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English Department Meeting: November 15, 2018

English Department Meeting Agenda

  • Meeting Date: 11/15/18
  • Meeting Location: B03 Humanities and Social Sciences Building

“Go forth! Be brave! Be proud! Be true!”

  • IUP English Professor Jane Leonard (1840-1925)
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Recognition Award

  • IUP has been recognized by the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators (PACTE) for the work of Co-Editor Linda Norris and Managing Editor Jo-Anne Kerr on Pennsylvania Teacher Educator
    • Linda and Jo-Anne have worked on the journal for the past 5 years
    • 17, Fall 2018 is the last issue to be published under their editorial supervision
    • Thanks to Dean Yaw Asamoah and Dean Lara Luetkehans who both provided financial support so that IUP could host publication of the journal

Rest In Peace: Stan Lee

  • Stan Lee (1922-2018)
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  • Stan Lee created Spider-Man and the Marvel Universe
    • Stan Lee Marvel Comics Reading Guide
  • Best Stan Lee Comics: A Marvel Reading Guide: “Perhaps more than any other book, the years Stan Lee spent guiding Spider-Man with [Steve] Ditko and [John] Romita encompass the elements of Marvel’s unique brand of superheroics. Nobody else in the entire stable embodies the everyman the way Peter Parker does, from his personal struggles to his homemade costume. And a single panel, the final panel from Spidey’s first appearance in 1962’s Amazing Fantasy#15, sums up the ethos of the Marvel Universe as a whole, in a perfect meeting of words and images.” (Article published on Den of Geek! by Mike Cecchini, Nov. 14, 2018)
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Thanks

  • To Chauna Craig and Emily Wender for coordinating the visit by Author and IUP English Alum Eric Bell
    • Oct. 23, 2018
  • To Dawnette Shellhammer for ordering food for our award celebration
  • To Dana Driscoll and Melanie Holm for their ongoing work as Job Placement Coordinators

Congratulations

To the following English faculty:

  • Chauna Craig, for giving a talk about her online teaching in IUP’s Second Chance Pell Grant program at the NonfictioNOW conference, and for giving two readings at the High Plains Book Festival in Billings, MT
  • Resa Crane Bizzaro, for being elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication
  • Reena Dube, for presenting on Orson Welles at the Stars & Screen Film and Media History Conference
  • David Hanauer for receiving a University Senate Research Award
  • Tim Hibsman, for presenting on technical writing at the EAPSU conference
  • Jialei Jiang, a CAL doctoral candidate and temp faculty member, for being awarded a fellowship for the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative
  • Matt Vetter, for winning a scholarship from the Wiki Education Foundation and giving two talks at the WikiConference North America
  • Lily Savova, for a recent chapter in The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning
  • Tony Schiera, a CAL doctoral candidate and temp instructor, for being reelected to the International Writing Centers Association’s executive board
  • Ken Sherwood, for an immersive art installation with art professor Bob Sweeny at IUP’s Annex Gallery in Sprowls Hall in October
  • Tom Slater, for his invited talk about June Mathis at the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana
  • Todd Thompson, for giving a talk at the Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference
  • Dan Weinstein, for delivering the keynote address at the Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing conference, and for presenting on calming minds at the EAPSU conference

Program News

  • English Bachelor of Arts Program
    • English 349: Bible as Literature has been approved for distance education (DE) delivery
      • Thanks to Chris Kuipers for writing up this curriculum proposal
    • Video Games as Literature course proposal has been submitted
      • Thanks to Mike Sell for writing up this curriculum proposal

Approval of Department Meeting Minutes

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

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.

Agenda Items

  1. Technology Updates
  • Zoom Pro Accounts
    • Zoom Pro accounts are now available for all faculty to use for online meetings
    • You can access your IUP Zoom Pro account via:
    • Email Folders
      • If you still have local email folders that you want to keep but which have not been converted to the new email system, please file an ihelp ticket to ask to have them converted by the end of Fall 2018 otherwise the folders cannot be converted
    • Dropbox
      • Increasingly documents will be stored on shared dropbox folders rather than the h: and o: drives
      • If you have not yet signed up for a free IUP dropbox account, please request one by logging an Ihelp ticket
      • It is very easy to link an IUP account and a personal account
      • Placing your files on dropbox protects them with automatic backup; you still retain all rights to your files
  1. LSE Celebration Writing
  • 19, 2019
  • Please keep this date open in your spring syllabi so that you and your students can attend the celebration
  1. Dissertation and Other Overload Payments
  • Please consult with Gian and Jackie Rohrabaughabout questions before emailing administration
  • Overload payment processing is often slow and generally is not finalized until the end of the year
  • Please check your schedule with Jackie to make sure the credits are correct for the semester
  • Thanks to Jackiefor all her work tracking schedule changes
  • Gian will start having Jackie sending out a schedule after the start of the semester once it seemsfinalized
  1. IUP English Newsletter:The Word
  • Newsletter Coordinator: Todd Thompson
  • Fall 2018 Issueis out
  • Please consider submitting something for the Spring 2019 issue
  1. Book Ordering (John Branscum)
  • We will discuss issues related to book store ordering
  • The Co-op Store orders limited quantities of course books
  1. Department Retreat Follow-up
  • 2018 English Retreat Notes
  • We identified 3 areas of need for the department during the retreat:
    • Workload Distribution/Equity
    • Defining and Weighing Departmental Priorities
    • Improving Department Climate
  1. Clarifying Workload Distribution/Equity
  1. Defining and Setting Department Priorities
  • We will take some time to identify key departmental priorities
  • Hiring for English Education was identified as a top priority at the retreat
  1. Improving Department Climate
  • Please plan to attend the English Department Holiday Party on Dec. 12 Wednesday
  • Thanks to Jackie, Dawnette, and Darlene for making food for this event
  • Feel free to contribute to the event

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 Wenderand 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

English Department 2018-2019 Goals

  • Strengthen Department Collegiality
  • Strengthen the public image of IUP’s English Department

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: Resa Crane Bizzaro)
  • DEC – Department Evaluations Committee (Co-Chairs: Bryna Siegel Finerand Emily Wender)
  • DPC – Department Promotions Committee (Co-Chairs: John Branscumand Jean Nienkamp)
  • DTC – Department Tenure Committee (Co-Chairs Jo-Anne Kerrand Judith Villa)
  • 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 Driscolland Mike Sell)
  • Placement (Coordinators: Dana Driscolland 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 (Web Site Director: Gian Pagnucci; Board Members: John Marsdenand Oriana Gatta)
  • 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.

IUP Events 2018-2019

IUP English Speaker Series 2018-2019

  • Speaker Series Coordinator: Todd Thompson

IUP English Faculty Spotlight: Mike Williamson

The Elephant in the Room: Conversation and Action for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the Classroom and Beyond–A Year of Learning and Growth

IUP Libraries “Angels’ Wings” Book Drive

  • Drive being coordinated by IUP Library faculty member Kelly Heider
  • You can donate a kids book to help with the drive

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