How Can You Teach Composition Without Adjuncts or Tenure Lines?

Academe | November 1, 2006| | Copyright

In an English composition program that depends primarily on per-course teaching, moving toward full-time positions comes first, even if they aren't tenure track.

In the 1990s at Appalachian State University, as at many other colleges and universities, the balance shifted in the writing program. Before then, English composition courses had been taught by tenure-track faculty members, but now most composition courses are taught by non-tenure-track faculty members. When Georgia Rhoades took over the Appalachian program in 1998, non-tenure-track faculty members were held to a maximum course load ...

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