DRW Digital Archive

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• English Department Senate agenda, 20 Nov 1981
  Items listed: Motions from English Department governance committee, Lecturer subcommittee report, teaching load credits (TLC), and English composition teaching awards; included are the motions from the governance committee to change the membership of the English Department senate
• Minutes of English Department Senate, 30 October 1981
  Items discussed during the senate meeting include: Telephones, lecturer subcommittee report, teaching evaluations, and grievance procedure. Present at the meeting are: Moldenhauer, Bowden, Duncan, Endres, Farrell, Prost, Heinzelman, Kruppa, McKay, Megaw, Meyer, Ohle, Reed, Renwick, Rodi, Ruszkiewicz, Saldivar, Simon, Webb, Westbrook, and Whitbread.
• Report on English Department Senate Actions
  A report on the actions of the English Department Senate meeting on October 9, 1981. Senate actions reported: removal of the English minor, complaint to the Dean about office space, and subcommittee on hiring lecturers. The announcement and agenda for the October 30, 1981 meeting are included.
• Tom McLaughlin letter to Alan Gribben, August 31, 1990
  Personal letter from local citizen Tom McLaughlin regarding Alan Gribben's position on E 306 curriculum.
• Letter from Sidney Ellis to Standish Meacham regarding E 306 curriculum, with Handwritten note to John Ruszkiewicz
  Letter from Ellis to Dean Meacham regarding E 306 curriculum with a proposed alternative curriculum, and personal note copied to Ruszkiewicz expressing approval for Ruszkiewicz's editorial in the Daily Texan and opposition to E 306 curriculum change.
• Letter from Texas high school teachers to Gerhard Fonken, April 17, 1991, regarding E 306 curriculum
  Letter from central Texas high school teachers advocating for a "traditional" E 306 curriculum.
• Lecturers: Fish or Foul?
  This article in the Santa Rita Express (UT Austin faculty publication), examines the English Department lecturer hiring issue.
• Sledd memo to English Department, April 8, 1984
  Sledd's memo of April 8, 1984 criticizing recent English Department decision regarding hiring of lecturers.
• William Sutherland memo to English Department calling for meeting to discuss lecturer hiring
  Bill Sutherland's memo to English Department calling March 28, 1984 meeting to discuss lecturer hiring issues.
• Lecturers, The Issues, by James Kinneavy, April 6, 1984
  James Kinneavy's perspective on issues related to hiring of lecturers, dated April 6, 1984.
• Ron Wilson: A Case For a Traditional E 306
  Murray, a freshman engineering major, issues a grammatical and syntactical take down of Wilson's letter to the UT president, which expressed displeasure with the faculty's rejection of a multicultural education requirement. Murray argues that Wilson's mistakes prove that E 306 is not doing a good job teaching students how to write.
• English Department Senate Meeting Minutes, 4 April 1984
  English Department Senate Meeting Minutes covering the issue of hiring/re-hiring lecturers. Attending: Burch, Cable, Carton, Cullingford, Faigley, Friedman, Gaines, Gordon, Gribben, Jarratt, Jolliffe, Kruppa, Lesser, Megaw, Reed, Rossman, Ruszkiewicz, Schieck, Westbrook, Wevill
• Materials on Lecturer Matters Provided to English Faculty Senate May 12, 1983
  Outside materials pertinent to the discussion of lecturer employment provided to the English Department senate for their consideration, including sample lecturer appointment letter.
• Linda Brodkey Memo to Lower Division English Policy Committee, 20 March 1990
  Memo convening the LDEPC to discuss E 306 curriculum and a shift to Writing About Difference, including her meeting with the Dean, and new AI preparation
• Ruszkiewicz Letter and Resources for Hartzog 5 February 1992
  Letter from John Ruszkiewicz to Carol Hartzog offering thoughts and comments on her narrative of the E 306 controversy. Hartzog had asked Gribben for comments, who in turn passed the document to Ruszkiewicz. For additional reference, Ruszkiewicz includes his 4Cs account of the controversy, one of his Daily Texan editorials, a Daily Texan editorial from student Geoff Henley, and James Sledd's response to Patricia Bizzell's letter on the topic in Radical Teacher.
• A Proposal on the Lecturer Situation
  John Ruszkiewicz's proposal for how to proceed regarding the hiring of lecturers. Ruszkiewicz suggests expanding the tenure-track faculty and creating a complicated two-tier system of lecturers: Lecturer I and Lecturer II.
• English Department Senate Agenda, 9 October 1981
  Items listed: English minor, Lecturer appointments, calendar of senate activities, Evaluation of English Department faculty, Teaching Awards for English Composition
• Report on Department of English Organization
  A complete description of the English department governance, including committees, their responsibilities, officers, and senate meetings
• English Faculty Senate Minutes, 4 August 1981
  Minutes from an English Faculty Senate meeting where topics discussed included: committee assignments and recruitment of tenure-track faculty for 1982-1983. In attendance were Moldenhauer, Bertelsen, Boose, Cable, Carver, Farrell, Flowers, King, Kinneavy, Krupa, Lindfors, Megaw, Renwick, Ruskiewicz, Saldivar, and Westbrook.
• Recommended Curriculum for Provisional Admission Program Students 11 November 1982
  Secretary to the University Council Kelley passes along the legislation drafted by Educational Policy Committee and approved by the University Council, informing the general faculty of its impending adoption of curriculum and admission revisions.
• An Amendment to the Recommended Curriculum for Provisional Admission Program Students
  An amendment suggesting that all students be required to take E 306, among other things
• Proposal to Amend Regulations Governing the Provisional Admissions Program
  Proposed changes to the university program allowing some students provisional admission; the proposal suggests that all students be required to take E 306 unless they've received credit for it elsewhere
• E 306 Assignment prompt and student paper ("Why do People Believe in God?")
  A complete assignment prompt for a causal argument and a student paper responding to the prompt
• Memo about E 306 Freshman English for Mexican Americans
  A memo from Sutherland proposing a special variant of E 306 to serve Mexican-American students; a handwritten memo from Kennamer expressing enthusiasm about the proposal.
• E 306 Freshman English for Mexican Americans
  A syllabus with optional units, assignments, and textbooks