Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture will be helmed by two to three co-editors who will serve for no more than one four-year term without a break from service. The co-editors will comprise one colleague from rhetoric in English and one from Communication. In addition to the co-editors, RPC will include an executive board of four to six people who will also serve as members of the editorial board and whose other primary task will be the selection of new co-editors. For the sake of continuity, two of the executive board will serve five-year terms, and the other four members will serve the same term as the co-editors. Thus, each new team of co-editors will appoint two managing editors for four-year terms and two for five-year terms. The executive board members will also serve no more than one four or five-year term without a break. Co-editors will be responsible for constructing an editorial board of no more than 25 scholars. There are no term limits for editorial board members.
In addition, co-editors will be responsible for selecting a forum editor or co-editors, who will also serve no more than one consecutive four-year term. Forums will be peer-reviewed by the forum editor(s) with a final review by the RPC co-editors. The RPC co-editors will make the final determination about the content of the forum and, in rare instances, they may elect to send a forum in its entirety or individual pieces to members of the editorial board for additional review. In the first years of the journals, the co-editors will edit and establish the forum.
Decision making for the appointment of the main editors and the forum editors will ideally be made using a consensus voting structure. If consensus cannot be made, in rare instances and if applicable, a consensus minus one structure may be used. In the event that the main co-editors disagree on a decision that is theirs alone to make, the question will be put before the executive board who will deliberate and publicly vote. A simple majority is needed to go forward.
In addition, co-editors will be responsible for selecting a forum editor or co-editors, who will also serve no more than one consecutive four-year term. Forums will be peer-reviewed by the forum editor(s) with a final review by the RPC co-editors. The RPC co-editors will make the final determination about the content of the forum and, in rare instances, they may elect to send a forum in its entirety or individual pieces to members of the editorial board for additional review. In the first years of the journals, the co-editors will edit and establish the forum.
Decision making for the appointment of the main editors and the forum editors will ideally be made using a consensus voting structure. If consensus cannot be made, in rare instances and if applicable, a consensus minus one structure may be used. In the event that the main co-editors disagree on a decision that is theirs alone to make, the question will be put before the executive board who will deliberate and publicly vote. A simple majority is needed to go forward.
funding
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For a journal of about 200 pages, published electronically with a print-on-demand option:
● Initial design: $1,000 ● Copyediting per issue: $1,300 ● Typesetting per issue: $1,500 ● Printing per issue (e-only): $750 ● Hosting (JSTOR): $2,000 per year ● Fulfillment services: $2,000 per year The proposers of this new journal commit to raise $50,000 to launch the new journal. For a listing of the original funders for this journal, click here. |
This webpage represents the original proposal that launched RPC. We offer it here as way to extend full transparency on RPC as well as general behind-the-scenes logistics of beginning a print-based journal that is not funded through a professional society, academic conference, university department, etc.
