Up to 150 applications for the two FAR periods will need to be evaluated in our department during the period from October 1 to October 15. We must decide by mid-September who gets this job. At a retreat last Friday, the 27 tenure-track members of the department who were present discussed this issue at length. In a straw vote, the faculty present agreed unanimously that, for this year, the Chair should do the job. While the tenure-track faculty debated the issue, the decision is not theirs alone.
All faculty have a voice and a vote in establishing the procedures.
Check your email Friday morning to see whether this meeting will be necessary. At the workshop, he made two presentations on integrating the teaching of grammar and writing. A copy of the journal has been placed in the Conference Room, 701. Jack Solomon has been selected to appear in the Marquis Millennium Edition of Who's Who in the World. Gale Larson was guest editor of Shaw and History , volume 19 of The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies , published by Penn State University Press, 1999.