| Name of institution |
Total # students |
1st year students |
Faculty |
F-T load |
Reassigned |
Other compensation |
Other administrators |
Clerical staff |
| University of Akron |
22,000 |
150 sections |
20 TA / 55 Adjuncts |
2/2 |
1/semester |
none |
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| Northern Illinois University |
25,000 |
3200 |
28 instructors, 60 TA, 7 supportive professional staff |
2/3 |
3 per year |
1 month summer salary; extra travel funding to cover WPA conference |
Assistant Director, ESL Coordinator, Networked Writing and Research Coordinator, Writers' Workshop (developmental) Coordinator |
One full time secretary |
| George Mason University |
30,000 |
2400 |
10 ft/tt (6 from comp), 25 ft/ntt, 25 TA, 100 pt/ntt |
3/2 (tt), 4/4 (ntt) |
1 course per semester |
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Associate Director (FT/NTT) with 2/1 course release and $1000 summer stipend |
Share one admin. assistant with other undergraduate programs in the department; undergraduate coordinator (ft/ntt) schedules all composition courses. Also: Adjunct Faculty Committee (tt) hires and reviews all adjunct faculty. |
| Case Western Reserve University |
4,300 (undergrad); 5,600 (grad/prof) |
1100 |
25 TA; 18 Lecturers (FT/NTT); 4 Adjunct; ~45 faculty (general ed. seminars led by faculty + writing support) |
2–2 (TT); 3–3 (Lect); 4–4 (Adj) |
1 course/semester |
$1,500 summer stipend |
Graduate Student Assistant Director (1 teaching unit/semester) |
Share department assistant and assistant for the general education program; all scheduling done by Director of Composition. |
| Marywood University |
1400 undergrads |
400 |
14 |
4/4 |
1 course per semester |
none |
none |
1 work-study student |
| University of Denver |
10,500 (5000 undergrad, 5500 grad) |
1200 |
19 permanent lecturers; a few sections taught by 3rd and 4th year PhD students in English |
0/3/3 (quarter system; no teaching in fall; 15 students per section) |
60% (Director determines own teaching load; currently chooses to teach two courses per year) |
12 month contract; enhanced personal research and travel budget |
Director of the Writing and Research Center |
full time Administrative Assistant. For more information about the program, please see http://www.du.edu/writing |
| University of Maine |
12,000 |
2000 |
21 TAs, 6 adjuncts, comp. director, 1 faculty on a rotating basis |
3/2 |
1 course release per year |
none |
none |
a part-time secretary is shared by the graduate program and the first-year writing program |
| North Dakota State University |
12,000 |
1,800 |
20 TAs, 15–20 Adjuncts (most long-term), 1–3 Tenure-track |
3/2 |
1 per year |
Summer salary occasionally |
No administrators, just a support committee. |
Dept's clerical staff; no one person assigned to the program. |
| Tennessee Tech University |
9700 |
1500 |
7 full-time tenure track teach some FYC; 13 adjuct faculty teach only FYC |
4/4 |
2/2 |
summer stipend (2 credits' worth) |
Writing Center Coordinator. No assistants. |
None. Only dept secretarial staff. |
| Boise State University |
18,000+ |
25 |
1–5 TT faculty; 25 TAs; 8 full-time special lecturers; 40+ adjunct instructors |
3/3; 4/4 special lecturers; 2/1 TAs |
3 courses/year for Director |
$3000 |
2 course/year reassigned time for Associate director |
1 full-time administrative assistant (student issues/placement, program support, etc.) |
| Louisiana State University |
27,000 |
4500 |
35 FTE Instructors, 55 GTAs |
2/2 |
1/1 |
6,000 stipend, 12 mo. salary (19,000) total |
Associate Director: 1/2 time (2/2 course release) |
Full time Coordinator + Scheduling support |
| Yeshiva College |
1400 |
350 |
16 |
3/3 for TT, 3/4 for lecturer |
one course per term |
none |
none |
none (but Eng dept staff member will help) |
| Georgian Court University |
3000 |
275 |
1 FT; 12 adjuncts (1–2 sections each); program director (1–2 sections); 1–2 rotating EN faculty members (1 section) |
4–4 |
1 course release per semester |
hourly summer compensation |
none |
share PT secretary with EN/CM Dept, where the writing program resides |
| University of Louisville |
22,000 |
2600 |
10 tenure-track/5 full-time non-tenure-track/30 GTA/25 part-time |
2–2 |
1 course/semester |
12 month contract (two months salary for summer work) |
3 Assistant Directors (Ph.D. students who receive 1 course release/semester and summer money for summer duties) |
Full-time administrative assistant |
| Drew University, Madison NJ |
2,000 |
420 |
2 F/T; 12–16 P/T |
2–3 (no more than 2–2 P/T) |
1 course/year |
None |
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Share secretary with English Dept |
| Elon University |
5500 (4940 undergraduate) |
1290 |
22 (14 full-time faculty; 6 f-t limited-term; 2 p-t) |
3–3 or 3–1−3 depending on line (4 credit hour courses) |
1 course/semester |
N/A |
N/A |
Program assistant shared with 2 departments; no dedicated clerical staff |
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| Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis |
21,500 undergrads |
85 sections fall semester (first-semester FYC) |
about 60 part-time, 20 full-time lecturers, 2 tenure-track |
3–2 |
1–1 |
none |
one assistant director, a course coordinator for each FYC course (we have four), a coordinator for honors comp, a coordinator for computers and composition (all with release time) |
full-time secretary |
