The Spirit and Influence of the Wyoming Resolution: Looking Back to Look Forward

Autor/inn/en	McDonald, James C.; Schell, Eileen E.
Titel	The Spirit and Influence of the Wyoming Resolution: Looking Back to Look Forward
Quelle	In: College English, 73 (2011) 4, S.360-378 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0994
Schlagwörter	Postsecondary Education; Writing Instruction; Adjunct Faculty; Conferences (Gatherings); Compensation (Remuneration); Teaching Conditions; Standards; Grievance Procedures; Position Papers; Gender Differences; Politics of Education; Graduate Students; Employment Opportunities; College Faculty; Tenure; Labor Problems; Teaching (Occupation); Faculty Workload; Administrators; Wyoming + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Schreibunterricht; Abfindung; Kompensation; Lohnausgleich; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Standard; Positionspapier; Geschlechterkonflikt; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Fakultät; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Berufsproblem; Teaching; Lehrberuf
Abstract	At the 1986 Wyoming Conference on English, a group of graduate students and part-time and tenure-line faculty formulated a statement known as the Wyoming Resolution, a rallying cry to improve composition teachers' pay, benefits, and working conditions. Adopted by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in 1987, the Wyoming Resolution called for CCCC to set professional standards for postsecondary teachers of writing, to create a grievance process, and to establish a procedure for institutional censure if compliance was not met. Only the first goal of the resolution was met, and for many, the professional standards statement to follow--the CCCC "Statement of Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing"--signaled that the profession was becoming less interested in the working conditions of contingent faculty than in the professional concerns of the growing number of tenure-track researchers and writing program administrators (WPAs). Even so, the Wyoming Resolution came to symbolize the beginning of the discipline's serious attention to late 20th-century labor issues in writing instruction. Ironically, the Wyoming Resolution is often ignored or treated only briefly in histories of composition studies. Drawing on their recent interviews with various scholars who were involved, the authors review the history of the highly significant Wyoming Resolution and analyze its subsequent impact on conditions for contingent faculty. (Contains 4 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10