Journet, Debra

Date:
2020-01-16
Length:
46 minutes
Interviewer:
Salo, Hayley
Transcription available:
no
Series:
University of Louisville Writing Center Oral Histories
Series ID:
2021_050
Interview Number(s):
2021_50_3
Summary:
Dr. Debra Journet was a faculty member in the English department from 1988-2015 and served as chair from 1995-2003. In this interview she discusses her initiative, as chair, to create the University Writing Center as a result of a SACS enforcing their 18 credit hour rule, which created a staffing crisis for English 101 and 102 and an excess of first-year MA GTAs. Journet negotiated with the A&S Dean, Provost, and English department to create a Writing Center, seven TT lines, and an agreement across the English department for all faculty to teach First Year Curriculum. She discusses the hiring of Carol Mattingly as a senior faculty member and founding Writing Center Director. She discusses her perception of the writing center as a place where non writing trained faculty can send students for help with grammar, lightening their load. She also discusses her talk at the Association of the Departments of English.
Topic(s):
Writing centers, Information literacy, University of Louisville--Faculty, University of Louisville Writing Center