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ASU Against 5/5

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Dan Collins
11 years ago

poor policy, poor educational practice, exploitive

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Craig Gingrich-Philbrook
11 years ago

It's important that you recognize how badly this reflects upon ASU's national reputation. This is obviously an unconscionable load for a composition instructor.

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James Zeigler
11 years ago

In the wake of No Child & Race to the Top altering secondary ed to the profound detriment of students' writing abilities, ASU makes the unconscionable decision to make successful composition instruction virtually impossible.

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James Zeigler
11 years ago

In the wake of No Child & Race to the Top altering secondary ed to the profound detriment of students' writing abilities, ASU makes the unconscionable decision to make successful composition instruction virtually impossible.

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Wendell Ricketts
11 years ago

I've been an adjunct for nearly 5 years. I don't know what's worse here: the offensive notion that there’s nothing wrong with pitilessly exploiting instructor labor or the dangerous and moronic idea that this plan will not result in lowered educational standards further and a Darwinian selection—any student who needs more help, more attention, more time is going to be kicked to the curb.

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Wendell Ricketts
11 years ago

I've been an adjunct for nearly 5 years. I don't know what's worse here: the offensive notion that there’s nothing wrong with pitilessly exploiting instructor labor or the dangerous and moronic idea that this plan will not result in lowered educational standards further and a Darwinian selection—any student who needs more help, more attention, more time is going to be kicked to the curb.

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Eric Margolis
11 years ago

I'm a sociologist and professor at ASU and this pure exploitation of labor as well as poor educational practice.

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Eric Margolis
11 years ago

I'm a sociologist and professor at ASU and this pure exploitation of labor as well as poor educational practice.

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Patricia Tehan
11 years ago

This plan will only result in negative outcomes: lower classrom quality, lower attention for individual students, lower overall standards, lower student outcomes, and higher staff turnover.

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Patricia Tehan
11 years ago

This plan will only result in negative outcomes: lower classrom quality, lower attention for individual students, lower overall standards, lower student outcomes, and higher staff turnover.

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Jennifer Michael
11 years ago

As a professor of English at another university, I express my outrage at this pedagogically unsound decision, which violates MLA guidelines among others.

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Catherine Warrick
11 years ago

Writing is an essential skill, and many college students lack it. Teaching writing, and teaching it well, should be a top priority in any university curriculum. ASU should be ashamed of its plan to further devalue the work of instructors.

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Catherine Warrick
11 years ago

Writing is an essential skill, and many college students lack it. Teaching writing, and teaching it well, should be a top priority in any university curriculum. ASU should be ashamed of its plan to further devalue the work of instructors.

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Sakina Bryant
11 years ago

As a GWAR Coordinator for the CSU system (a system-wide, upper-division writing literacy coordinator), what you are proposing is pedagogically unsound for student literacy gains. I will not even speak to the labor exploitation implicit in this move; I will, however, speak from the position of a literacy coordinator for California's largest state university system, a system commensurate with ASU. Therefore, I staunchly oppose this move based upon pedagogical grounds and note that it defies all recommendations for the maximum course load composition teachers ought to hold for any student literacy advancements (3-4 classes of no more than 18 students is the NCTE's own recommendation and what most universities that care about their students adhere to). Obviously, there are auxiliary labor concerns here too that are troubling.

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Gray Sweeney
11 years ago

cut the pay of the lowest paid hardest working faculty while hireing more special assistants to the president and giving him a $90,000 per year pay raise. Its the corporate model of the new American University, aka Walmart U.

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Susan Schorn
11 years ago

My son is heading to college next year. I wouldn't even consider sending him to an institution that so obviously disdains writing instruction and basic fairness in the workplace.

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Eileen E. Schell
11 years ago

I am former WPA and Department Chair and also have published and organized extensively on the issue of contingent labor. This is exploitation pure and simple. You don't ask university employees to teach more classes for the same money. This is a shameful proposal, and it must be stopped. The quality of teaching and education at ASU will also be affected if this goes forward. i"m also curious how many of these instructors are women? Is there a gendered dimension to this as well?

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Eileen E. Schell
11 years ago

I am former WPA and Department Chair and also have published and organized extensively on the issue of contingent labor. This is exploitation pure and simple. You don't ask university employees to teach more classes for the same money. This is a shameful proposal, and it must be stopped. The quality of teaching and education at ASU will also be affected if this goes forward. i"m also curious how many of these instructors are women? Is there a gendered dimension to this as well?

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Ari Friedlander
11 years ago

ASU should be hiring more instructors, not exploiting it's already overworked employees.

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Courtney Werner
11 years ago

As a WPA always in need of FYC instructors, I understand how many sections need to be taught and how far the budget must be stretched. However, these needs should not outweight the needs of our instructors, NTT or TT. A 5/5 course load for FYC is unbearable and takes us back to the early days of English A lecture halls with hundreds of essays needing to be graded, very little time for anything but grading, and a pedagogy that suffers when simply getting through the workload is the focus of the instructor. even I cannot condone this 5/5 teaching load.