The new normal: pressures on technical communication programs in the age of austerity

As colleges and universities across the country continue to deal with decreases in state funding, technical communication programs, in particular, are being forced to 'do more with less'.

As budget cuts become the norm, the long-term health of technical communication depends on our ability to evolve and adapt to an array of internal, external, and technological pressures.

This book explores the ways technical communication programs are responding to conditions of economic austerity and investigates how smaller programs, or programs situated in smaller institutions, use increasingly limited resources to meet the challenges of increased student demand, the responsibilities of teaching service courses effectively, the technological demands for online education, and the pressure to prepare our students appropriately for the ever-changing needs of the job market in technical communication.