DRW Digital Archive

Items

• Notes on Writing Lab Staff, Spring 1986
  A two-page handwritten list of names and appointments (AI or TA, half-time or full-time): Valerie Balester, Sue Simmons, Tom Reber, Hector Torres, Joan Shiring, Lisa Bassett, Kathleen McDonagh, Paul Taylor, Julie Basco, Doug Anderson, Kyung Sook Shin, Lisa Judge, Pam Opiela, Anju Kapur, Eve Scherr, Scott Deaven (?), Tom Foster, Greg Lyons, James McDonald, Shelli Booth Fowler, Medhat Sidky Rabis, Julia Lowther, Dana Harrington, Marj Hoye. Included are notes on the order of preference and why some people are preferred over others.
• Summer Activities for Substantial Writing Component Courses
  Two memos, one announcing that there would be no faculty training sessions during the summer of 1985, the other collecting information for a proposed handbook to help faculty design substantial writing component courses.
• Transfer Equivalents for Substantial Writing Component Courses
  An explanation of which English courses can transfer for credit as Substantial Writing Component Courses, offered to Weinstock, Associate Dean of Liberal Arts. This was written by Kruppa, Associate Chair of English.
• Training Seminars for Substantial Writing Courses
  A rough outline for the content of a seminar to train faculty unfamiliar with writing instruction
• Memo about E106/206
  A memo asking why E106/206 would not be offered, reporting two conflicting explanations, and asking which is true
• English Faculty Senate Minutes 29 April 1983
  Items discussed: Langford and Ames will become Emeritus, Kruppa reports on spring 1984 undergrad course offerings, discussion of courses offerings and possibly revising some course titles, poet Albert Goldbarth awarded Guggenheim fellowship, move to hire another esteemed poet, David Beer reports that full report on lecturer matters will be completed by 6 May 1983. In attendance: Moldenhauer, Cable, Carton, Cullingford, Duncan, Friedman, Gordan, Jollifee, King, Kruppe, Lesser Rossman, Skaggs.
• English Faculty Senate Actions 15 Oct 1982
  Summary of items mentioned in a meeting of the departmental Senate, including: presidential approval of the new writing program, motion to form a subcommittee on lecturers (defeated), senate project, faculty recruitment
• John Ruszkiewicz Draft Letter to The Daily Texan Addressing Issues Related to E 306 and E 346, 16 March 1985
  Ruszkiewicz draft of letter to _The Daily Texan_ regarding recent printed comments by Lesser regarding the nature of E 306 and E 346, dated March 16, 1985.
• Department of English Meeting Minutes, 25 January 1980
  English Department meeting minutes discussing logistical and staffing problems related to freshman composition and establishing teams to examine various issues related to teaching freshman composition. This meeting leads to the creation of the Format Teams. Attached is Trimble's synopsis on Freshman Composition.
• John Slatin letter on Composition
  An unmarked draft of Slatin's letter on composition and plan for the lower-division writing program.
• James Sledd letter to English Department, 28 March 1980
  Letter from James Sledd to English Department regarding freshman English and curriculum issues.
• Tom McLaughlin letter to Alan Gribben, August 31, 1990
  Personal letter from local citizen Tom McLaughlin regarding Alan Gribben's position on E 306 curriculum.
• Letter from Sidney Ellis to Standish Meacham regarding E 306 curriculum, with Handwritten note to John Ruszkiewicz
  Letter from Ellis to Dean Meacham regarding E 306 curriculum with a proposed alternative curriculum, and personal note copied to Ruszkiewicz expressing approval for Ruszkiewicz's editorial in the Daily Texan and opposition to E 306 curriculum change.
• Ron Wilson: A Case For a Traditional E 306
  Murray, a freshman engineering major, issues a grammatical and syntactical take down of Wilson's letter to the UT president, which expressed displeasure with the faculty's rejection of a multicultural education requirement. Murray argues that Wilson's mistakes prove that E 306 is not doing a good job teaching students how to write.
• Linda Brodkey Memo to Lower Division English Policy Committee, 20 March 1990
  Memo convening the LDEPC to discuss E 306 curriculum and a shift to Writing About Difference, including her meeting with the Dean, and new AI preparation
• Recommended Curriculum for Provisional Admission Program Students 11 November 1982
  Secretary to the University Council Kelley passes along the legislation drafted by Educational Policy Committee and approved by the University Council, informing the general faculty of its impending adoption of curriculum and admission revisions.
• An Amendment to the Recommended Curriculum for Provisional Admission Program Students
  An amendment suggesting that all students be required to take E 306, among other things
• Proposal to Amend Regulations Governing the Provisional Admissions Program
  Proposed changes to the university program allowing some students provisional admission; the proposal suggests that all students be required to take E 306 unless they've received credit for it elsewhere
• E 306 Assignment prompt and student paper ("Why do People Believe in God?")
  A complete assignment prompt for a causal argument and a student paper responding to the prompt
• Memo about E 306 Freshman English for Mexican Americans
  A memo from Sutherland proposing a special variant of E 306 to serve Mexican-American students; a handwritten memo from Kennamer expressing enthusiasm about the proposal.
• E 306 Freshman English for Mexican Americans
  A syllabus with optional units, assignments, and textbooks
• Lower Division Policy Committee Description, 1988-1989
  A description of the LDEPC, its subcommittees, major functions, and duties of the director, associate director, and assistant director. The committee’s responsibilities and courses are listed as are its members and their duties.
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Minutes 15 November 1989
  LDEPC meeting minutes. Items discussed: variant course proposals for E 306, E 309k, E 314L, and E 316K. In attendance: Brodkey, Heinzelman, Kimball, Ruszkiewicz, Slatin, Fowler, Hinman, Villalobos
• Rene Williams letter to John Ruszkiewicz
  Four page letter from former UT Austin graduate student Rene Williams on November 11, 1990 to John Ruszkiewicz expressing support for the positions he took on the E 306 controversy.
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Agenda, 8 March 1989
  LDEPC Agenda. Items listed: 298T practicum, AI supervision