The Wyoming Conference Resolution Opposing Unfair Salaries and Working Conditions for Post-Secondary Teachers of Writing

Teaching and the Dilemma of the Personal: Lodoiska's Story

“…Teaching In Media Res Looking at communities of interaction in the field of second and foreign language college composition, it is certainly true that the intersection of macro individual and professional identities has received ample attention. Longstanding discussions of part-time and full-time college composition faculty and the exploitative labor practices they endure (Harris, 2000;Murphy, 2000;Schell, 1998) have given way to related discussion of how such institutional marginalization might be resisted through disciplinary resolve (Robertson, Crowley, & Lentricchia, 1987;Trimbur & Cambridge, 1988); innovation (Trainor & Godley, 1998); cultural and activist practices (Okawa, 2002); pedagogical performances of class, gender, and sexuality (Gibson, Marinara, & Meem, 2000); collaborative reflection with colleagues (Bishop, 2001); and autorepresentation (Fontaine & Hunter, 1993). Nevertheless, although certain researchers focusing on postsecondary ESL have embraced macroidentities such as ''feminist,'' ''nonnative English speaker,'' or ''adjunct faculty,'' the literature has been somewhat reluctant to consider the intersection of the sometimes trivial and sometimes serious aspects of teachers' lives in media res with teaching.…”

Systems Shift: Creating and Navigating Change in Rhetoric and Composition Administration

“…Despite the research on the impact of class size and course load on outcomes (Farrell & Jensen, 2000;Haswell, 2004;Horning, 2007), WPA scholars have not yet researched how decisions about course scheduling and classroom placement are made or how these decisions affect instruction. Although WPAs are responsible for ensuring the working conditions the Wyoming Resolution (Robertson et al, 1987) and Indianapolis Resolution (Cox et al, 2016) articulate, their ability to do so has been hampered by the framing of managerial work as non-bureaucratic . While labor-focused WPA scholarship has addressed managerial concerns like staffing, it has typically done so through case studies of individual programs and accounts from contingent faculty, attending to the qualitative but lacking a quantitative perspective.…”