DRW Digital Archive

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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
• 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)
• 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
• 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.
• Memo About the Constitution of the Lower-Division Advisory Board, 27 October 1988
  A memo to the AGSE, listing the committees that were folded into the LDEPC (the Freshman English Policy Committee / FEPC and the Sophomore English Policy Committee / SEPC) and further explaining that graduate instructors and assistant directors would constitute the Lower Division Advisory Board (LDEAB) to advice the LDEPC and to replace the old Freshman English Advisory Board (FEAB).
• Memo from Rebhorn to William Sutherland (Chair) About TA Apprenticeship, 28 October 1988
  A memo from Rebhorn to Sutherland (Chair of English) explaining that the LDEPC voted to allow all Teaching Assistants to apprentice for one semester in order to better prepare them to teach RHE 306
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.”
• Lower Division English Policy Committee, Fall 1988
  A full list of all the faculty on the Lower Division English Policy Committee, including their positions and responsibilities.
• Bob Wren Memo to English Department, Undated
  Bob Wren memo to English Department defending self and referencing altercation with Alan Gribben.
• University Council Meeting Minutes on Creation of DRC
  Hand-written meeting minutes from university council meeting on creation of DRC
• Kruppa Memo to English Department Announcing Meeting To Discuss Division of Rhetoric and Composition
  Memo calling meeting for 18 September 1992 to discuss creation of DRC.
• 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.
• Memo from Faigley To King Ahead of Meeting About Division of Rhetoric and Composition
  A memo from Lester Faigley to Robert King, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, thanking King for a meeting with him, James Kinneavy, John Ruszkiewicz, and Linda Ferreira-Buckley. In preparation for the meeting, Faigley explains some concerns about exemptions from E 306 and the lack of appropriate resources for rhetoric and composition.
• 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.
• Memo from Evan Carton to English Department Members of the Division of Rhetoric and Composition Committee
  A memo explaining that several English faculty had expressed concerns that by only meeting as part of university-wide committee, the English department members of said committee may not be adequately meeting the needs of the department. Carton disagrees that needs of the university and the English department are contradictory, but nevertheless suggests the English department committee members meet separately to regroup.
• Notes From Meeting of Rhetoric Faculty Regarding Division of Rhetoric and Composition
  One page of notes about an early meeting among James Kinneavy, John Slatin, John Ruszkiewicz, Linda Ferreira-Buckley, and Lester Faigley discussing appointments for the DRC and a vision for the DRC's future.
• Memo from King about Advisory Committee for the Division of Rhetoric and Composition
  A memo accepting Kruppa's recommendations on English Department representatives for an advisory committee for the DRC. Representatives are Kinneavy, Carton, Faigley, Ferreira-Buckley, Kelley, Ruszkiewicz, and Slatin.
• 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 re: final version of the Division of Composition Committee
  “John” writes to to Evan, Lester, Linda, Terry, Jim, and John announcing they had “got it this time” Attached is a 28 January “Interim Report on the Division of Rhetoric.” The report includes DRC plans to hire in the coming year as well as a history of the deliberations leading up to this attached proposal.