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• First Regular Meeting of the University Council for 1992-1993, Order of Business
  John Durbin (Mathematics) asks the president several questions about the newly formed Division of Rhetoric and Composition.
• Minutes of the University Council Meeting of April 20, 1992
  At the beginning of this meeting, Wayne Marshall asked when the administration would respond to the Report of the Committee on the Undergraduate Experience. Livingston said he could not answer that question.
• Minutes of the University Council Meeting of January 27, 1992
  At this meeting, Frank Bean introduced the Report of the Committee on the Undergraduate Experience; no discussion of the report occurs.
• Fifth Regular Meeting of the University Council for 1991-1992, Order of Business
  At this meeting the Report of the Committee on the Undergraduate Experience was scheduled for presentation by Frank Bean
• Memo Expressing Robert King's Intention to create a Division of Rhetoric and Composition
  Dean Robert King writes to Joseph Kruppa (Chair of English), saying that he wants to appoint a chair to the new division, and he wants to establish a committee of English faculty to deliberate the division's shape.
• Minutes of the Faculty Senate, October 5, 1992
  At this meeting, the newly created Division of Rhetoric and Composition was discussed. Faculty raised concerns about the process and the effects of the new unit.
• Learning to Write in the Social Sciences
  Faigley, Lester and Kristine Hanson. "Learning to Write in the Social Sciences." _College English_ 36.2 (1985): 140-149. This article represents collaboration between UT faculty and graduate students about writing in the disciplines.
• What we Learn from Writing on the Job
  Faigley, Lester and Thomas Miller. "What we Learn from Writing on the Job." _College English_ 44.6 (1982): 557-569. This article presents data collected as part of the FIPSE grant project.
• The English Wars
  Davis, Rod. "The English Wars." _Texas Observer_ 28 Sept 1984, pp. 18-21. Davis, a lecturer, narrates the events of the spring of 1984/fall 1985, including the failed effort to dismiss 33 senior lecturers, disenfranchise all lecturers, and the lecturers' attempt to save their jobs.
• Proposed Changes to the Substantial Writing Requirement Requirement and the English Requirement in the College of Natural Sciences, Part of the U.T. Austin Catalog, 1989-1991
  These proposed changes reflect the flexibility allowed colleges based upon the Revised Recommendations Concerning Substantial Writing Component Courses
• Minutes of the University Council Meeting of May 8, 1989
  At this meeting the Revised Recommendations Concerning Substantial Writing Component Courses was discussed, amended, and approved.
• Minutes of the University Council Meeting of April 17, 1989
  At this meeting, the Educational Policy Committee Recommendations Concerning the “Fowler Report” were discussed.
• Revised Recommendations Concerning Substantial Writing Component Courses
  These recommendations reflect the University Council Educational Policy Committee’s Recommendations, which have been amended based on James Kinneavy’s and Teresa Sullivan’s input at the 18 April 1989 meeting of the Faculty Senate.
• Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting April 23, 1990
  At this meeting the Report and Recommendations from the Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee are discussed.
• Report and Recommendations from the Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee
  This report recommends new committees and measures to support the substantial-writing component courses and to encourage more "multicultural" courses at UT.
• Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting April 3, 1989
  At this meeting, the Faculty Senate discussed the Educational Policy Committee's report outlining recommendations for how to better support and implement the substantial-writing component requirement. Attached is the Educational Policy Committee's report.
• Minutes of the University Council Meeting of September 17, 1990
  At this meeting, two students (Sean Hays and Scott Henson) ask Cunningham questions about why E 306 Writing about Difference was cancelled.
• Illiberal Arts
  Henson, Scott. "Illiberal Arts." _Texas Observer_ 6 Sept 1991, p. 3 Henson argues that Dean King has systematically assaulted liberal faculty and policies at the university, mentioning (among other things) King’s decision to abolish the English Department’s Executive Committee and to install a Budget Council.
• “Writing Across the Curriculum.”
  Kinneavy, James. “Writing Across the Curriculum.” ADE Bulletin 76 (1983): 14-21. Kinneavy parses the meanings of the term “Writing across the Curriculum” and the available manners of implementing WAC programs. He describes the new writing program at UT as an exemplary model.
• “And They Write Innumerable Books”
  Sledd, James. “And They Write Innumerable Books.”_The Writing Instructor_ 2.2 (1983): 69-79. Sledd argues that current fads among composition studies scholars--such as process pedagogy and transformational grammar--do not prepare people to become writing teachers and are therefore just a way for composition scholars to gain scholarly credentials.
• "How we Apples Swim"
  Sledd, James. "How we Apples Swim." In _Composition and Resistace_ eds. Mark Hurlbert and Michael Blitz. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1991. 145-149.
• Various proposals to change major requirements in lieu of the cancellation of E 346K
• Minutes of the University Council Meeting of May 9, 1988
  At this meeting, the Fowler report was discussed, and the matter was referred to the Educational Policy Committee to develop specific recommendations for implementation of the report's suggestions.
• Minutes of the University Council Meeting of March 23, 1987
  At this meeting, the Students’ Association request for changes to the Substantial Writing Class requirement was discussed. The Students’ Association suggested either modifying the standard requirements for SWC courses or providing enough seats in these classes for all the students in all the majors.
• Agenda for the Third Regular Meeting of the University Council for 1986-7
  William Sutherland poses a question to President Cunningham about the number of SWC courses offered by departments other than English.