Making Visible Labor Issues in Writing Across the Curriculum: A Call for Research

Assuming the directorship of a writing across the curriculum (WAC) program, however, opened the author's eyes to a world of contingent-faculty issues that she has not often heard discussed in relation to WAC program work. As adjunctification continues to spread in institutions of higher educati...

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Published in:College composition and communication 2015-09, Vol.67 (1), p.A13-A16
Main Author: LaFrance, Michelle
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
College English
Education
Educational Policy
Faculty Development
Higher education
Pedagogy
Professional development
SPECIAL SECTION: Forum, Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty
Strickland, Donna
Student Needs
Success
Teaching
Tenure
Workloads
Writing
Writing Across the Curriculum
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Summary:Assuming the directorship of a writing across the curriculum (WAC) program, however, opened the author's eyes to a world of contingent-faculty issues that she has not often heard discussed in relation to WAC program work. As adjunctification continues to spread in institutions of higher education, inevitably it troubles the dynamics of WAC programs, as well. But there is almost no research that takes on the labor dynamics of these programs or that seeks to understand the relationships between the material conditions of WAC programs and the pedagogies or best practices long espoused by WAC professionals. It is time to make labor concerns a central component of forthcoming statements in WAC/WID programmatic work and a more central component of research in this subfield of writing studies. Their research might uncover the complexities and contexts of contingency both nationally and in specific sites.
ISSN:0010-096X
1939-9006