"Assesses the socio-economic and political conditions that surrounded the rise of independent writing programs since the 2008 financial collapse. Looking at institutional conditions and challenges programs have faced in the last ten years as they struggled to stake their turf in a rapidly changing educational environment"--Provided by publisher

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Andrew K. Balkansky; Laura R. Stiver Walsh; Thomas J. Pluckhahn; John F. Chamblee; Veronica P; Veren

Richard N. Matzen Jr., Matthew Abraham

Richard N Matzen; Matthew Abraham; ProQuest (Firm)

Matzen Jr., Richard N.; Abraham, Matthew

Project MUSE (https://muse.jhu.edu/)

Utah State University Press, an imprint of Univeristy Press of Colorado

University Press of Colorado; Utah State University Press

United States, United States of America

Chicago, 2019

Logan, 2019

1, 2019

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Cover 1
Title, Copyright, 2
Contents 6
Foreword: An Invitation to Read for Resilience 8
Introduction: Looking toward an (Inter)Disciplinary Future? 18
1. Documents of Dissent: Hairston¬タルs "Breaking Our Bonds" in Context 34
2. Forging Independence and Innovation in the Midst of Financial Austerity: The Syracuse University Writing Program 42
3. Forces Acting on a Departmental (Re-)Merger: Budgets, Spaces, Disciplines, Identities 53
4. Growing despite Austerity: The Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin 66
5. "And so two shall become one": Being (and Becoming) the School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication 75
6. The Great Recession: Helping and Hurting Writing Faculty in an Independent Writing Program 83
7. Drawing New Lessons from Old Stories: How Economic Arguments Re-Shaped the Values of a Newly Independent Writing Program 96
8. Surviving and Thriving in the Writing Department at Loyola University Maryland 106
9. Thriving through Disruption: Leveraging Alumni Experience to Support a Liberal Arts Writing Major 116
10. Context, Strategy, Identity: A History of Change in the UC Santa Barbara Writing Program 125
11. The Future of Independent Online Writing Programs: The Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock 133
12. A Complex Ecology: The Growth of an Independent Writing Program in the Aftermath of the Great Recession 143
13. Becoming a Social Fact: Weathering the 2008 Financial Crisis at the University of Pennsylvania 156
14. Making a Place for Writing Studies in a Crowded Institutional Landscape 167
About the Authors 178
Index 184
Publisher:Utah State University Press,Published:2019,ISBN:9781607328957,Related ISBN:9781607328940,Language:English,OCLC:1114966148
Weathering the Storm assesses the socioeconomic and political conditions that have surrounded the rise of independent writing programs (IWPs) and departments. Chapter contributors look at the institutional conditions and challenges that IWPs have faced since the 1980s with a focus on enduring the financial collapse of 2008.

Weathering the Storm assesses the socioeconomic and political conditions that have surrounded the rise of independent writing programs (IWPs) and departments. Chapter contributors look at the institutional conditions and challenges that IWPs have faced since the 1980s with a focus on enduring the financial collapse of 2008.
Leading writing specialists at the University of Texas at Austin, Syracuse University, the University of Minnesota, and many other institutions document and think carefully about the on-the-ground obstacles that have made the creation of IWPs unique. From institutional naysayers in English departments to skeptical administrators, IWPs and the faculty within them have surmounted not only negative economics but also negative rhetorics. This collection charts the story of this journey as writing faculty continually make the case for the importance of writing in the university curriculum.
Independence has, for the most part, allowed IWPs to better respond to the Great Recession, but to do so they have had to define writing studies in relation to other disciplines and departments. Weathering the Storm will be of great interest to faculty and graduate students in rhetoric and composition, writing program administrators, and writing studies and English department faculty.
Contributors: Linda Adler-Kassner, Lois Agnew, Alice Batt, David Beard, Davida Charney, Amy Clements, Diane Davis, Frank Gaughan, Heidi Skurat Harris, George H. Jensen, Rodger LeGrand, Drew M. Loewe, Mark Garrett Longaker, Cindy Moore, Peggy O'Neill, Chongwon Park, Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Mary Rist, Valerie Ross, John J Ruszkiewicz, Eileen E. Schell , Madeleine Sorapure, Chris Thaiss, Patrick Wehner, Jamie White-Farnham, Carl Whithaus, Traci A. Zimmerman

2022-03-08