DRW Digital Archive

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• Lower Division Policy Committee Description, 1988-1989
  A description of the LDEPC, its subcommittees, major functions, and duties of the director, associate director, and assistant director. The committee’s responsibilities and courses are listed as are its members and their duties.
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Minutes 15 November 1989
  LDEPC meeting minutes. Items discussed: variant course proposals for E 306, E 309k, E 314L, and E 316K. In attendance: Brodkey, Heinzelman, Kimball, Ruszkiewicz, Slatin, Fowler, Hinman, Villalobos
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Agenda 11 April 1989
  LDEPC Agenda. Items listed: E 306 textbooks
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Minutes 29 March 1989
  LDEPC Minutes. In attendance: Heinzelman, Henkel, Brodkey, Ruszkiewicz, Twombly, Slatin, Trachsel, Nehring, Piedmont-Marton, Weeda. Items discussed: TA/AI supervision Hand-Written Note: Corbett, Gatert, O'Hare
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Agenda 5 April 1989
  LDEPC Agenda. Items listed: Variant Course Proposals
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Memo Outlining Graduate Practicum
  A memo outlining the basics of an optional graduate pedagogy practicum after E 398T
• Variant Course Proposals Spring 1989
  Several proposals for variations in lower-division courses to be taught in the 1989-1990 academic year. Delivered to LDEPC.
• Bill McCleary letter to John Ruszkiewicz, May 8, 1991
  Bill McClearly, Editor of _Composition Chronicle_, letter to John Ruszikiewicz expressing support for Ruszkiewicz's position on E 306 controversy.
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Minutes 8 March 1989
  LDEPC Minutes. In attendance: Brodkey, Henkel, Hilfer, Rusczkiewicz, Slatin, Piedmont-Marton, Weeda. Items discussed: report from the Committee Chair (Brodkey) about her conversation with the English Department Chair (William Sutherland); policy for adding students after the fourth class day; 298T subcommittee did not meet; TA/AI supervision postponed
• Rene Williams letter to John Ruszkiewicz
  Four page letter from former UT Austin graduate student Rene Williams on November 11, 1990 to John Ruszkiewicz expressing support for the positions he took on the E 306 controversy.
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Minutes 22 February 1989
  In attendance: Brodkey, Heinzelman, Henkel, Ruszkiewicz, Piedmont-Marton, Weeda. Items discussed: TA/AI supervision, 298T practicum, 309L proposal
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Agenda 29 March 1989
  LDEPC Agenda. Items listed: AI/TA supervision
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Agenda, 8 March 1989
  LDEPC Agenda. Items listed: 298T practicum, AI supervision
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Minutes, 26 Oct 1988
  Minutes of the 26 October 1988 meeting of the LDEPC. Items discussed: Weeda's 306Q proposal, Supervision of TAs/AIs, Rebhorn's supervision proposal, grade inflation. Weeda’s proposal is approved. The committee discussed: the instruments used to evaluate graduate instructors; a proposal that graduate instructors apprentice for a year in 306 before teaching their own classes; grade inflation; a proposal to designate all 309M courses “Computer Assisted,” so a small lab fee could be charged. Last proposal is approved.
• Minutes of Senate Meeting, Department of English, 28 March 1984
  Meeting minutes primarily describe English Department discussion of hiring lecturers, period of hire, and tenure status of lecturer positions. In attendance: Burch, Cable, Cook, Carton, Cullingford, Gaines, Friedman, Gordon, Gribben, Kruppa, Lesser, Lidoff, Megaw, Reed, Rossman, Ruszkiewicz, Scheick, Westbrook, Wevill, Jarratt
• David Jolliffe letter to Departmental Senate, 4 April 1984
  Letter describes David Jolliffe's decision to vote against lecturer proposal and his agreement with Hairston's positions in her 3-23-84 letter to Bill Sutherland.
• Maxine Hairston letter to Bill Sutherland, March 23, 1984
  Maxine Hairston's letter to Bill Sutherland outlining her objections to the proposals related to hiring of lecturers and reduction of lecturers from full-time to part-time status, with copies cc'd to James Kinneavy, Neill Megaw, and John Ruszkiewicz.
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Agenda, 22 February 1989
  LDEPC Items listed: AI/TA supervision, 298T practicum, variant course proposals; variant course proposals for E309L (The Writing Process) and E309K (Writing About Science Fiction) are attached
• Draft of "The Lecturers: Victims of Both Systems" by James Kinneavy
  Draft of James Kinneavy's thoughts on issues related to the hiring of lecturers, submitted to the Executive Committee.
• Lower Division English Policy Committee Agenda, 30 November 1988
  An announcement and agenda for an upcoming LDEPC meeting. Items listed: AI/TA supervision, Variant text proposals; guidelines for variant text proposals and variant text proposals are attached. Included also is a brief report on the LDEPC’s vote to recommend that all TAs be allowed to apprentice in E 306 for one semester before becoming instructors of record. Attached: a memo from Weeda and Rebhorn advising all interested parties to submit their interest in teaching 309 to the office and further documentation about how to submit the proposal and university requirements for SWC classes. Variant text proposals are attached: Ingrassia (E 306), Grant (E 306), Madden (E 306). Other course proposals with handwritten comments are attached: by Grant (309K), Finley, Carver, Hall, Penticoff, Bose (E 314L), Madden (E 309K)
• Memo Relating to the Lower Division English Policy Committee Meeting, 30 November 1988
  A list of documents (not attached): Course variant proposals and revisions to the AI/TA supervision plan
• Lower Division Supervision Programs, 1988
  A full description of changes made to supervision of graduate instructors to comply with university guidelines. Notable topics include: faculty supervision and evaluation of Teaching Assistants, Assistant Instructor responsibilities and supervision; and the supervision program for new instructors, including orientation, E 298T/398T.
• Memo About the Constitution of the Lower-Division Advisory Board, 27 October 1988
  A memo to the AGSE, listing the committees that were folded into the LDEPC (the Freshman English Policy Committee / FEPC and the Sophomore English Policy Committee / SEPC) and further explaining that graduate instructors and assistant directors would constitute the Lower Division Advisory Board (LDEAB) to advice the LDEPC and to replace the old Freshman English Advisory Board (FEAB).
• Suggested Supervision Instrument for Lower Division English Instructors
  A form for faculty to use when evaluating Teaching Assistants in the first-year writing program
• Memo from Rebhorn to William Sutherland (Chair) About TA Apprenticeship, 28 October 1988
  A memo from Rebhorn to Sutherland (Chair of English) explaining that the LDEPC voted to allow all Teaching Assistants to apprentice for one semester in order to better prepare them to teach RHE 306