Place: Using an Evolving Mission as a Secondary School Teacher and Program Development Tool - Andrew Jeter | 12 Same-Sex Marriage at a Jesuit University: Institutional Integrity and Social Change - Joseph Janangelo | Afterword - Steve Price | Contributors | Index | About the Editor
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