Welch, Nancy, editorScott, Tony, editorUtah State University Press, publisher2016-05-252016-05-252016http://hdl.handle.net/10217/172920Includes bibliographical references and index.How neoliberal political economy shapes writing assessments, curricula, teacher agency, program administration, and funding distribution. How neoliberal political economy dictates direction of scholarship, because the economic and political agenda shaping the terms of work, the methods, and the ways of assessing writing also shapes directions of scholarship.--Provided by publisher.Our Trojan horse: outcomes assessment and the resurrection of competency-based education / Chris W. Gallagher -- Confessions of an assessment fellow / Deborah Mutnick -- First-year composition course redesigns: pedagogical innovation or solution to the "cost disease"? / Emily J. Isaacs -- Who's coming to the composition classroom: K-12 writing in and outside of common core state standards / Marcelle M. Haddix and Brandi Williams -- The national writing project in the age of austerity / Tom Fox and Elyse Eidman-Aadahl -- Occupy basic writing: pedagogy in the wake of austerity / Susan Naomi Bernstein -- Austerity behind bars: the "cost" of prison writing programs / Tobi Jacobi -- Buskerfest: the struggle for space in public rhetorical education / Mary Ann Cain -- First-year writing and the angels of austerity: a re-domesticated drama / Nancy Welch -- What happens when ideological narratives lose their force? / Jeanne Gunner -- Composition's dead / Ann Larson -- Austerity, contingency, and administrative bloat: writing programs in an age of feast and famine / Eileen Schell -- Beyond marketability: locating teacher agency in the neoliberal university / Shari Stenberg -- Animated by the entrepreneurial spirit: austerity, dispossession, and composition's last living act / Tony Scott -- Afterword: Hacking the body politic / Lil Brannon.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Political aspects -- United StatesEnglish language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Economic aspects -- United StatesTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.