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Proposal to establish the DRC on grounds of inability to resolve issues related to E 306 with English Department faculty.
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Vick's short letter of 3 November 1985 to Ruszkiewicz discussing E 306.
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A completed form required to propose original E 309K (Topics in Writing), E309L (The Writing Process), and E309M (Thinking and Writing) courses.
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Bob Wren complaining about haughty composition teachers in literary parody.
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Sutherland asks Hedrick, Kearns, and Slatin to serve on the Freshman English Policy Committee 1986-7/1987-8 to help incoming Director Bertelson.
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Sutherland writes to tell Ruszkiewicz that Light German’s specialist assignment has been approved for Fall 1986. Sutherland also gives Ruszkiewicz permission to withdraw from the Executive Committee election.
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Hugh Strange's report on student-survey data delivered to John Ruszkiewicz. The survey instrument is included with questions asking students about E 306, its quality, necessity, status as a remedial course, and its benefit to the student’s college career. The student responses are included also, suggesting that they see value in the class and don’t think it’s remedial.
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Hand written notes on discussion with Bill Sutherland, primarily covering hiring and appointment decisions and an extensive discussion of David McMurray's situation
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A letter from Neill Megaw to the English Department Governance Committee regarding voting rights within the department.
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Neill Megaw letter to dean Robert King criticizing decision to remove lecturers from deliberative decision making.
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Fourth draft of article covering proposed solutions for the English department's "composition problem."
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John Trimble's summary of remarks to him by dean Robert King about the status of E 346K and E 306 on 1 April 1985.
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Memo describes Fonken and King meeting/plan regarding possible creation of the Division of Rhetoric and Composition (DRC).
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Letter and draft of thoughts on E 346K, the unpublished letter which Ruszkiewicz would later respond to in June 1985. Also includes article draft. Contains hand-written note addressed to Hairston.
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Notice of faculty meeting, containing unattributed (likely John Ruszkiewicz) hand-written note discussing possible creation of DRC.
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Manuscript version of Maxine Hairston's chair's address to the CCCCs.
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Hairston's summary of pertinent points from meeting with Ford Foundation in New York, New York. Meeting pertained to possible grant to support writing instruction at UT Austin.
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Charles Rossman's reply to John Ruszkiewicz letter from earlier in June 1985.
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Ruszkiewicz writes to Kruppa expressing support for E 306.
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Recounts meeting of E 346K evaluation committee 10 June 1985. Committee sets basic tenets for its deliberations and studies, according to this document.
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Maxine Hairston letter to Robert King about Fonken and Ford Foundation meeting and grant opportunities.
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Hairston writes to say she is glad that the 346K committee valued her Chronicle article, but they should fully endorse all the changes that she suggests in the article.
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Memo explains that Hairston was invited to meet with the Ford Foundation because of her article in the _Chronicle_. These are notes for a meeting with Vice President Fonken, reporting on the meeting and further explaining what the proposed changes to the writing program might do at UT and in the English graduate program.
Memo describes grant opportunities from Ford Foundation, need to retain faculty in rhetoric within UT Austin English Department.
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John Ruszkiewicz correspondence to Charles Rossman defending E 346K.
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Joe Kruppa's memo of 1 July 1985 to English Department on issues related to E 346K staffing and E 306 status.