Navigating Space On and Beyond Campus

Offering practical applications of scholarship in spatial theory and rhetorics of space and place, Navigating Space On and Beyond Campus profiles how writing and rhetoric programs across the United States have responded to the spatial challenges and possibilities facing higher education. Exploring how instructors creatively and critically navigate actual, virtual, and inaccessible spaces in the pursuit of effective, ethically informed rhetoric and writing education, this book also reveals how the use of space contributes to the creation and/or denial of equity among students, faculty, and programs.Contributors document how they have secured and repurposed campus real estate, literally and metaphorically navigated relationships with other campus resources, and responded to austerity measures that have threatened the spaces they have historically called their own. Individual sections focus on the historical pressures that have shaped programs' locations and resources, developments in the work and design of writing centers, the creation of new labs and centers, and the relationship between writing programs and the broader places and communities with which they are intertwined.How spaces are allocated, structured, and regulated is a key determinant of access and equity in higher education. Navigating Space On and Beyond Campus offers timely strategies for and reflections on the place of rhetoric and writing on college and university campuses.