[Sfts-faculty] internal review of Minor

[Sherryl Vint]

Dear colleagues,

Please find attached the report from the internal review of the SFCS minor.

We are required to give a response to this report by *April 25.* Please
send me any comments you may wish to convey to the Committee on Educational
Policy by then.

They are recommending that the minor be discontinued, due to a lack of
successful building of an undergraduate cohort, and the ongoing lack of
resources on campus.

As you may recall, after we restructured and renamed the minor in 2017,
Nalo Hopkinson was to have taken leadership of this part of the program.
She has since separated from UCR.

A few years ago, when I was assigned to CAP, I also wrote to see if anyone
wanted to do the Directorship work for the SFCS program overall, but no one
wanted to. We continue to have no budget other than what the Director makes
available out of personal research funds.

If anyone would like to take over the Directorship now, I'd be happy to
have someone else step up. In the absence of someone else wanting to do so,
I'm happy to continue doing this work for the Graduate DE. GIven my service
burden as Chair of English, however, I do not have the capacity to do any
building of the Minor.

If no one expresses an interest in taking leadership for the Minor, I'm
going to reluctantly concur that the program should be discontinued. It has
a lot of potential, but without anyone putting energy into it, it will
continue to flounder.

best,
Sherryl
Sherryl Vint (she/her)
Professor and Chair, Department of English

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