DRW Digital Archive

Items

• English Department Senate agenda, 20 Nov 1981
  Items listed: Motions from English Department governance committee, Lecturer subcommittee report, teaching load credits (TLC), and English composition teaching awards; included are the motions from the governance committee to change the membership of the English Department senate
• Minutes of English Department Senate, 30 October 1981
  Items discussed during the senate meeting include: Telephones, lecturer subcommittee report, teaching evaluations, and grievance procedure. Present at the meeting are: Moldenhauer, Bowden, Duncan, Endres, Farrell, Prost, Heinzelman, Kruppa, McKay, Megaw, Meyer, Ohle, Reed, Renwick, Rodi, Ruszkiewicz, Saldivar, Simon, Webb, Westbrook, and Whitbread.
• Lecturers: Fish or Foul?
  This article in the Santa Rita Express (UT Austin faculty publication), examines the English Department lecturer hiring issue.
• Sledd memo to English Department, April 8, 1984
  Sledd's memo of April 8, 1984 criticizing recent English Department decision regarding hiring of lecturers.
• William Sutherland memo to English Department calling for meeting to discuss lecturer hiring
  Bill Sutherland's memo to English Department calling March 28, 1984 meeting to discuss lecturer hiring issues.
• Lecturers, The Issues, by James Kinneavy, April 6, 1984
  James Kinneavy's perspective on issues related to hiring of lecturers, dated April 6, 1984.
• English Department Senate Meeting Minutes, 4 April 1984
  English Department Senate Meeting Minutes covering the issue of hiring/re-hiring lecturers. Attending: Burch, Cable, Carton, Cullingford, Faigley, Friedman, Gaines, Gordon, Gribben, Jarratt, Jolliffe, Kruppa, Lesser, Megaw, Reed, Rossman, Ruszkiewicz, Schieck, Westbrook, Wevill
• Materials on Lecturer Matters Provided to English Faculty Senate May 12, 1983
  Outside materials pertinent to the discussion of lecturer employment provided to the English Department senate for their consideration, including sample lecturer appointment letter.
• A Proposal on the Lecturer Situation
  John Ruszkiewicz's proposal for how to proceed regarding the hiring of lecturers. Ruszkiewicz suggests expanding the tenure-track faculty and creating a complicated two-tier system of lecturers: Lecturer I and Lecturer II.
• Minutes of Senate Meeting, Department of English, 28 March 1984
  Meeting minutes primarily describe English Department discussion of hiring lecturers, period of hire, and tenure status of lecturer positions. In attendance: Burch, Cable, Cook, Carton, Cullingford, Gaines, Friedman, Gordon, Gribben, Kruppa, Lesser, Lidoff, Megaw, Reed, Rossman, Ruszkiewicz, Scheick, Westbrook, Wevill, Jarratt
• David Jolliffe letter to Departmental Senate, 4 April 1984
  Letter describes David Jolliffe's decision to vote against lecturer proposal and his agreement with Hairston's positions in her 3-23-84 letter to Bill Sutherland.
• Maxine Hairston letter to Bill Sutherland, March 23, 1984
  Maxine Hairston's letter to Bill Sutherland outlining her objections to the proposals related to hiring of lecturers and reduction of lecturers from full-time to part-time status, with copies cc'd to James Kinneavy, Neill Megaw, and John Ruszkiewicz.
• Draft of "The Lecturers: Victims of Both Systems" by James Kinneavy
  Draft of James Kinneavy's thoughts on issues related to the hiring of lecturers, submitted to the Executive Committee.
• Greg Myers' Letter to Bill Sutherland regarding Hiring of Lecturers, March 27, 1984
  Greg Myers letter (March 27, 1984) to Bill Sutherland regarding discussion of hiring of lecturers and prior work of the Executive Committee on the issue.
• Proposed Amendments to the Report on Lecturer Matters
  Contains two proposals related to Executive Committee discussions about the hiring of lecturers.
• Ruszkiewicz Rationale for Division of Rhetoric and Composition
  Ruzkiewicz provides rationale for the creation of the DRC as well as sharing his vision of what the division should and should not be. Possibly to be shared at 18 September 1992 English department meeting on the creation of the DRC.
• Ruszkiewicz's Comments on Kruppa Memo and Division of Rhetoric and Composition Proposal
  In notes on Kruppa's memo, Ruzkiewicz provides rationale for the creation of the DRC as well as sharing his vision of what the division should and should not be.
• Notes on the Division of Rhetoric and Composition
  An unattributed explanation of a meeting about the DRC among James Kinneavy, Linda Ferreira-Buckley, John Slatin, and John Ruszkiewicz. The faculty oppose the originally proposed leadership structure and agree on a sequence of writing courses and he establishments of the Writing Center and the Computer Research Lab. They agree recruiting is necessary but are reluctant to take funding away from the English Department. Finally, the announce their decision to nominate Faigley as the first dividison chair. The document includes several handwritten edits.
• Draft of Status Report from English Department Members of the Division of Rhetoric and Composition Committee
  A status report assuring the English Department faculty that the Division of Composition would not be run by the Dean of Liberal Arts, that English Department graduate students would still be employed by the first-year writing program, and that English Department staffing would not be adversely affected by the new Division.
• Memo Suggesting Executive Committee Changes to Lecturer Evaluation
  A memo from the Advisory Committee on Lecturers suggesting procedures for the Executive Committee to follow when evaluating and ranking lecturers and documentation that lecturers must provide for such evaluation in the 1984-1985 academic year.
• Memo from William Sutherland Making Recommendations from the Executive Committee Regarding Lecturers
  A memo from William Sutherland, English Department Chair announcing that the English Executive committee recommends changes to the 1983 policies on the hiring of lecturers
• Memo Calling For an English Senate Meeting Regarding the Study Group on Lecturers Report
  A memo calling a meeting of the English Faculty Senate 12 May 1983 to discuss the report of the study group on lecturers.
• Memo Creating a "Study Group" on Lecturers
  A memo explaining that the English Senate voted to disband the subcommittee on lecturers at the 28 February meeting and to constitute a "Study Group on lecturers" to bring to the senate questions, information, and suggestions about what to do with the lecturers; this memo announces the creation of this study group and its membership
• Niell Megaw's Commentary on John Ruszkiewicz's Lecturer Proposal
  Neill Megaw's typed responses and suggestions for John Ruszkiewicz's proposal for the English Department lecturers
• Proposal from the Senate Subcommittee on Lecturers
  The full proposal submitted by the English Department subcommittee to the English Faculty Senate, regarding lecturers and their future employment