Coping with our ‘Literacy Crisis.’

Title: Coping with our ‘Literacy Crisis.’
Type: Article
Date: 21 June 1977
Description: “Coping with our ‘Literacy Crisis.’” Daily Texan 21 June 1977, p. 4.

This editorial argues that the entering students at UT are part of a literacy crisis because their SAT scores and their scores on the English Composition Test have been steadily declining since 1971. The article also laments the 1973 decision to reduce the English requirement from 12 to 9 hours, decries the Trimble report for not recommending specific actions, and endorses Sledd’s proposal that a department of writing be created and that students be required to take classes there.