Spotlights one site where the new curriculum calls the English department at Louisiana State University toward further change: the juncture between the undergraduate and graduate curricula. Illustrates the benefits of adopting a document that articulates curricular goals. Describes a five-year curriculum revision process. Attaches excerpts from a…

This collection of project and program descriptions describes a successful student recruiting method, the features of the United States Air Force Academy's English department, a writing program for the professions, and the writing program at Pennsylvania's Beaver College. (AEA)

Considers what can make a writing program an integral part of the mission of a university so that it does not become a target when budget cuts have to be made. Discusses the role of collaboration in the establishment and operation of the writing program at Cornell University. (RS)

Suggests that the technical and professional writing concentration in the English department at Eastern Michigan University serves as an example of the way Master of Arts (MA) programs often reflect the economy of a particular region. Discusses the MA program at Eastern Michigan University. (RS)

Describes a program in which a department chairperson gains released time for volunteers from a full-time faculty to serve as administrative associates. Discusses such a procedure at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. (AEA)

Discusses Great Britain's largest degree-granting institution and describes it as the world's most successful distance learning operation and most important innovation in the history of higher education since the establishment of the land grant college. Explores the possibility of the program's application in the United States. (AEA)

Describes the new graduate English program at the University of New York, Albany, and its aims. Explains that the program is composed of seven independent areas of study: writing in history; writing theory and practice; rhetoric and composition; critical theory and practice; teaching theory and practice; language and language theory; and literary…

Observes that support for writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) programs remains shallow at American colleges and universities. Describes California State University-San Bernardino's WAC program. Identifies features of the university's program, and describes some of its problems. Argues that WAC will survive as it builds departmental self-interest…

Discusses the preparation of English education graduates in general and of those at the University of Washington in particular. (AEA)

Reflects on the experience of training teachers from non-English disciplines to teach writing by inviting them to take a freshman level, basic writing course. (AEA)

Views the teaching of a traditional English curriculum and the development of extramural cultural programs as potentially equal contributions to the discipline of English and describes a wide assortment of extramural offerings provided by the English department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (AEA)

Describes how the English department at Roger Williams University set out to revise and revive the English major under difficult circumstances during the 1988-89 school year. Shows how the faculty redesigned the curriculum, recruited new majors, and established support programs. (HB)

Describes a two-semester writing program that prepares English majors for professional writing careers in business or industry. (AEA)

Updates an earlier report to underscore the inadvisability of imposing large sections of freshman composition students on reluctant departments and to promote further discussion of the issues raised by the program. Discusses some of the more controversial implications raised by the program. (RS)

Describes the Washington, D.C. Center's internship program for political science and English majors. (AEA)