English Department Meeting: April 25, 2019

English Department Meeting Agenda

• Meeting Date: 5/25/19
• Meeting Location: 225 Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Thanks

• To Dan Weinstein for presenting “Inside the Writer’s Studio: How the Art of Method Acting May”
  • When: April 24, 2019 @ 4 p.m.
  • Where: HSS 220
• To Tom Slater for coordinating the visit of Osama Alomar, author of City of Asylum, as part of the 6:00 O’Clock Series
  • When: April 1, 2019 @ 6 p.m.
  • Where: HUB
• Thanks also to English Speaker Series Coordinator Todd Thompson for all his work coordinating events this year

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2019 Center for Teaching Excellence Award Winners

Congratulation to the following English faculty who won CTE Awards:

• Dana Driscoll: Content Pedagogy Award
• Mary Stewart: Instructional Technology Award
• Rodney Taylor: Teaching Associate Award

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Congratulations

To the following English department members for their scholarly accomplishments:

• Kaitlin Tonti, Ph.D. candidate in the Literature and Criticism doctoral program, was recently named the Society of Early Americanists’ Junior Scholar of the Month
• Sukanto Roy’s (CAL doctoral program) research project, “Multilingual Writers’ Preference Between Audio and Written Feedback,” was chosen to receive an IUP Graduate Student Outstanding Research Award
• On April 13, 2019, Gloria Park and Laurel Black along with Mellissa Carr and Kris Lowrey (PhD candidates in Composition and Applied Linguistics) spoke at Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement at York University in Toronto, Canada
• Gloria Park gave an invited presentation at the Georgetown University Round Table (GURT) 2019. The theme of this year’s roundtable was Linguistics and the Public Good: Representing the Language of Underrepresented Groups. As part of a panel titled “Diversifying Linguistics: Working Toward a More Inclusive Field,” Park presented on “Preparing Transnational Teacher Scholars”
• Bryna Siegel Finer has co-edited a collection of essays of feminist perspectives and research studies on the rhetorics of women’s health advocacy and activism. The book contains a chapter by IUP Composition and Applied Linguistics PhD student, Marissa McKinley
• Emily Wender has published a chapter in the new book Engaging with Multicultural YA Literature in the Secondary Classroom: Critical Approaches for Critical Educators
• On March 15, Lilia Savova presented “Directions in Materials Design: The Local/Global Dichotomy” at the TESOL International Convention and English Language Expo held in Atlanta, Georgia
• On March 14, 2019, Lama Alharbi, PhD candidate in the Composition and Applied Linguistics program, received the Chair’s Memorial Scholarship Award at the Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• On Thursday, March 21, Friday, March 22, and Saturday, March 23, Peter Sorrell co-chaired a roundtable and gave two talks at the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Washington, DC.
• David Downing was interviewed on March 18, 2019, on the KPFA radio talk show Against the Grain, broadcast from Berkeley, California, and also on numerous stations around the country. Founded in 1949, KPFA was the first community supported radio station in the United States.
• A research team of IUP faculty, doctoral students, and alumni from the Composition and Applied Linguistics Doctoral program were recently awarded a research initiative grant from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. The researchers include Dana Driscoll; Roger Powell (IUP CAL alumnus, Buena Vista University); Jennifer Wells (IUP CAL alumna, New College of Florida).
• In March 2019, students at Franklin Regional middle and senior high schools and Indiana Area junior and senior high schools are learning how to create interactive digital “storygames” using Twine, a free, open-source software program that enables users to create texts similar to choose-your-own-adventure stories. The workshops are led by IUP English Professor Mike Sell with the assistance of Literature and Criticism doctoral students Bradley Markle, Shane Sedlemyer, Zeeshan Siddique, and Barbara Shultz, and undergraduate English education majors Haley Cook, Kendra Hughes, Emily O’Donnell, and Maddie Aloia
• A new Avengers team helped save English teaching at the 2019 Popular Culture Conference right before Avengers: End Game comes out: Gian (Captain America), Chauna Craig (the Black Widow), Darrius Cuerton (the Black Panther), Mark DiMauro (Spider-Man), Nicol Epple (Captain Marvel), Brandon Galm (Iron Man), Julia Galm (the Scarlet Witch), Nick Katsiadas (the Vision), and IUP alum Sandra Eckard (Agent Peggy Carter)

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2018-2019 English Department Accomplishments

We achieved some big successes this year:

• Held an English Department Retreat to improve Department Climate
• Revised the English Service Policy
• Finalized the English Writing Plan
• Worked on ENGL 121 Assessment (be sure to turn in assessment materials!)
• Worked on English Mission Statement
• Setup English Alumni Committee and collected alumni stories
• Program Accomplishments will be sent out in a separate email

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Approval of Department Meeting Minutes

We will vote to approve Minutes from the English Department meeting held on:

• Minutes for Feb. 14, 2019

The minutes were circulated by email and will be shown at the meeting using the classroom instructor projection station. A limited set of copies will be printed, but please bring your own copy or review the minutes ahead of time so we can limit paper usage and printing costs. Thanks.

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Agenda Items

1. Reporting Faculty Professional Accomplishments and Service for 2018-2019

• Please use this link to report:
  • https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRrkvyMMzpLHC2ftHlfVrVK_vSynKAlQJhuQCNu9i50qzCQw/viewform
• Dean Asamoah is asking for all faculty to report on their accomplishments in scholarship and service for the 2018-2019 academic year
• Please share anything you’d like to have represented from the dates between 1 July 2018 through 30 June 2019
• PASSHE policies require the reporting to prioritize certain categories of professional accomplishment
• Please feel free to use the “other” category to report noteworthy achievements from outside that framework
• Last year some faculty did request the ability to review their submissions. Unfortunately, IT was not able to implement a secure way of doing so. In case of an error, faculty are encouraged to simply resubmit the correct information. We will use the latest upload.
• Thanks to Ken Sherwood and the CHSS Digital Vision team for developing this annual reporting system
• The dean looks forward to reading more about the impressive work you’ve been doing to make the department,  college, and IUP proud again this year
• Temporary Faculty and Teaching Associates are also asked to report their accomplishments
• Deadline: May 17, 2019

5. More on English Graduation Ceremony

• Thanks again to Jo-Anne Kerr who has run our department graduation ceremony for many, many years
• Thanks also to Dawnette Shellhammer who always prepares our graduation program and makes other arrangements for the ceremony
• This year Dan Weinstein is coordinating graduation
• A Committee of Judith Villa, Heather Powers, and Dan Weinstein will review our Graduation Ceremony and Honors Ceremony to see if we can combine everything into 1 event

6. Proxy Voting

• Some department members have asked about proxy voting for use if they must miss a department meeting
• Gian asked the Department Elections Committee (Ken Sherwood chairs that committee) to review this question
• The Elections Committee reports that we do not have a policy for proxy voting; however, the committee feels that our policies on voting make such a policy unnecessary because for all votes, any department member may ask for the vote to be done by Qualtrics or other method
• If a faculty member cannot attend a department meeting, they can ask that a colleague request a Qualtrics type vote if they wish to be able to participate in the vote

7. Department Elections Procedures

• Revising our English Service Policy has led to some needed updates to our Elections Procedures: Engl.Dept.Spr.Fall.El.Pol.v.2
• Elections Committee Members: Ken Sherwood (Chair), Brian Carpenter, and Judith Villa
• Ken will take us through this document
• One primary change ELC is recommending is that the Department Chair appoint people on a one year interim basis to any needed committee spots whenever a vacancy occurs
• This will eliminate the need for the Elections Committee to run extra elections
• We continue to need people to run for committees, so please consider volunteering for something before the election
• Next year we can see if our revised English Service Policy is achieving all the service goals we wanted

8. Enrollments

• 2012-2013     15,379
  • ENG 100: 13 sections
  • ENGL 101: 69 sections
  • ENGL 121: 28 sections
  • ENGL 202: 50 sections
  • 51 tenured/tenure track English faculty
• 2013-2014     14,728
• 2014-2015     14,369
• 2015-2016     13,775
• 2016-2017     12,853
• 2017-2018     12,316
• 2018-2019     11,325
  • ENG 100: 16 sections
  • ENGL 101: 46 sections
  • ENGL 121: 19 sections
  • ENGL 202: 32 sections
  • 43 tenured/tenure track English faculty
• Indiana Normal School opened its doors on May 17, 1897
• Thanks to Jackie Rohrabaugh for researching these enrollment numbers for us

9. Hiring

• At our Fall 2018 Retreat we identified hiring for English Education as our #1 hiring priority
• The provost has not yet asked the dean for tenure track hiring requests
• Program Directors should discuss with their programs other hiring needs
• The English Leadership Council will review all hiring needs and make an initial recommendation in case we get a 2nd hire
• In our Fall 2019 meeting we will discuss ranking our hiring needs beyond English Education

10. Dual Career Policy Development

• ELC is also working on a policy for Dual Career/Spousal Hiring after reviewing a proposal that came from a subcommittee that researched the topic
• Developing this policy is complicated and will take us into next year
• Such a policy must not only be voted on by our department, but must also be approved by the dean and HR
• Currently, Dean Asamoah sometimes identifies special teaching administrative needs and sometimes directs hiring resources to meet these needs; In some cases he has also identified specific personnel for these positions in collaboration with our department
• Dean Asamoah has done at various times to address staffing needs for the Northpointe Writing Center, CHSS web work, basic writing, and MATESOL
• The dean has many budget constraints which limit what he can do in this area
• Faculty interested in dual career hiring should speak to Dean Asamoah to make him aware of any needs

11. English Collegiality Committee

• The English department has long had a committee to encourage socializing among department members
• That committee has held dinners at local restaurants, picnics, game nights, coffee and donuts, lunches, musical and theatre outings, Levity get togethers, and other events
• With declines in faculty numbers, this year the committee was put on hiatus since there were not enough people to form the committee
• ELC is recommending that now may be the time to permanently eliminate this committee
• Instead of organized events, the committee is recommending that faculty informally attend campus events together

12. Tracking Service to Raise Visibility of Work

• One of the goals identified from the Fall Department Retreat was Clarifying Workload Distribution/Equity
• Our new English Service Policy helps meet that goal
• Another important aspect of that goal was to identify new methods for valuing faculty work
• ELC is recommending that faculty self report their service to the Elections and Appointments Committee (EAC) once per semester so that service can be shared with everyone:
  • program committees
  • program subcommittees
  • department committees
  • department tasks
  • university service
  • service to the profession
• The goal is to keep us all better informed of who is doing what service so that we can seek help from the right people when we need it
• Everyone does a lot, but this service often goes unseen
• Tracking is not easy nor will it be perfect, but this would be a useful start

13. English Department Mission

• We will discuss the Mission Statement document many department members, including Gian, Todd Thompson, Chris Kuipers, and ELC have all worked on
• Proposed English Mission Statement
• English Mission Statement Feedback: IUP English Mission Statement FEEDBACK

14. Advising

• Please meet with your advisees before giving PIN numbers to them
• Please do NOT email PIN numbers for any reason
• Please have advisee sign an advising sheet (we are working to develop a new one)

15. Assistant Chair Election

• The provost has approved the department’s nomination of Chauna Craig to serve as Assistant Chair
• We will hold a Qualtrics vote for this appointment
• Chauna’s term as Assistant Chair would begin on May 1, 2019

16. Digital Indiana Initiative

• IUP’s Department of History is beginning a project to explore local Indiana history
• They brought in a speaker to talk about the Digital Harrisburg Initiative
• The project is meant to be interdisciplinary and will include mapping, recording local history, genealogical work, and digitizing photographs and documents
• The project generally grows out of course work by students
• The project also is meant to be a way for IUP to connect to the local community
• One important part of the Digital Harrisburg Initiative was having students write poems (or stories) about local places which connected both to the present and the past
• The Digital Harrisburg Initiative has generate a lot of positive public praise from community members and politicians
• If you want to participate, please let Gian and Scott Moore, Chair of History, know
• All participants are welcome
• Dean Asamoah attended the presentation and is enthusiastically supporting this project
• The IUP Library, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Journalism are all interested in participating, so hopefully our department can contribute too

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IUP Events 2018-2019

English Honors Ceremony

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Announcements

• The Word, our English alumni newsletter, is now available
  • https://www.iup.edu/english/news/the-word/
  • Thanks to Todd Thompson for producing this great newsletter that always attracts a high readership
• Please enter Midterm Grades by Tues., March 26
• The University Family Drive runs through April 20: donate at iup.edu/universityfamily
  • You can donate specifically to English funds if you want
• Please enter Snyder Report information before the end of the semester

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English Department Objectives

Clarifying Workload Distribution/Equity

• Gian and Todd have been revising the English Service Policy
• We will bring that policy proposal to the November ELC meeting for discussion
• We will discuss department service at the November department meeting
• This discussion will include considering combining/eliminating some committees
• Please send a list of all of your university/local/national/professional service to Todd for collection
• The ELC will discuss how to make faculty labor more visible and valued
• Goal 1: To have a revised Service Policy approved in Spring 2019
• Goal 2: To identify new methods for valuing faculty work in Spring 2019 that could be implemented starting in Fall 2019

Defining and Setting Department Priorities

• English Education is our top hiring need as determined by faculty at the retreat
• Emily Wender and Chauna Craig have met and will continue to meet to discuss curriculum revisions to help meet enrollment needs of both B.A. and B.S. English students
• We will use our first spring department meeting to identify other departmental priorities including curriculum reform needs and other hiring needs
• Goal 3: To have a list of department priorities identified by the end of Spring 2019

Improving Department Climate

• Gian will hold a lunch with probationary faculty to discuss promotion/tenure expectations
• Create an IUP English Faculty Success Guide
• Identify mentors for probationary faculty
• IUP English Speaker Series–coordinate attendance at these limited events
• Consider having a group of English faculty attend campus events
• Clarify promotion guidelines for the department
• Use an online survey to identify a list of items for which people desire more communication/transparency
  • Have the summer school committee review the rotation process for summer/winter classes
• Goal 4: Create documents in Spring 2019 and disseminate these documents for the 2019-2020 academic year

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English Department Reports

English Program Reports

• Liberal Studies English (Director: Bryna Siegel Finer)
  • Assessment (Coordinator: Mary Stewart)
• Bachelor of Arts in English (Interim Director: Chauna Craig)
  • Literature and Culture Track (Coordinator: John Marsden)
  • Pre-Law Track (Coordinator: Tim Hibsman)
  • Writing Studies Track (Coordinator: Tony Farrington)
  • Film Focus (Coordinator: Tom Slater)
  • Internships (Coordinator: Chauna Craig)
• Bachelor of Arts in English Education (Director: Jo-Anne Kerr)
• Post Baccalaureate in English Education (Director: Linda Norris)
• Master of Arts Composition and Literature/MA Literature (Director: Mike Williamson)
• Master of Arts TESOL – Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Director: Gloria Park)
• ESL Program Specialist Certification (Director: Brian Carpenter)
• GCORE – Graduate Certificate Program in TESOL (Director: Gloria Park)
• Graduate Studies in Composition and TESOL (Director: Gloria Park)
• Graduate Studies in Literature and Criticism (Director: Veronica Watson)

English Committee Reports

• Department Elections Committee (Chair: Ken Sherwood)
• DEC – Department Evaluations Committee (Co-Chairs: Bryna Siegel Finer and Mike Williamson)
• DPC – Department Promotions Committee (Co-Chairs: Jean Nienkamp and Dan Weinstein)
• DTC – Department Tenure Committee (Chair John Marsden)
• Summer School Committee (Chair Ben Rafoth)

English Organizations

• IUP NCTE – IUP National Council of Teachers of English (Advisor: Jo-Anne Kerr)
• Sigma Tau Delta (Advisor: Dan Weinstein)

English Publications

• Crimson Quill (Coordinator: Liberal Studies English)
• NGAR– New Growth Arts Review (Advisor: Chauna Craig)
• Studies in the Humanities (Editor-in-Chief: Reena Dube)
• Works & Days (Editor-in-Chief: David Downing)

English Department Initiatives

• Alumni Newsletter – The Word (Editor-in-Chief: Todd Thompson)
• Banned Books Week (Coordinators: Tanya Heflin)
• Graduation (Coordinator: Jo-Anne Kerr)
• Honors Ceremony (Coordinators: Jo-Anne Kerr, Jean Nienkamp, and Heather Powers)
  • Writing Contest (Coordinator: Reena Dube)
• Mentoring Program (Coordinators: Dana Driscoll and Mike Sell)
• Placement (Coordinators: Dana Driscoll and Melanie Holm)
• Web Site (Director: Dan Weinstein)
• Writing Plan (Coordinator: Chauna Craig)

CHSS and University Organization Reports

• APSCUF (Department Representatives: Resa Crane Bizzaro, Tanya Heflin, Mary Stewart, and Todd Thompson; Legislative Assembly: John Marsden)
• Center for Film Studies (Director: Tom Slater)
• DHC – Center for Digital Humanities and Culture (Co-Directors: Ken Sherwood, Dan Weinstein, and Gian Pagnucci)
• IUP Senate (Department Representative: Tim Hibsman)
• Writing Across the Curriculum (Director: Bryna Siegel Finer)
• Writing Center (Director: Ben Rafoth)

State Organization Reports

• English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities – EAPSU (Vice President, Conference Representative, and Writing Contest Coordinator: John Branscum)
• Pennsylvania College English Association – PCEA (PCEA President and Web Site Director: Gian Pagnucci; PCEA Board Members: John Marsden and Mike Williamson)
• This category needs more information, so please send Gian the name of any organization for which you are an officer as well as your title.

National Organization Reports

• This category needs more information, so please send Gian the name of any organization for which you are an officer as well as your title.

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Announcements

APSCUF Membership

• It is very important for all tenure track and temporary faculty to join the union. The cost is minimal as all faculty already pay roughly 90% of the membership due. But a strong union helps protect both temporary and permanent faculty. If you are not a member, please join as soon as possible.
• In addition, please consider joining APSCUF CAP which does lobbying for the union. This is the best way to influence legislators to support our concerns.

IUP English Google Calendar

• Please remember to email Dawnette to get all English Department events and key meetings added to the department web calendar
• Please check the calendar before scheduling meetings to help limit conflicts
• TR from 2:00-4:00 p.m. is a common open time for tenure track faculty members to use for meetings

Additional Announcements

• If anyone has an important announcement, we’ll use the last few minutes of the meeting to cover this