Summary

Jim Webber's first book,An Alternate Pragmatism for Going w88 slot online, explores how w88 slot online teachers, scholars and administrators respond to contemporary K-16 education reforms. Webber is now working on a second book about the rhetoric of venture philanthropists engaged in K-12 public education reform. This project explores how prominent public figures, such as former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, promote voluntary actions by nonprofit organizations, families and corporations as ways of reforming the teaching profession.

Webber frequently incorporates community and public engagement in his teaching, offering graduate seminars on this topic, designing undergraduate courses around this aim and helping the Core w88 slot online program support teaching through this lens.

Research interests

• w88 slot online's public context
• w88 slot online discourse about education
• Rhetorics of w88 slot online policy, expertise, and political economy
• w88 slot online pedagogy/programs

Courses taught

• w88 slot online 101: Composition I (Fall 2017)
• w88 slot online 401b/601b: Advanced Nonfiction Writing (Spring 2017)
• w88 slot online 400a/600a: Topics in Writing/The Rhetoric of Hip Hop (Spring 2017)
• w88 slot online 401b/601b: Advanced Nonfiction Writing (Spring 2017)
• w88 slot online 400b/600b: Topics in Professional Writing/Strategic Planning and Public Engagement
• w88 slot online 101: Composition I (Fall 2016)
• w88 slot online 732: Problems in Writing/Community Engagement in Rhetoric and Composition (Spring 2016)
• w88 slot online 401b/601b: Advanced Nonfiction (Spring 2016)
• w88 slot online 101: Composition I (Fall 2015)
• w88 slot online 400a/600a: Topics in Writing/The Rhetoric of Graphic Fiction and Nonfiction (Fall 2015)
• w88 slot online 100J: Composition Studio (Fall 2014)
• w88 slot online 738R: Theory and Practice of Professional Writing (Fall 2014)
• w88 slot online 101: Composition I (Spring 2014)
• w88 slot online 400a/600a: Topics in Writing/Writing for Nonprofit Groups and Organizations (Spring 2014)
• w88 slot online 735: Composition's Discourse of Expertise (Fall 2013)
• w88 slot online 401b/601b: Advanced Nonfiction (Fall 2013)
• w88 slot online 321: Advanced Expository Writing (Spring 2013)
• w88 slot online 400b/600b: Topics in Professional Writing/Innovation in Professional Writing (Spring 2013)
• w88 slot online 101: Composition I (Fall 2012)
• w88 slot online 400A/600A: Topics in Writing/Writing in College and Beyond (Fall 2012)

Selected publications

Book

• An Alternate Pragmatism for Going w88 slot online. Utah State University Press. 2017.

Articles

• "Toward an Artful Critique of Reform: Responding to Standards, Assessment, and Machine Scoring."College w88 slot online and Communication69.1 (2017): 118-45.
• "Expanding the 'We' of w88 slot online: Teachers, Scholars, Disciplinarity, Feminism." JAC 28.3-4 (2008): 475-502.
• "(Re)Charting the (Dis)Courses of Faith and Politics, or w88 slot online and Democracy in the Burkean Barnyard." w88 slot online Society Quarterly 38.3 (2008): 311-34. (with Michael-John DePalma and Jeffrey M. Ringer)

Education

• Ph.D., w88 slot online Studies, University of New Hampshire, 2012
• M.A., w88 slot online, University of New Hampshire, 2005
• B.A., w88 slot online and Spanish, Augsburg College in Minnesota, 1999