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• Minutes of the Second Regular Meeting of the General Faculty, 3 May 1977
  At this meeting, the recommendations of the Hairston Committee are discussed: leave the English requirement at 9 hours and establish a university-wide committee to address writing across the curriculum. The meeting features a lengthy indictment of the English writing program by Sledd, comments by Kinneavy and Hairston defending recent efforts to improve the writing program, and a failed vote on the Hairston Committee recommendation because no quorum was present.
• Minutes of the University Council Meeting, 20 April 1981
  At this meeting, an amended version of the proposal to change the university-wide English requirement was deliberated and approved. These amendments based on the 23 March Faculty Senate discussion: (1) The Writing in Business variation of E 346K was removed and (2) authority to approve E 346K equivalents was moved from the English Department to the University Council. Other amendments were deliberated and denied.
• Minutes of the University Council Meeting, 16 February 1981
  At this meeting, the Faculty Senate discussed the Vick Report, its writing requirement and the feasibility of its full implementation. Faculty from various departments throughout the university discussed the quality of student writing and the feasibility of expanding writing instruction beyond the English Department's offerings.
• Report of the University Council Committee on Basic Education Requirements
  This report suggests changes to the 45 hours in basic education requirements established by the 1955 Graham Committee Report. Substantial changes to the writing requirement are suggested including: 6 hours of lower-division writing classes taken in the Department of English (beyond E 306) and 6 additional upper-division hours of substantial writing component courses taken in students' major disciplines.
• Minutes of the University Council Meeting of May 16 1977.
  The main item on the agenda is the “Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Change in the Plan I B.A. Lower-Division Requirement.” The faculty discuss the state of the writing program and its success in heated terms. Sledd, Kinneavy, and Hairston contribute substantially the conversation. The report’s three recommendations are voted individually, and all three pass.
• Report from the Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Change in the Plan I, B.A. Lower-Division English Requirement
  This report follows up on a change approved Feb 3, 1973, reducing the required number of credits in English from 12 to 9 hours (from two courses at both the freshman and sophomore levels to two courses at the freshman level and one course at the sophomore level). The 1973 change also approved two options for the second-semester freshman composition course: either a course in composition and literature or a course in composition, logic, and rhetoric. The Committee recommends: (1) Retaining the new 9-hour requirement; (2) retaining the two options (Composition/literature and composition/logic/rhetoric) for the second-semester course; (3) appointment of a university-wide committee to study the ways writing instruction can be improved across the university.
• English Proposal Overlooks Students, 30 September 1985
  An opinion article in which a non-English major argues that (entering) students particularly are those who will be greatly impacted in terms of cost and time by the English department's course proposal
• English Department Polarized over E 346K
  Megaw's "English Department Polarized over E346." in _The Daily Texan_ from 7 March 1985, p. 3 discusses how _The Daily Texan_ offers an important forum for debate, as well as the reduced composition requirement.
• "James Sledd Responds"
  In this College English article, Sledd responds to a previous editorial by Thomas Farrell.
• "Dean Delays Changes in a Disputed Course"
  News article reporting on Dean Meacham's decision to delay curriculum changes to E 306 p. 35.
• "New E 306 Disregards Western Culture"
  Editorial criticizing the proposed curriculum change for E 306, p. 4
• "No Thanks: Administration's Poor Planning Sinks E 306 Proposal"
  Editorial criticizing the move to cancel the E 306 curriculum changes and the decisions that lead to the cancellation. p. 4
• "'Texan' Goes too Far in Debating E 306"
  Editorial criticizing The Daily Texan's coverage of the controversy over E 306's curriculum change and faculty response, p. 4
• "Students, AIs Deserve Change in E 306", "Keep Department Autonomy
  Editorial from a graduate student Assistant Instructor Fitzgerald criticizing the decision to not to implement a new E 306 curriculum. Below, a letter to the editor from Professors Heinzelman and Saldivar criticizing the actions of other professors opposed to the curriculum change. Printed Editor's note says the letter was signed by 41 other faculty.
• "Gribben, Colleagues Make English Department a Battlefield", "AI a Department Casualty", "English 306 is Fair Game "Enforced Diversity Offers No Solution"
  Editorials from faculty and students offering opinions and critiques of the controversy over E 306, the campus discussion of "multiculturalism," and Gribben's calls for "receivership" of the course and the division of the English Department. p. 4
• "Alumni Relations: Gribben Pushes 'Receivership' for English Department"
  Reprint of Gribben's letter to a member of the UT Liberal Arts Foundation recommending "receivership" for E 306. A printed editor's note at the top is critical of Gribben's stance and actions in sending the letter. p. 4
• "Gribben Suggests Control of E 306 go to Arbitrator"
  News article reporting Gribben's push to give control of E 306 to an external arbiter, suggesting Psychology Department Chair Foss. pp. 1-2
• "Protesters Demand Participation in Decisions on Diversity"
  News article reporting on protests on the UT campus following the decision to postpone E 306 curriculum changes. pp. 1-2
• "A Modest Proposal: Teach Writing in Writing Courses"
  Editorial from Professor Duban responding to a previous Daily Texan editorial from Heinzelman and Saldivar. Duban criticizes his colleagues' editorial and the proposed curriculum changes to E 306. p. 4
• "E 306 Reforms Would Protect Students from Indoctrination"
  Part Two of a two-part editorial in support of the change in E 306 curriculum. p. 4
• Packet for the New E 306 Syllabus
  The full course packet, including syllabus, reading assignments, and assignment descriptions for E 306 "Writing about Difference"
• "Recomposition: Confusion Reigns in the World According to Alan Gribben"
  Editorial critiquing Gribben's public complaints about E 306, as well as the open letter in the Daily Texan, "A Statement of Academic Concern." p. 4.
• "Gribben Asks Faculty Senate to Screen E 306"
  News article reporting Gribben's call for Faculty Senate to screen E 306's new curriculum. pp. 1-2
• "English 306 not for Politics", "Fix E 306 and stop Bitching", "English or Indoctrination"
  Letters to the editor regarding a previous Daily Texan editorial on the E 306 curriculum controversy from Taylor, Assistant Instructor in English, Garcia, English Graduate, and Budzieszewski, Associate Professor of Government. p. 4
• New Elective Composition Course to Become Requirement in Fall '88
  Ewing, Darryl. "New Elective Composition Course to Become Requirement in Fall '88." _Daily Texan_ 21 Feb 1985, p. 5 This article reports on E 309, which will be an elective until 1988, at which point it should become a required sophomore-level class. The scope and purpose of E 309K is described. The article also describes crash courses that the Writing Center will offer in composition. Joe Kruppa and Alan Gribben are quoted.