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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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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 LDEPC responding to objection of John Ruszkiewicz to proposed E 306 changes.
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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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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'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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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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A detailed budget for extra staff, so the Writing Lab can serve the new writing program including E 346K
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An unsigned budget for a printer and a personal computer to be used by the Writing Lab.
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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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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 redacted extended defense of Gribben's place in the E 306 controversy.
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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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A revised version of Gribben's refutation of Sara Diamond's "Reading' Writin' and Repressin'" (_Z Magazine_ February 1991)
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An article on the E 306 controversy, taking the side of those supporting the Brodkey syllabus
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A redacted letter draft refuting the portrayal of opponents of E 306 in a recent issue of the MLA newsletter.
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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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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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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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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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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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A course description with reading list and a handwritten note from Joe K[ruppa]
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Memo describing a new set of funds available to help faculty improve undergraduate teaching
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Joe Kruppa writes to Alan Gribben to say he agrees with the new format for E 346K Writing in the Arts and Humanities.