ABSTRACT
The age of austerity has had an undeniable impact across the nation on higher
education generally and professional writing programs specifically. “Doing more
with less” and other such mantras have permeated higher education, from small
colleges to large universities, and from the humanities to the arts to the social and
natural sciences and engineering. Professional writing programs have attempted
to adjust to the constraints imposed by austerity in many different ways, all with
the goal-even if not always attainable-of maintaining high-quality teaching
and currency with rapidly changing technology, which speeds ever onward
no matter the financial situation, and conducting cutting-edge, useful research.
