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English course descriptions, including a description of one E 346K offered by Greg Myers and published in the Daily Texan.
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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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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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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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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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This article discusses how colleges at the university are reformulating degree plans after the postponement of E346K.
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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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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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Shaw article in _The Daily Texan_ details undergraduate confusion over how to fulfill E 346K requirement without sections available.
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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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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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Muller article describes English department proposal to shift the teaching of E 346K sections to other departments.
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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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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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An open letter signed by many graduate students protesting their removal from all English Department committees
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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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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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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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MacDonald editorial "Ode to Education." _Daily Texan_ 18 March 1985, p. 3.
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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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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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This Daily Texan article discusses the proposal to make E 306 an extension course for students.
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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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Discusses General Faculty approval of Kinneavy's University-wide English requirement proposal and critique from Sledd.
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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.