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Using six narratives from junior faculty across five institutions, the essay examines how these new faculty were prepared—or not—for developing and implementing writing majors. It argues that discipline-wide preparation for future faculty requires richer intellectual and scholarly materials, and it describes how those currently in undergraduate programs can support graduate training more specifically.","A Changing Profession Changing a Discipline: Junior Faculty and the Undergraduate Major  \nGreg Giberson, Lori Ostergaard, Jennifer Clary Lemon, Jennifer Courtney, Kelly Kinney, and Brad Lucas  \nAbstract: This essay explores some of the challenges for the discipline of rhetoric and composition implied by the growth in undergraduate writing majors . Through six narratives from junior faculty at five different institutions , this work explores the ways in which these new faculty were, or were not , prepared for the challenges of developing and implementing new writing majors . Finally , the authors discuss ways in which those who are currently working in undergraduate degree programs can help to provide the intellectual and scholarly materials necessary for graduate programs to more thoroughly and specifically prepare future faculty for their work on undergraduate majors .  \nThe following collection of short narratives is the result of a rather unique collaboration that began with an innocent rhetorical question in a search committee meeting and culminated in the gathering of narratives from junior faculty from five different institutions in an effort to answer it. The question that sparked this project related to whether or not the prospect of working in an undergraduate degree program in writing and rhetoric would be an important selling point to a potential job candidate fresh out of a Ph. D. program. Although the answer might seem obvious , the following narratives suggest that the opportunity to work in an undergraduate degree program or to participate in or lead the development of such a program as a junior faculty member is more complicated than the question suggests . What follows , then, are stories that provide all of us who have an interest in the growth of undergraduate degree programs with a better understanding of what is happening and what these disciplinary changes might mean for the material , intellectual , and professional conditions of our discipline, as well as for how we prepare future faculty for working in those conditions .  \nWhile each of these narratives suggests in its own unique way that changes in graduate education are necessary to better prepare new graduates for the challenging professional circumstances that undergraduate degree programs represent , they do not tell the whole story. First , it must be acknowledged that each individual story is one of success despite less than ideal circumstances . In that sense, it is reasonable to assume that these authors were indeed prepared well for the work of developing and working in an undergraduate degree program. However, the fact that these narratives indicate individual success does not necessarily mean that the individuals and the programs they helped to develop and run would not have been more successful had they received more direct theoretical and practical graduate instruction in undergraduate degree program development and administration. But this obvious observation oversimplifies a rather complex and not quickly resolved problem.  \nScholars examining the efficacy of doctoral training in rhetoric and composition have long bemoaned the lack of professional preparation future faculty receive: from Scott L. Miller, et al.’s challenge for doctoral programs to “take more accountability for educating” doctoral students about the challenges of the job market (403) to Richard E. Miller’s chilling observation that “the bureaucratic nature of academic work is always news to a workforce that has been lured by the promise of academic freedom and the unbounded pleasures of the mind” (209) . In regards to writing program administration in particular, Shirley Rose and Irwin Weiser point out that , historically , new faculty have learned to administer writing programs “via on the job training, or, if they have been lucky , through some exposure to administration through graduate assistantships” ( 161) . 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