Just a note to say that I agree totally with Doug's revision of my
thoughts here.
On Wed, 5 Apr 1995, Doug Brent wrote:
> A quick comment on Cathy's note that WAC needs a disciplinary home:
>
> Not necessarily disciplinary, but *academic*. A disciplinary home almost
> always implies English, which is more or less problematic depending on
> the attitude of the local English department (and inherently unstable, as
> attitudes tend to change). But writing centres located in Student
> Services etc. are never going to get serious academic recognition and
> have great difficulty offering tenured contracts, supporting research,
> etc. A third alternative is to have them directly supported as a
> separate academic unit under, say, the Vice-President Academic, or
> perhaps as in our case an interdisciplinary faculty. This means that an
> English department that suddenly decides that writing isn't its business
> (perhaps with good reason) can't do much damage.
>
> At the University of Lethbridge, the writing centre is now under
> "ancilliary services," which gives them exactly the same academic status
> as the parking office. Not good.
>
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