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Moldenhauer offers additional information apparently in response to questions asked about admissions and registration for courses, budgets, staffing, and promotion and tenure. He explains how the department is funded, why they hire so many lecturers, and how often assistant professors in the department have been given tenure in the last 7 years.
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This memo addresses broad number of issues related to teaching and workload in the department. There is some discussion of the areas where the department should recruit, the difficulty of hiring rhetoric/composition PhDs, and how the faculty should define "need" when making arguments for recruits.
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The Chair of the English Department writes to summarize the minimum faculty teaching requirement and the teaching load credit point system that has been in effect for a year, omitting information not relevant to English faculty.
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Stephen Witte's effort at a comprehensive review of the "composition problem." Details history of curriculum, administrative concerns, and proposed solutions.
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Outlines administrative duties in a proposed writing unit. Very similar to Hairston's proposal to King 16 May 1985. Likely an early draft of this proposal.
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Selling points for creating a DRC/DRW type of unit. Possibly authored by Ruszkiewicz
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Jack Farrell writes the English faculty to report that three new faculty members have accepted offers for tenure-track employment, and two others have declined.
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After announcements, Moldenhaur reports the substance of his November 1978 letter to Dean Werbow’s Consultative Committee a letter that emphasized the department’s commitment to teaching writing and the inconsistency between the department’s scholarly pursuits and its teaching mission.
The faculty discussed recruitment for the coming year. Hairston moved, among other things,that "rhetoric" be included among the disciplines recruited and that all recruits be asked to show a “demonstrated commitment” to teaching lower-division writing.
Debate about Hairston’s motions leads to counterproposals and their eventual tabling. A motion passes to proceed as earlier planned with recruitment.
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Recommendation to keep E 306 the first-year writing course and to reinstate E 317, E 310, and limited sections of E 346K.
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Notes on a proposal for an autonomous unit to oversee writing and the required 9-hour curriculum that such a unit would oversee.
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This article discusses the Texas Association of College Teachers objections to changes in staffing for writing courses.
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Two pages of typed notes about why moving E 306 to university extension is a bad idea, why makingE 316K a writing course is not feasible, and why the graduate program in English would be harmed by eliminating E 346K altogether, moving E 306 to University Extension, or proposing E 316K as a writing course.
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Ruszkiewicz responds to Koppel's characterizations of writing and the firing of lecturers in a recent ABC broadcast.
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Rhetoric faculty rebut recent recommendations for changes to E 346K.
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Memo establishing committee to evaluate E 346K.
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12 July 1985
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Friedman, Alan. "Standard English at the University of Texas." in _Situating College English: Lessons from an American University. Eds. Evan Carton and Alan Friedman. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1996. 3-16.
A collection of essays that was originally was produced following the spring 1992 “Pedagogy and Values” conference at UT. The collection is edited by Alan Friedman and Evan Carton, dedicated to Linda Brodkey. Its contributors include: Collection of essays edited by Carton and Friedman, featuring articles by Friedman, Carton Jacqueline Bacon, Helena Woodard, Louis Mendoza, Rachel Jennings, S. Shankar, Jean Lee Cole and Jennifer Huth, Gordon Grant III, Robert Twombly, Jerome Bump, Nancy L. Peterson, Sara Kimball, James Kinneavy, Kathleen Kane, Edward Madden, Margot Gayle Backus, Alison Regan, Susan Claire Warshauer, Kim Emery.
Friedman’s essay recovers the canon wars and responds directly to Lynne Cheney’s Telling the Truth and Richard Bernstein’s Dictatorship of Virtue. He also retells the E 306 controversy with special emphasis on Gribben’s contributions, saying external opposition to the course stemmed from misinformation.
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Meeting minutes from meeting where E 346K report was discussed. Meeting and discussion of E 346K tend to break along "rhetoric vs literature" lines.
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Bob Wren's letter with his opinions on the future of E 346K.
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Report of the E 346K Evaluation Committee.
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Memo from Svinicki to the Writing Program Chairmen addressing university consideration of new E 306 and E 346K courses.
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Memo to Wayne Lesser, McElroy, Charles Rossman, and John Ruszkiewicz saying that they need to appoint consultants to various committees and asking for recommendations.
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A letter sent to William Livingston (UT Vice President), William Cunningham (UT President), William Sutherland (Chair English), and Gerhard Fonken (UT Provost) defending James Sledd against allegations made by Alan Gribben and recently published in the _Daily Texan_. Sledd says Gribben accused him of provoking a fight in two letters to the English Department Executive Committee: Oct 1 and Sept 28(?). Kinneavy told Sledd that the Executive Committee recently discussed Gribben’s accusations. Sledd says Kurt Heinzelman put copies of Gribben’s letters in Sledd’s mailbox, and directly quotes a portion of this indirect correspondence. Sledd describes other letters that he's written about these accusations to the English faculty and to others, such as Dean Robert King and Vice Provost Gerhard Fonken.
Sledd describes several letters that he's written about the incident and worries about the damage these accusations might do to Tom Halliburton and Bob Wren.
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Letter and report on Composition and English Requirements from Moldenhauer addressing recent departmental vote on curriculum revision.
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Personal communication between Cullingford and Ruszkiewicz setting up a lunch to discuss E 306 and the English department climate. Handwritten contact redacted.
In a handwritten account, Ruszkiewicz provides details of their lunch. He comments that although the lunch was cordial, he isn't sure if any new common ground was reached.