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Lower Division English Policy Committee Minutes 3 April 1990 LDEPC meeting minutes. Items discussed: E 306 "Writing About Difference" course and textbook, standardization of curriculum and textbook at AI orientation, and a vote to accept the next year's primary text: Racism and Sexism.
Addendum April 4, 1990 Jim Duban asks that the minutes reflect his serious reservations about the standard curriculum.
In attendance: Brodkey, Duban, Fernea, Heinzelman, Kimball, Slatin, Fowler, Hinman, Villalobos
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Lower Division English Policy Committee Meeting Agenda for 10 April 1990, including letters from James Dubin and John Ruszkiewicz and a proposal from John Ruszkiewicz Meeting agenda for LDEPC.
Attached: letters clarifying positions taken in earlier meetings from James Duban and John Ruszkiewicz, and proposals from John Ruszkiewicz.
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Memo from Linda Brodkey to Lower Division English Policy Committee, 15 April 1990 Memo from Linda Brodkey to LDEPC responding to objection of John Ruszkiewicz to proposed E 306 changes.
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Lower Division English Policy Committee Meeting Minutes, 10 April 1990 Meeting Minutes of Lower Division English Policy Committee from April 10, 1990. AI proposals for E 309 courses were discussed, as were John Ruszkiewicz's proposals for E 306 Curriculum
In attendance Brodkey, Duban, Fernea, Heinzelman, Kimball, Ruszkiewicz, Slatin, Fowler, Villalobos
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Lower Division English Policy Committee Meeting Minutes 17 April 1990 Meeting minutes from LDEPC meeting on 17 April 1990. Topics discussed: Ruszkiewicz's reservations about the proposed E 306 curriculum on writing about difference, responses to these concerns, possible textboooks, and role of AIs in teaching the course.
In attendance: Brodkey, Duban, Fernea, Heinzelman, Kimball, Ruszkiewicz
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Hartzog to Ruszkiewicz Fax Attaching Revisions of Possible MLA Insert 26 February 1992 Hartzog's fax of her revised chronology of events related to the E 306 controversy reflecting feedback from Ruszkiewicz. Hartzog thanks Ruszkiewicz for his input and accepts his offer to send her full LPEDC minutes.
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Memo to Moldenhauer about the University of California Los Angeles Writing Program A report of the writing programs at UCLA and UCB to help the English Department Chair Moldenhauer understand how the proposed changes to the UT writing program compare
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Budget and Proposed Expansion of the Writing Lab to Serve the New Writing Program A detailed budget for extra staff, so the Writing Lab can serve the new writing program including E 346K
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Estimated Costs for a Printer and a Personal Computer for the Writing Lab An unsigned budget for a printer and a personal computer to be used by the Writing Lab.
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Letter to Linda Brodkey peremptorily refuting her MLA article about the E 306 contriversy Alan Gribben’s 3-page refutation of Brodkey’s account (20 July 1993), mailed to Brodkey (University of California San Diego), cc-ed to Phyllis Franklin, Executive Director of MLA.
Gribben addresses a host of misrepresentations and statements made by Brodkey, Friedman and others, assuring Brodkey that he will not permit her to repeat certain falsehoods in her planned MLA publication, while threatening legal action if necessary.
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Letter to Phyllis Franklin Re: E 306 Controversy A letter to Phyllis Franklin, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association, asking how long it will take for unfair portrayals of the E 306 opponents to stop.
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A Defense of Alan Gribben in the English 306 Controversy A redacted extended defense of Gribben's place in the E 306 controversy.
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The Education of Alan Gribben From C-SPAN:
"Professor Gribben detailed his experiences fighting 'political correctness' in academia in an address to a forum of the conservative educators' group Accuracy in Academia...Professor Gribben reported harassment from his colleagues and administrators after he began to expose the liberal bias in American higher education curricula he characterized as engineered by the radical left."
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Researchin' Reality A revised version of Gribben's refutation of Sara Diamond's "Reading' Writin' and Repressin'" (_Z Magazine_ February 1991)
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"Readin' Writin' and Repressin'" An article on the E 306 controversy, taking the side of those supporting the Brodkey syllabus
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Gribben Draft Letter to the MLA Committee on Academic Freedom A redacted letter draft refuting the portrayal of opponents of E 306 in a recent issue of the MLA newsletter.
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Gribben Letter to Ruszkiewicz Regarding Recent Linda Brodkey Reception A redacted letter to John Ruszkiewicz including an excerpt from another (unnamed) person's heavily redacted letter, describing Linda Brodkey's reception while giving a lecture on the "Troubles at Texas."
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English Department Meeting Minutes, 8 May 1990 Topics discussed: Various faculty concerns with changes in E 306 curriculum, Writing About Difference, Petition regarding changes in Sophomore English requirement
In attendance and speaking: Kruppa, Brodkey, Luedke, Hilfer, Marcus, Kearns, Frost, Lesser, Hairston, Duban, Fitzgerald, Ericson, Ruszkiewicz, Kimball, Worthen, Kidd, Voss, Kelly, Warshauer, Zuren, Kinneavy, Downs-Gamble, Heinzelman, Barbara Harlow, Rita Copeland, Kelley, Bose, Taylor, Bertelsen, Worthen, Velz, Rebhorn, Bump
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Lecture on Political Correctness and the E 306 controversy A lengthy lecture about Gribben's experience at UT from 1987 (when he says his ostracism began) through the E 306 controversy
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Unorthodox Procedures or Outright Violations of Academic Procedures in the Reconstitution of E 306 as a Topics Course An extensive list of violations with complaints about the new syllabus drafted by Gribben over the summer to replace the original Brodkey syllabus
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Memo from Alan Gribben, "What passes for Fair Debate?"
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Draft report on E 346K Social and Behavioral Sciences A report including an overview/history of the E 346K initiative, a description of the students who will take E 346K Writing for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, and a full description of units and assignments in the class.
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Proposed Textbooks for E 346K A course description with reading list and a handwritten note from Joe K[ruppa]
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Memo Announcing the Availability of Academic Development Funds for Curricular Innovation, 4 September 1981 Memo describing a new set of funds available to help faculty improve undergraduate teaching
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Memo from Kruppa, re: New Format for E 346K Joe Kruppa writes to Alan Gribben to say he agrees with the new format for E 346K Writing in the Arts and Humanities.