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Smith, Mark. “TAs must often ‘Drag a Student Back to Sanity.’” Daily Texan 6 August 1976, p. 9F
TAs from various departments report their experiences and workloads. Sledd, Rush (English TA and president of the Graduate Student Workers Union), and Green (English TA) are quoted.
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"Rogers Fights Workload Rule: Professors Must Teach Set Number of Hours.” Austin American-Statesman 28 July 1976, p. A1.
Front-page article reporting that UT President Lorene Rogers vowed to abolish the 12-hour workload rule imposed on UT faculty. Rogers also requests more money to pay faculty who will teach a recent influx of students.
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Sharpe, David. “English TAs Criticized: Survey Indicates Inexperience.” Daily Texan 18 June 1976, p. 6.
This article repeats Sledd’s charge that TAs are not properly trained or qualified to teach the courses assigned to them, quoting from Sledd’s survey of TAs.
The article also reports two surveys of undergraduates, conducted by the Division of Teaching Effectiveness (June 1975) and the Measurement and Evaluation Center (spring 1975) are quoted, offering disparate assessments of E 306, one praising the course, one not.
Hairston and Sledd are quoted.
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Sharpe, David. “Faculty Called Education’s Enemy.” Daily Texan 17 June 1976, p. 12.
This article repeats the charges Sledd made in the March/April 1976 Alcalde article.
Abrahams (English chair), Hairston, and Rush are quoted.
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Sharpe, David. “Professor Claims Misuse of TAs.” Daily Texan 15 June 1976, p. 12.
This article repeats Sledd’s allegations that English faculty have foisted their responsibility to teach lower-division undergraduate courses onto TAs.
Lieb, Vice President and Dean of Graduate Students, Sledd, and Stice, director of the Center for Teaching Effectiveness, are quoted.
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“Three Points of View on Teaching Assistants.” The Alcalde March/April 1976, pp. 10-15, 44-45.
Three articles by Sledd, Lieb (Director, Center for Teaching Effectiveness), and Rush (president, Union of Graduate Student Workers).
Sledd focuses on the English Department, criticizing their treatment of TAs, their privileging of research over teaching, and their handling of 398T, the practicum for new teachers. Lieb’s article defends the TA program at UT, 398T especially, and argues that the research mission at the university does not hinder the teaching mission. Rush argues that TAs are dedicated and skillful teachers, but they’re exploited.
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McKay, Ann. “Teaching Assistant Program Undergoing Intense Scrutiny.” Daily Texan 4 December 1975, p. 2
This article recovers the debate about TA treatment at UT, presenting both critics and defenders of the system.
Sledd, Ross (UT Vice President is quoted) and Fonken (Associate Provost) are quoted.
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Teague, Pat and Ann McKay. “English Professor Criticizes Colleagues.” Daily Texan 3 December 1975, p. 2
This article discusses Sledd’s efforts to get faculty to focus less on research and more on teaching undergraduates in lower-division courses.
Rush (English TA), Sledd, and Roger Abrahams (Chair, English) are quoted.
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Sledd, James. “TAs Shoulder 60 Percent of the Workload.” Daily Texan 27 January 1975, p. 5.
An opinion column by James Sledd, arguing that TAs teaching two courses per semester carry the same teaching load as tenure-track faculty, even though faculty are mandated by the legislature to teach twice that amount; that TAs provide most of the contact hours with students at UT; and that TA workloads prohibit their ability to complete their degrees in a timely manner.
Sledd also complains about 398T being a sham course, while complaining about the national trend towards research and away from teaching.
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Megaw's "English Department Polarized over E346." in _The Daily Texan_ from 7 March 1985, p. 3 discusses how _The Daily Texan_ offers an important forum for debate, as well as the reduced composition requirement.
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Cunningham, William with Monty Jones. _The Texas Way: Money, Power, Politics, and Ambition at the University_. Austin TX: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, 2013.
UT President's recollections about the English Department troubles
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In this College English article, Sledd responds to a previous editorial by Thomas Farrell.
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Christmas-themes editorial criticizing political correctness in English departments. Yardley, Jonathan. "On Dasher! On Dancer! To Albania!" _Washington Times_ 24 December 1990, p. C2
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Editorial critical of political correctness in college classes. Leo, John. "The Academy's New Ayatollahs." _U.S. News & World Report_ 10 December 1990, p. 22
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News article reporting on Dean Meacham's decision to delay curriculum changes to E 306 p. 35.
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Editorial criticizing the proposed curriculum change for E 306, p. 4
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Editorial criticizing the move to cancel the E 306 curriculum changes and the decisions that lead to the cancellation. p. 4
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Editorial criticizing The Daily Texan's coverage of the controversy over E 306's curriculum change and faculty response, p. 4
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Bosco reports on the upcoming vote on a new English department governing system. Traditionally run by an executive committee of elected faculty from all ranks, the department's governing body had been changed to a budget council of all full professors after intervention from Dean King. Citing faculty desire to have representation from all ranks, Prof. Sutherland introduced the system that is being voted on—a compromise in which representatives are elected, but increased representation is given to full and tenured professors.
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Henson, Scott. "Kingmaker." _Texas Observer_ 20 September 1991, pp. 3-5
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"Campus Briefs." _The Alcalde_ June/July 1991, p. 4
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Editorial from a graduate student Assistant Instructor Fitzgerald criticizing the decision to not to implement a new E 306 curriculum.
Below, a letter to the editor from Professors Heinzelman and Saldivar criticizing the actions of other professors opposed to the curriculum change. Printed Editor's note says the letter was signed by 41 other faculty.
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Editorials from faculty and students offering opinions and critiques of the controversy over E 306, the campus discussion of "multiculturalism," and Gribben's calls for "receivership" of the course and the division of the English Department. p. 4
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Reprint of Gribben's letter to a member of the UT Liberal Arts Foundation recommending "receivership" for E 306. A printed editor's note at the top is critical of Gribben's stance and actions in sending the letter. p. 4
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News article reporting Gribben's push to give control of E 306 to an external arbiter, suggesting Psychology Department Chair Foss. pp. 1-2