CONTENTS

From the Editor

The Politics of “Back to Basics”
Paula Johnson

Some Thoughts on Teaching English and on The Madagascan Ordeal
Robert F. Hogan

Reeling and Writhing: Evaluation in Blunderland
Barbara Brothers

Salaries in Graduate English Departments
George J. Worth and James Scally

Average Salaries in Nationally-Rated Graduate English Departments, 1972­76
James Scally

Change and Continuity: Graduate Education in English Since 1945

Introduction
Harold H. Kolb

The Desperate Soldier-Scholars
C. Hugh Holman

The Boom Years
Robert Kellogg

Beyond the Nixonian Debacle
Fred L. Standley

Other Departments…Other Ways

A D.A. Program for Two-Year College Teachers
Jan Cohn

Professional Seminar for Ph.D. Students
Jackson J. Campbell

The Teaching Assistant Dilemma
Maxine C. Hairston

The “Learning Tree”
Marianna W. Davis