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RE: Identity crisis
Dear All,
A question. Regardless of whether you are part of the English
Dept. or Rhetoric and Writing Departments or Carl's Used and Deflated
Dodge Dart Service Department, I'm interested in knowing how you and your
centers as officially classified. In that nifty schematic chart that
administrators like to pull out occasionally, are your writing centers
slotted under Administrative Affairs, Academic Affairs, or Student
Affiars catagories (no smirking, please)? I know Dave Healy or somone
did a survey last year determining how many of us are hired under faculty
contracts as opposed to other kinds of contracts. At some colleges, the
kind of department you direct determines the kind of contract you are
issued (as does my college)..........katie
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Katherine M. Fischer Box 1569 319-588-8115
English Department Clarke College 319-588-6445
Writing Center Dubuque IA 52001 kfischer@keller.clarke.edu
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On Wed, 7 Dec 1994 EDELNANT@wartburg.edu wrote:
> In reply to you two good people (and, I'm sure others) at WWU:
> I am the only faculty/staff person in our writing center. The others
> are work-study students. I am faculty, but that came about because I
> was hired first to teach, then we opened the writing center. The
> writing center functions under the auspices of WAC, so is a campus-
> wide service not affiliated with any particular department. However,
> since I teach in the English and Communication arts depts., faculty
> and students assume there's a connection. I am not on a tenure line;
> I'm on a term appointment, which, of course, leaves me feeling a
> bit insecure. But for now, it's o.k. Does that help? Good luck.
> Vicki Edelnant, Writing Center Director,
> WAC Coordinator
> Wartburg College
> Waverly, Iowa 50677
> Edelnant@Wartburg.edu
>