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Lower Division English Policy Committee Minutes, 26 Oct 1988 Minutes of the 26 October 1988 meeting of the LDEPC. Items discussed: Weeda's 306Q proposal, Supervision of TAs/AIs, Rebhorn's supervision proposal, grade inflation. Weeda’s proposal is approved. The committee discussed: the instruments used to evaluate graduate instructors; a proposal that graduate instructors apprentice for a year in 306 before teaching their own classes; grade inflation; a proposal to designate all 309M courses “Computer Assisted,” so a small lab fee could be charged. Last proposal is approved.
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Lower Division English Policy Committee Agenda, 22 February 1989 LDEPC Items listed: AI/TA supervision, 298T practicum, variant course proposals; variant course proposals for E309L (The Writing Process) and E309K (Writing About Science Fiction) are attached
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Lower Division English Policy Committee Agenda, 30 November 1988 An announcement and agenda for an upcoming LDEPC meeting. Items listed: AI/TA supervision, Variant text proposals; guidelines for variant text proposals and variant text proposals are attached. Included also is a brief report on the LDEPC’s vote to recommend that all TAs be allowed to apprentice in E 306 for one semester before becoming instructors of record.
Attached: a memo from Weeda and Rebhorn advising all interested parties to submit their interest in teaching 309 to the office and further documentation about how to submit the proposal and university requirements for SWC classes.
Variant text proposals are attached: Ingrassia (E 306), Grant (E 306), Madden (E 306).
Other course proposals with handwritten comments are attached: by Grant (309K), Finley, Carver, Hall, Penticoff, Bose (E 314L), Madden (E 309K)
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Memo Relating to the Lower Division English Policy Committee Meeting, 30 November 1988 A list of documents (not attached): Course variant proposals and revisions to the AI/TA supervision plan
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Lower Division Supervision Programs, 1988 A full description of changes made to supervision of graduate instructors to comply with university guidelines. Notable topics include: faculty supervision and evaluation of Teaching Assistants, Assistant Instructor responsibilities and supervision; and the supervision program for new instructors, including orientation, E 298T/398T.
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Lower Division English Policy Committee Agenda, 26 Oct 1988 A memo announcing an upcoming meeting of the LDEPC. Items listed: Survey of Teaching Assistants, 306Q, grade inflation.
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Lower Division Policy Committee Minutes, 5 October 1988 Minutes of the 5 October 1988 meeting of the LDPC. Items discussed include: office hours, E 316K, E 298T, Brodkey's development of a new E 306 syllabus (deferred). A proposal is considered requiring that all Assistant Instructors first serve for a year as Teaching Assistants. This leads to a discussion about over-enrollment in classes and staffing issues caused by low budgets. The committee decides to put off any discussion of the E 306 syllabus until Brodkey has had a whole semester teaching E 398T under her belt.
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Memo Asking to be Considered for E 309K, 22 October 1988 Berry requests to teach two sections of E 309K in the spring: “Popular Culture and the Self in Modern America.” Berry describes the course, its texts, and reports high student evaluations.
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Memo from Director of Writing Program to the General Faculty About Various Issues, 21 October 1988 Rebhorn reports on a number of developments. Most importantly, high enrollment in E 306 has forced the department to offer fewer sections of E 309. Therefore, instructors cannot assume they will teach E 309 in the spring. Fewer computer-assisted classes will be available too.
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Memo Reminding Lower Division Policy Committee that Slatin will teach E 309M: Writing Thinking and Computers in Spring 1989 A memo from Slatin, saying that he’s already been approved to teach his 309M course in the spring and in a computer classroom (FAC 9). Slatin mentions that this is the course’s second iteration and it’s important to his research.
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Memo Detailing a Conversation Between the Writing Program Director and the Chair of English, 10 October 1988 A memo detailing Rebhorn's conversation with Sutherland on the following topics: enrollment crunch, TA training, publicizing the practicum. Particular attention is given to the proposal to require all AIs to TA for one year and the LDPC’s concerns about underfunding and understaffing due to the “enrollment crunch.”
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Lab Subcommittee Report to the Writing Skills Assessment Committee A full assessment of the lab, what it does for the writing program and what services it will provide in the new writing program with specific reflection on E 346K, E 106 and E 206
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Responses to McMurrey's Request for Additional Writing Lab Funds A memo to Carol McKay explaining some reactions to McMurrey's request for additional funds so the Writing Lab can accommodate the new writing program
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Writing about Difference: The Syllabus for English 306 Brodkey's account of the E 306 controversy. Attached is a copy of the E 306 syllabus including course description, reading list, schedule , unit and assignment descriptions, published 1996
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Racism and Sexism: An Integrated Study The controversial anthology on racism and sexism that would be featured in the 1990 E 306 syllabus.
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James Duban and John Ruszkiewicz Memo to Linda Brodkey and Proposals for Lower Division English Policy Committee regarding E 306 curriculum and texts James Duban and John Ruszkiewicz letter of July 9, 1990 to Linda Brodkey expressing interest in E 306 curriculum development and proposing curriculum and textbook related motions for the LDEPC.
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Lower Division English Policy Committee Minutes 3 April 1990 LDEPC meeting minutes. Items discussed: E 306 "Writing About Difference" course and textbook, standardization of curriculum and textbook at AI orientation, and a vote to accept the next year's primary text: Racism and Sexism.
Addendum April 4, 1990 Jim Duban asks that the minutes reflect his serious reservations about the standard curriculum.
In attendance: Brodkey, Duban, Fernea, Heinzelman, Kimball, Slatin, Fowler, Hinman, Villalobos
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Lower Division English Policy Committee Meeting Agenda for 10 April 1990, including letters from James Dubin and John Ruszkiewicz and a proposal from John Ruszkiewicz Meeting agenda for LDEPC.
Attached: letters clarifying positions taken in earlier meetings from James Duban and John Ruszkiewicz, and proposals from John Ruszkiewicz.
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Memo from Linda Brodkey to Lower Division English Policy Committee, 15 April 1990 Memo from Linda Brodkey to LDEPC responding to objection of John Ruszkiewicz to proposed E 306 changes.
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Lower Division English Policy Committee Meeting Minutes, 10 April 1990 Meeting Minutes of Lower Division English Policy Committee from April 10, 1990. AI proposals for E 309 courses were discussed, as were John Ruszkiewicz's proposals for E 306 Curriculum
In attendance Brodkey, Duban, Fernea, Heinzelman, Kimball, Ruszkiewicz, Slatin, Fowler, Villalobos
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Lower Division English Policy Committee Meeting Minutes 17 April 1990 Meeting minutes from LDEPC meeting on 17 April 1990. Topics discussed: Ruszkiewicz's reservations about the proposed E 306 curriculum on writing about difference, responses to these concerns, possible textboooks, and role of AIs in teaching the course.
In attendance: Brodkey, Duban, Fernea, Heinzelman, Kimball, Ruszkiewicz
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Budget and Proposed Expansion of the Writing Lab to Serve the New Writing Program A detailed budget for extra staff, so the Writing Lab can serve the new writing program including E 346K
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Researchin' Reality A revised version of Gribben's refutation of Sara Diamond's "Reading' Writin' and Repressin'" (_Z Magazine_ February 1991)
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English Department Meeting Minutes, 8 May 1990 Topics discussed: Various faculty concerns with changes in E 306 curriculum, Writing About Difference, Petition regarding changes in Sophomore English requirement
In attendance and speaking: Kruppa, Brodkey, Luedke, Hilfer, Marcus, Kearns, Frost, Lesser, Hairston, Duban, Fitzgerald, Ericson, Ruszkiewicz, Kimball, Worthen, Kidd, Voss, Kelly, Warshauer, Zuren, Kinneavy, Downs-Gamble, Heinzelman, Barbara Harlow, Rita Copeland, Kelley, Bose, Taylor, Bertelsen, Worthen, Velz, Rebhorn, Bump
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Unorthodox Procedures or Outright Violations of Academic Procedures in the Reconstitution of E 306 as a Topics Course An extensive list of violations with complaints about the new syllabus drafted by Gribben over the summer to replace the original Brodkey syllabus