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This article discusses alternatives to E346K after its postponement.
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This article discusses the amending of a document that limited the number of semesters a lecturer was allowed to teach.
Mentioned in article: Sutherland, Skaggs, Friedman
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In "Sledd Never Satisfied," Gribben discusses how English professor James Sledd, in a previous editorial, expressed grievances with the English department regarding writing courses. Gribben condemns Sledd for these grievances and cautions against trusting Sledd.
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This article, "English Lecturers' Jobs in Jeopardy," was published by The Daily Texas, and written by Pratt. This article discusses the passing of a set of recommendations that allowed English lecturers to teach "indefinitely," but without tenure.
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Dean, David. "English Lecturers' Jobs in Jeopardy." _Daily Texan_ 28 March 1984_, p. 9
Brief article explaining that the English lecturers may not be renewed in the coming year. Joseph Kruppa is quoted.
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Pratt, Todd. "Senate to Amend Rules for Rehiring English Lecturers." _Daily Texan_ 29 March 1984, p. 11
This article reports on the results of the 28 March 1984 meeting of the English Faculty Senate. Larry Carver and Charles Rossman are quoted.
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This article discusses that the English department faculty will be working 3/4 time in fall 1984.
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The 2nd article in a 3 part series by Laura Fisher on the concerns of English Lecturers at UT. Associate Professor Kruppa is quoted at length explaining the recent and abrupt hirings, and lecturers are reported to express their concerns over the hiring process and practices.
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Fisher reports that the university is still at least a year away from solving the problem surrounding lecturers; critiques Lesser's plan for failing to state that teaching improves with experience.
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Knox article in _The Daily Texan_ explains employment pursuits of some of the layed-off lecturers. Kruppa quoted at length.
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As part of a three part series examining controversies surrounding UT English lecturers' positions, the article addresses the use of student evaluations as the primary criterion for the rehiring of lecturers.
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An article discussing a new award for lecturers' teaching established by Dean of Liberal Arts, Robert King
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"Too Soon to Give up on E 346K" discusses how elimination of E346K will wrong the students who need the course to succeed.
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Wevill, David. "English Lecturers, Highly Skilled, Hard Working." _Daily Texan_ 7 March 1985, p. 3.
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The 3rd article in a 3 part series on the concerns of lecturers in the English Department. Fisher reports here, specifically, regarding their workload. Both Kruppa and Sledd are quoted throughout the article on the issue; Sledd makes a shocking statement containing a racial slur in an attempt to articulate a point about lecturers being treated as 'second-class citizens'.
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Fisher, Laura. "English Lecturers, Make their Jobs Secure." _Daily Texan_ 2 April 1984, p. 4.
Fisher recounts the history of lecturer situation and calls for a better solution than the one recently adopted by English EC.
An argument complaining about the reduction of English lecturer appointments to 3/4 time
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Nather's opinion piece complaining that E 346K, though a requirement, is not being offered by the English Department
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Ruszkiewicz, John. "Advocacy in the Writing Classroom." in _The Ethics of Writing Instruction: Issues in Theory and Practice_. Ed. Michael Pemberton. Stamford CT: Ablex, 2000. 23-34.
An article written long after the E 306 controversy and reflecting broadly on the place of politics in the writing classroom
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"Confusion of the First Class" _Austin American-Statesman_ 13 September 1985_ B1(?). Describes E 306 issue and conflicting interests of an R1 university.
A student writes to the advice column, to determine whether to take E 306 in residency at UT Austin
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"UT, A&M Face Similar Issues" _Daily Texan_ 1 July 2002, A1
Article is about the Laycock committee, created to address concerns about free speech on campus, but mentions past troubles, such as the E 306 controversy and quotes John Ruszkiewicz
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Letter from John Ruszkiewicz to Lynne Munson of the National Endowment for the Humanities forwarding syllabi related to E 306 controversy.
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Jim Duban's comments on proposed changes to evaluation of teachers, worrying that PC culture will lead to penalties for certain teachers.
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Proposed outline addressing the politicization of the classroom space with culturally conservative contributors.
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Karen Duban's book review of _Schooling in Capitalist America_ by Bowles and Gintis. Negatively inflected review.
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John Ruszkiewicz writes to William Sutherland (chair of English), saying he had no problem with AGSE members electing representatives to the FEPC, but he wants to raise three concerns now: (1) grad students who don’t apply to work as an Assistant Instructor consultant shouldn’t be eligible for an appointment through nomination; (2) the new procedure will allow Assistant Instructors to serve on course committees for which they did not apply; (3) there’s no reason for a representative from the graduate office to have a voice in the selection of consultants to course committees.