Students who have more training in reading, writing, and analysis are better off throughout their college careers and in their lives after college. Depriving them of the opportunity to work on their writing does them a disservice.
To what extent is my role to be the manager of the decision-making process, and to what extent am I allowed to have an individual opinion on any given issue as a faculty member in the department? How do I balance the two (or more) roles I have?
What’s a way to boost majors and credit hours, bring increased attention to the English department, and excite faculty? A celebration called “English Week” brings all these benefits and more,…
More and more seems to be expected of university faculty in all areas of our academic lives—research, teaching, and service. This is nowhere more true than in a humanities department,…
Like a lot of departments we tend to aim our programming at a type of student that I will call the Classic Major. If we are aiming to develop both depth and breadth of knowledge in our students, this is the kind of student that we are looking for. However, these majors are now in the minority, at least at my institution. But we have many more of what I will call the New Major. If there is a unifying principle to the category of the New Major, it is that many of these students identify their main interest as creative writing.
The story of the unemployable English major is both powerful and damaging, since students are more than ever concerned that their choice of degree will lead to successful employment—reasonably so…
At the 2015 ADE-ADFL Summer Seminar East, Lina Insana (University of Pittsburgh) and Emily Todd (Westfield State University) ran a discussion group on the challenges of recruiting and retaining majors….
Are you getting questions about the economic value of majors? Using United States Census Bureau data from the American Communities Survey, the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce…