[Sfts-faculty] internal review of Minor

[Eric Schwitzgebel]

Dear Sherryl and others --

I am not able to step up and direct the minor, since I am only a
cooperating member and my primary research is not in science fiction, but I
hope it can be continued.  It is terrific that Sherryl was able to step up
to direct it after Rob left and such a shame that we lost Nalo!  But I also
understand if she can't continue with that duty.

I note that the recommendation is not that the minor be terminated now but
rather that it be terminated in the future if things don't change, right?

Best wishes,

Eric



On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 5:49 PM Sherryl Vint <sherrylv at ucr.edu> wrote:

> 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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Eric Schwitzgebel (he/him)
Professor of Philosophy
University of California at Riverside
Riverside, CA  92521
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