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English 346K offerings 1983 English course descriptions, including a description of one E 346K offered by Greg Myers and published in the Daily Texan.
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English 306 Proposal Passes in a Landslide Victory 19 September 1985 A news article in the Daily Texan that discusses the overwhelming approval of the E346K course proposal. There are approving comments by committee members Kruppa, Rossman, and Gribben and a dissenting opinionby Kinneavy
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English Sequence Proposal Gets Mixed Reaction Muller and Never article in _The Daily Texan_ reports primarily English Department faculty reactions to the newly proposed 9 hour English requirement, which outsources much of E 346K and E 306.
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English Battles Endless, 24 Sept 1985 Sledd's letter to the editor of the Daily Texan in response to an earlier opinion article on titled "Critics of E 346K Committee Claim Unfair Representation." Sledd claims that the battle is actually between the department's rhetoricians and literati who cannot unite behind the program, and that an honest decision would be to abandon all requirements in English
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Council Supports E 346K Decision This article reports that a committee of leaders from several UT colleges met and agreed on the decision to postpone E 346K.
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Colleges Reformulating English Requirements This article discusses how colleges at the university are reformulating degree plans after the postponement of E346K.
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Harwood article "Discussion of English Composition Course Becomes Faculty Feud" Harwood's "Discussion of English Composition Course Becomes Faculty Feud." Published in _The Daily Texan_ 5 March 1985, p. 6 . The article discusses the suspension of E 346K requirement due to inadequate staffing. Faculty referenced in the article include Sledd, Sutherland, Rabban, Gribben, Fonken, Spirduso, and Kinneavy.
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Freshman Course May be Dropped Muller article in _The Daily Texan_ describes the 9 hour English requirement in which E 306 will be outsourced and not taught at UT.
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E 346K Deletion Causes Confusion Shaw article in _The Daily Texan_ details undergraduate confusion over how to fulfill E 346K requirement without sections available.
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English Committee's Proposal Doesn't Make the Grade An opinion article in which the authors advocate that the new E346K Committee proposal be voted down by the Department of English.
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Faculty Debates E 306, Changing Requirements Muller, Debra. "Faculty Debate E 306, Changing Requirements." _Daily Texan_ 12 Sept 1985, p. 1. Discusses report fo E 346K evaluation committee and disagreement within English Dept.
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Shift of Technical Writing Classes Proposed Muller article describes English department proposal to shift the teaching of E 346K sections to other departments.
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Alternate Writing Program Yet to be Evaluated The document is a news article from the Daily Texan on an alternative plan to restructure the Writing program. The structure of the program and comments by Kruppa, Kinneavy, and Ruszkiewicz are covered.
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Critics of E 346K Committee Claim Unfair Representation, 18 September 1985 A news article in the Daily Texan in which Kinneavy is reported to have said that the Rhetoric Interest Group's alternative proposals for writing courses was not given ample consideration by the E 346k Committee
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Public Letter Protesting Graduate Students' Exclusion from English Department Committees An open letter signed by many graduate students protesting their removal from all English Department committees
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Tale of the 14 Stooges James Sledd describes the English department's new governance plan as an "organized indecency," pointing out the inappropriate treatment of lecturers and overall, a failed top-down approach.
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College Catalogues Revised to Emphasize Basic Core Curriculum Fisher, Laura & Patty Merren. "College Catalogues Revised to Emphasize Basic Core Curriculum." _Daily Texan_ 11 April 1983, p. 1
This article briefly summarizes the purpose of the Committee on Basic Education Requirements, its recommendations, and Vick's disappointment in the University Council's vote on the report. James Vick is quoted.
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Officials Differ on Temporary Professor Use Craft, Renee. "Officials Differ on Temporary Professor Use." _Daily Texan_ 4 August 1986, p. 6.
Responding to a _Chronicle of Higher Ed_ report on abuses of non-tenure-track faculty, this article features two UT departments: computer science, which praises temporary professors as a way to keep new professional information in circulation, and English, where non-tenure-track faculty can be a burden. The mass firing of English lecturers is mentioned as are last year's problems in the English Department. The Department of Art is briefly mentioned. Kruppa is quoted.
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Ode to Education MacDonald editorial "Ode to Education." _Daily Texan_ 18 March 1985, p. 3.
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Faculty Should Teach James Sledd discusses the occurrence of faculty endowments at a time when lecturers and teaching assistants are the ones teaching English courses at low pay.
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Department Plans Structure of New English Requirements Taylor, Suzanne. "Department Plans Structure of New English Requirements." _Daily Texan_ 9 April 1986, p. 1.
This is the second of a two-article series about the changes to the English writing program. Topics discussed include: the phasing out of E 306. the test that allows students to test out of E 306 (the ECT), changes to the Writing Lab, the addition of E 309, and the place of “technical writing” instruction after E 346K has been removed. Kruppa, Faigley, Kinneavy, Bertelson, Gribben, Ruszkiwicz, and Sutherland are quoted.
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Proposed E 306 Changes Could Cost Students More This Daily Texan article discusses the proposal to make E 306 an extension course for students.
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Results of Graduation Requirement Study Draw Mixed Responses Describes university, faculty, and student response to a study from the University Council's Committee on Basic Education looking at the effect of specialization in degrees on education in basic subjects.
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General Faculty Approves New English Requirement Discusses General Faculty approval of Kinneavy's University-wide English requirement proposal and critique from Sledd.
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New English Requirements Criticized Fisher quotes Sledd, Kruppa, and MEgaw in discussion of Sledd's recent 19 page objection to the new E 346K curriculum, which he believes is cynically motivated.