5:00 Call to Order.
Attendance: Alicia Sutliff, Jennie Joiner, Heather
Bastian, Katie Egging, Keri Behre, Angela Glover, John Wiehl, Jen
Humphrey, Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, and Leslee Friedman
5:00 Approval of Minutes.
5:01 Officer Reports.
a. Presidents’ Report.
i. Byron has approved roundtable idea regarding
discussing of voting rights, we are looking to schedule one sometime in
the early fall.
b. Secretary’s Report.
c. Treasurer’s Report.
i. Current balance = $375.
ii. Made $241.95 on booksale, only .05 was given
in incorrect change
iii. Currently all leftover books are in SAGE
office, feel free to look through them, anything not taken will be
either donated to charity or sold to Half-Price Books to make SAGE
extra money.
d. FY Liaison Report.
5:03 Committee Reports.
a. Graduate Committee
i. Change to Ph.D. rationale brought up in most recent
Voting Department meeting, has not yet passed, particularly the change
from being early in process to late.
1. If you as a graduate student have opinions either
way on this issue, you might wish to show up to next VD meeting (4/25 @
4, 4019 Wescoe)
ii. At the moment, all MA exams/defenses and Ph.D.
exams/defenses are given a grade, which applies to the exam/thesis
hours.
1. Byron would like to codify it that pass = A
2. some committee members feel that there are B
dissertations
3. Kristin brought up that the quality of the
dissertation is often dependent upon not only student, but also
committee
4. There was some concern that a B would harm both job
placement and alum willingness to donate funds to English department.
In total, it would make the department look bad.
5. Byron would like to see Honors numbers go down, but
have the A stand as a sign of a job well done nonetheless.
6. If you have an opinion, please email Jennie Joiner
with it.
7. Overall, SAGE felt that the pass = A plan should be
codified.
b. Academics Anonymous.
i. Thank you notes were handed around and signed for
those who had presented this year
ii. Emily Wicktor's time on 4/25 has changed from 12-1
to 11-12. Come and enjoy!
c. Advisory Committee.
i. Still working on specific requests re: the hiring
plan, for next year.
ii. Are creating committees for public and alumni
relations, summer institute, and MFA
iii. NLC committee has been done away with
1. In its place, encouraging ad hoc committees to
develop conferences
iv. Grad admissions committee being separated, with
GTAships and admissions being combined
v. Stiefel Professorship - any full Professor can be
nominated
d. FSE Committee (Lisa King's message in absentia)
i. Still revising mentor system
1. So far very few surveys have been received, all of
them positive
2. Please turn in your survey. If you feel there are
problems, they cannot be fixed without the committee having more
information.
3. If you've lost your survey please contact either
Lisa or Sonya.
e. Graduate Assembly. (Message from Matt Candelaria in
absentia - congratulations to Matt on the gaining of his Ph.D.!!)
i. Sign up for "Preparing Future Faculty" if you plan
to go on academic job market. Very helpful.
f. Lecturers/Readers Committee.
i. We are pursuing J. Hillis Miller for the Gunn
ii. For the Eberhardt we are in talks with Leonard Pitt
iii. We have contacted Gwendolyn Pough about possibly
coming in on the Chancellors Fund.
iv. Forgotten in meeting but added here: Eric Sundquist
is our first choice for the AB Lecture.
g. Professionalization Workshops Committee.
i. Last workshop only moderately attended, but the Q&A
was excellent and went well past end time.
ii. Next workshop 4/25 in the Olympian Room at the
Burge from 6:30-8 on academic publishing, please come and bring
friends. There's an ad in the Kansan, it is not limited to English
grads.
iii. Possibility of snacks.
h. Social Committee.
i. End of the year "night" at the Replay, probably in
back, 4/28 starting around 7 pm. There will be pizza on a first
come/first serve basis. Come and hang out, say goodbye to people who
are graduating, be happy you're almost done for the moment, that sort
of thing.
i. Supplemental Funds Committee.
i. Still has some departmental funds for travel. See
Dorice if interested.
5:42 Old Business.
Mabel S. Fry has been chosen. We are letting professors
know who was nominated but not attaching nominees names. Nominees can
alert the professors if they so choose.
Elections: Next Friday is last day for nominations.
Nominations to be sent to lesann@ku.edu.
I still need people for Academics Anon, Graduate Assembly, Library and
Events committees. I will hold an election if there is an issue of
contestation, otherwise I will simply alert people of their new
positions.
5:51 New Business.
5:59 Meeting Adjourned.