| Name of institution |
Total # students |
1st year students |
Faculty |
F-T load |
Reassigned |
Other compensation |
Other administrators |
Clerical staff |
WPA status |
| University of Akron |
22,000 |
150 sections |
20 TA / 55 Adjuncts |
2/2 |
1/semester |
none |
|
|
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
11,500 (5500 undergrad, 6000 grad) |
1250 |
23 permanent lecturers; a few sections taught by adjunct faculty, mostly 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 teaches two courses per year) |
12 month contract; enhanced personal research and travel budget |
Director of the Writing and Research Center |
full time Office Manager. 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 |
|
| 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 program director:1–2 writing courses per semester plus other EN courses as needed; 1 FT asst. prof.:2–3 writing courses per semester plus other EN courses as needed; 8–10 adjuncts (1–2 sections each); 1–2 rotating EN faculty members (1 section) |
4–4 |
1 course release per semester |
hourly summer compensation |
none |
share PT secretary with EN 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 |
|
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 |
|
| 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 associate 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 |
tenure-track |
| North Dakota State University |
13,300 |
3500 |
12 Tenure/tenure track (mostly in the upper division courses), 20 TAs, 15 adjunct/lecturers |
3/2 |
1 section per year for lower division director, 1 section per year for upper division director |
no direction until tenure |
2 faculty directors, one lower division, one upper division, First-year English Committee and Upper Division Writing committee support directors |
Dept's clerical staff |
|
| The College of Wooster |
1800 |
500 ± |
100 ± |
3/3 (semesters) |
3 |
no |
none |
.825 FTE |
|
| University of Cincinnati |
37,000 |
5,500 |
17 full-time, non-tenure track; 45–50 grad students, 10–15 adjuncts |
4/4/3 for non-tenure track, full-time writing teachers |
one course release each quarter (1/1/1) |
administrative stipend (accounts for summer salary) |
Associate Director (2/2/1 teaching assignment), Graduate Composition Assistant (1/1/0 teaching assignment), Director of the Writing Center (2/2/1 teaching assignment), Director of Placement (no release) |
Full-time Administrative Assistant & Departmental Business Manager handles composition funding issues |
|
| DePaul University |
15,700 undergrads |
23 |
80 |
3/3/3 |
1/quarter |
none |
Associate Director, part-time grad assistant |
none |
|
| Willamette University |
1800 ug |
500 |
~125 |
3–3 |
1–1 |
none |
none |
none |
|
| George Mason University |
30,000 |
2500 |
50 PT/NTT, 28 FT/NTT (4–4 load, salary), 15–20 TA, a few FT/TT faculty |
2–2 (recently lowered from 3–2 for FT/TT faculty) |
1 course (was 2 courses when FT/TT load was 3–2) for comp director |
$2000 stipend (added at the 3–2 to 2–2 switch) |
Assistant director, FT/NTT, released 3 courses from 4–4 load, stipended for summer-session administration |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Onondaga Community College |
11000 |
|
24 full time, 50 part time |
5/5 |
3/3 |
summer per diem of $1200.00 |
No |
|
|
| Murray State University |
10,500 |
1400, 60 sections |
All full-time faculty are in rotation; 2 TA's, 12 adjunct instructors |
4/4 |
1 course release per semester |
$500 summer stipend and extra conference funding |
none |
help from department secretarial staff |
tenure-track |
| University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
16,763 |
3500 |
70 in fall semesters, 60 in spring |
3–2 |
one course release per semester |
$2000 stipend per year |
Two assistant directors: one NTT instructor and one graduate assistant |
None |
Tenure-track |
| West Chester University of PA |
14,500 |
|
14 full-time tenure-track/tenured, 12 adjunct/part time |
4/4 |
3 credits/semester |
none |
Writing Center director, Basic Writing coordinator |
None dedicated |
Tenure-Track |
| University of Central Florida |
59,000 |
4,000 |
60; all tenured/tenure track faculty teach composition; most instructors do. President has funded to replace most adjunct lines with permanent lines, reducing adjuncts from 33 in 2008 to 4 in Spring 2012. About 12–16 graduate students also teach comp each semester. |
Instructors: 4/4 Tenure-track: 3/2 |
Comp, WAC, and Writing Center directors all teach 1/1 |
Usually at least one summer stipend and additional travel funding |
Comp, WAC, and Writing Center all employ instructor-line coordinators who work with the tenured director and the administrative assistant. |
Yes |
Tenured |
| University of Central Oklahoma |
16,000 |
3,000 |
40 |
4/4 |
2/2 |
stipend |
none |
none |
tenure-track |
| Illinois Wesleyan University |
2150 |
560 |
28 |
6 courses/year |
3 courses |
$7500.00 summer stipend |
Writing Center Director |
5 hours/week student asst. |
tenure-track |
| Arizona State University - (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) |
59,794 (Fall 2011) on Tempe campus |
9,254 First time Freshmen; 6,776 transfer students (Fall 2011) |
200 |
4/4 or 5/3 for Full-time contract faculty |
1 course per semester |
2 months summer salary |
Associate Director |
Program Manager |
Tenured Full Profsesor |
| North Carolina State University |
34767 (Fall 2011) |
4697 (Fall 2011) |
60 (approx. 25 graduate teaching assistants; approx. 35 NTT faculty, all but 2 on FT contracts as Lecturers) |
6–9 credit hours (TT) per semester; 12 credit hours (NTT) per semester |
6 credit hours reassigned each semester (1–0 teaching load) |
Summer pay equivalent to .75 time all summer (based on base annual salary) |
1 TT Associate Director (coordinates graduate teaching assistants), 1 NTT Associate Director (coordinates placement, transfer, and exemption concerns), 1 NTT Assistant Director (coordinates professional development for faculty, including annual writing symposium), 1 Graduate Assistant Director (PhD student, helps with program research and assessment) |
1 full-time administrative assistant, shared with department scheduling officer |
Tenured |
| Loyola University Maryland |
3500 (undergrad) |
1050 |
18 |
3–3 |
1–1 |
additional travel |
none |
none |
tenure-track |
| SUNY Binghamton |
12,000 |
16 |
20 TAs, 2 lecturers, 4 VAPs, 4 instructors |
2:2 |
0:1 |
$5,000 summer stipend; $2,000 travel account |
Writing Center Director; Associate Director of FYW; ESL Director |
1 full-time secretary |
tenure-track |
