[CBW_Exec] CBW: Meet at 9 AM on Thursday APRIL 3?

[Susan Bernstein]

Hello again and happy Super Tuesday!

So far it looks like most of us are available at 9 AM on Thursday April 3--
so let's do it!  Kathleen and I will be back to you soon with a meeting
place and an agenda.

If anyone has serious objections to this time/day, please let us know.  Some
of us don't have funding to stay for the entire week and many of us still
need to make travel plans-- so Thursday morning seems to be the best
compromise.

ALSO-- looking forward to hearing which sessions you would like to review.
I'd like to send out a CFP to the CBW and WPA lists for other reviews as
well.  Again, let me know if there are any objections.

Thanks and best,

Susan

On 2/2/08, Susan Bernstein <susan.naomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings everyone!
>
> It's almost that time of year again.  2 months from today we will
> reconvene at the CBW workshop in New Orleans.  Kathleen and I will
> talk soon to draft an agenda.  Meanwhile here are some items for your
> consideration:
>
> 1) Executive Board Meeting:  Let's plan a date/time for this meeting
> before our dance cards get too full.  I'd like the propose that we
> meet at Thursday April 3 at 8 AM.  This date/time will allow folks to
> attend the WPA breakfast -- and will help out those of us who won't be
> able to stay for Friday or Saturday.
>
> If this time/date doesn't work for you, please suggest another.
>
> 2) Last year Kathleen and I attended a dynamite session on Mina
> Shaunessy's legacy at CUNY.  I believe it was Mary Soliday who
> reminded us that Mina Shaughnessy used to assign her colleagues to
> attend CCCC sessions related to Basic Writing so that they could
> review together important trends in the field.
>
> Kathleen and I agreed that we wanted to try this strategy for 2008.
> So we'd like to propose that each of us on the Executive Board choose
> at least one session to attend and to briefly review.  We would like
> to publish these reviews in a forthcoming issue of BWe.
>
> To find a session of interest to you, please complete the following steps:
>
> --Go to the CCCC searchable program at http://www.ncte.org/CCCC/program/
>
> --Go to KEY WORD  and type in BASIC WRITING.  You can also go to FOCUS
> and scroll down to BASIC WRITING.  However, KEY WORD will yield more
> sessions-- and happily there are a lot of them this year.
>
> --Write back to Kathleen and me by February 22 stating which session
> you would like to
> review.  We'd like to request that you not review your
> own presentations (wonderful as those will be!)-- but to choose
> something that is perhaps new to you or outside of your area.  This
> way we'll be able to cover a good cross section of the interesting
> work that our colleagues are doing across the country.
>
> Thanks so much for your continued committment to CBW.  Kathleen and I
> look forward to hearing from you soon!
>
> Peace and happy Groundhog Day,
>
> Susan Naomi Bernstein
> Co-chair, Conference on Basic Writing
> LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
>
> PS For those of you who don't know yet-- due to the confluence of many
> serendipitous circumstances-- I am now living and working in Queens, NY.
>
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