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This series is made up of administrative documents concerning the day-to-day functions of the Department of English, including departmental memoranda, class enrollment profiles, five-year plans, budgetary printouts, meeting minutes, and correspondence. This series contains a number of files related to curriculum development, including course syllabi, proposals for new classes and class descriptions, as well as revisions to the undergraduate English major, the Doctorate of Arts and the Ph.D. program. This series also includes a number of files documenting winners of the Leah Lovenheim awards, given yearly for the best piece of fiction or poetry by a University at Albany undergraduate. Some of the Lovenheim records date back to 1943. This series also contains materials related to institutes and programs administered by the department, such as the New York Writers' Institute.

This series is made up of publications produced by the English Department for students and the public at large. This includes "News About English," a pamphlet containing departmental course listings and advising information (1977-2000) as well as various student literary magazines administered by the English Department at different times, Including Primer and Tangent. Additionally, this series contains a number of external publications produced by people and groups connected to the Department of English. This includes The Little Magazine, a literary magazine produced by the Writing Program at SUNY Albany (1966-1994) and 13th Moon, a feminist literary magazine edited by Judith E. Johnson, a professor of Writing and Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.