At 05:44 PM 5/24/01 -0400, annie finch wrote:
>>And, btw, congratulations, Eric!  Your priorities sound just right to me.
>
>
>  Also, another concern that I imagine we may all share and that I
>want to introduce to you:  I think we all feel that we should get
>more recognition for the service work we all do re creative
>writing--arranging and hosting readings and events, undergrad and
>grad curricular reform, review of thesis procedures, the shared
>reading lists, all our miscellaneous business.
>
>>A logical first step is to have our meetings formally recognized as
>>meetings of the "Creative Writing Committee" and to have that
>>committee listed as a real committee on the annual committee form.
>>I've spoken with Dianne about this a few times.  This last time,
>>several weeks ago, she was very supportive and seemed to think it
>>made sense--she remarked that other programs analogous to ours do
>>have officially recognized committees, and the faculty get service
>>credit for serving on them.
>
>Would you please follow up on this with Dianne, in your new capacity,
>Monsieur DCW, so that maybe we can finally check off "creative
>writing committee" this spring on that committee preference form?!
>
>Dear Annie and Eric:

>Second this suggestion, strongly--David
>
>
>>  Dear Cohort,
>>
>>         You will be pleased to hear, I hope, that I have agreed to
>>be the new and
>>newly-reunified Director of Creative Writing, beginning with the fall
>>semester.  You should assume we will meet sometime during the second week
>>of classes.
>>
>>         You might want to contact me by E-mail during the summer
>>with any concerns
>>and priorities for the coming year.  Top of my list is promoting the
>>program/recruiting of graduate students, plans for 226, and finding sprint
>>instructors for the spring.  It's also time, finally, to talk about
>>curricular reform.
>>
>>         Would whoever's teaching the graduate poetry workshop in the
>>spring please
>>raise his or her hand?  Has anyone made any plans for a sprint insructor in
>>poetry?
>>
>>         All best,
>>
>>
>>         Eric
>
>
>_________________________________________
>Annie Finch
>Associate Professor of English
>Miami University
>
>"Form is the wave, emptiness the water""--Thich Nhat Hanh
>
>Website:  http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~finchar/
>