Critical Look at Institutional Mission, A

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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.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602358430
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Writing Program Administration
Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven
The Writing Program Administration series provides a venue for scholarly monographs and projects that are research- or theory-based and that provide insights into important issues in the field. We encourage submissions that examine the work of writing program administration, broadly defined (e.g., not just administration of first-year composition programs). Possible topics include but are not limited to 1) historical studies of writing program administration or administrators (archival work is particularly encouraged); 2) studies evaluating the relevance of theories developed in other fields (e.g., management, sustainability, organizational theory); 3) studies of particular personnel issues (e.g., unionization, use of adjunct faculty); 4) research on developing and articulating curricula; 5) studies of assessment and accountability issues for WPAs; and 6) examinations of the politics of writing program administration work at the community college.
Books in the Series
Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition edited by Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein, and Michael A. Pemberton (2016)
A Critical Look at Institutional Mission: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators edited by Joseph Janangelo (2016)
A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators edited by Rita Malenczyk, 2nd ed. (2016). First ed., 2013.
Ecologies of Writing Programs: Program Profiles in Context edited by Mary Jo Reiff, Anis Bawarshi, Michelle Ballif, & Christian Weisser (2015)
Writing Program Administration and the Community College by Heather Ostman (2013)
The WPA Outcomes Statement—A Decade Later , edited by Nicholas N. Behm, Gregory R. Glau, Deborah H. Holdstein, Duane Roen, & Edward M. White (2012). Winner of the CWPA Best Book Award
Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges by Jill M. Gladstein and Dara Rossman Regaignon (2012)
GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the 21st Century by Colin Charlton, Jonikka Charlton, Tarez Samra Graban, Kathleen J. Ryan, and Amy Ferdinandt Stolley (2012). Winner of the CWPA Best Book Award




A Critical Look at Institutional Mission
A Guide for Writing Program Administrators
Edited by Joseph Janangelo
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
www.parlorpress.com


Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, USA
© 2016 by Parlor Press
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Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Janangelo, Joseph, editor.
Title: A critical look at institutional mission : a guide for writing program
administrators / edited by Joseph Janangelo.
Description: Anderson, S.C. : Parlor Press, [2016] | Series: Writing Program
Administration | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016031965 (print) | LCCN 2016055314 (ebook) | ISBN
9781602358409 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781602358416 (hardcover : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781602358423 (pdf) | ISBN 9781602358430 (epub) | ISBN
9781602358447 ( ibook) | ISBN 9781602358454 (Kindle)
Subjects: LCSH: Writing centers--Administration--Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
Writing centers--Research--Methodology. | English
language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States | Report
writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States | Academic
writing--Study and teaching--United States | Universities and
colleges--Aims and objectives--United States. | Universities and
colleges--United States--Administration.
Classification: LCC PE1405.U6 C74 2016 (print) | LCC PE1405.U6 (ebook) | DDC
808/.042071173--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016031965
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Writing Program Administration
Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven
Cover image: Patrick Schöpflin. Unsplash. Used by permission.
Copyeditor: Jared Jameson.
Cover design: David Blakesley
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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 for Print Edition
About the Editor


For Yola C. Janangelo and Peter Janangelo
and
Farrell J. Webb


Acknowledgments
I am very grateful to David Blakesley, Colin Charlton, Jared Jameson, Michael Limón, Susan H. McLeod, and Margot Soven for their guidance and direction. All the contributors deserve gratitude for their hard work and generosity. Thanks to Carmella Fiorelli, Nicholas Grosso, Yola C. Janangelo, John Lincoln Schilb, and Farrell J. Webb for responding to a draft of the proposal. Special thanks to Jacqueline Long, Arthur Lurigio, Lester Manzano, Jane Neufeld, and Thomas J. Regan, S.J. at Loyola for their fine character and collegiality.


Introduction: Of Provocations and Possibilities
Joseph Janangelo
O n May 13, 2013, The Chronicle of Higher Education published David Evans’s blog “Chairs and the Big Picture.” Explaining “the chair’s role in advocating for and articulating the institution’s mission at the departmental or divisional level,” Evans argues that institutional mission is both undervalued and underexplored. He writes,
I am certainly aware that many academics think mission statements and their attendant missions are a piece of corporate nonsense, but let me tell you: Accreditors and others who control institutional fates care deeply about them. Our regional accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission, has “Mission and Integrity” as its first criterion for accreditation, and expects its member institutions to pay serious attention to mission in their operations and planning. Boards of trustees, similarly, often come from corporate settings where organizational mission is a key component of operations and, in my experience, expect an administration to put mission at the center of its priorities.
The term institutional mission (hereafter IM) has become central to contemporary academe. On the positive side, it represents markers of identity and hallmarks of accomplishment. Those words denote distinctive institutional history and intellectual heritage, including important traditions of learning and service. IM also evokes a legacy of scholarship and pedagogy that contemporary stakeholders (e.g., faculty and administrators) can use to steward their departments, programs, and initiatives forward.
At many academic institutions, mission connotes vision and purpose. It also reflects philosophy and integrity of practice. As such, IM is a motor for action. By that, I mean mission tells us why we do what we do. As the biggest why, mission can guide institutional action by asking everyone to work together for a shared purpose. Mission is also something of a “universal adapter.” It is designed to work comprehensively, for example in the capacious wording of mission statements, to direct and serve every unit at the school. As a further contribution, IM also signifies something purposively specific: the high-quality education a particular school offers its students. At its best, IM can set an institution apart from others, giving it a distinctive identity and competitive edge for recruiting and retaining high-caliber and dedicated students, faculty, and staff. I