[CBW_Exec] CBW Exec Board meeting Agenda +

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I LOVE this part! Congratulations, Greg and Hannah!

Over here, the news is good as well. A long story with a very happy ending.

Several of you may have heard my loud and recurring grumbling about a search
we understood we understood we¹d able to do last year . . . until very late
in December 2007, when we finally got word that the position wasn¹t funded
after all (even though everyone up the line had approved it). Sigh.

This year we were terrified the same thing would happen again, so like the
good do bees we are, we put forward the paperwork months and months early
and followed up on it frequently.

The search was very late in getting the official approval (December!), but
even so we we ended up with a fabulous pool of applicants and one hell of a
new Assistant Professor of English (Director of the Writing Center and the
Basic Writing Program). I can¹t wait to introduce you all to her and get her
folded into our community.

This is a huge step for us in moving the Converging Literacies Center
forward. And this term our new, integrated model for writing programs (basic
writing/first-year writing, the writing center, graduate coursework in
writing studies, deep connections with the library, community outreach and
professional development for area high school teachers‹an in service of
developing literacies in the 21st century) was given a shot in the arm by
the incredibly generosity of our incredibly professor Director of Libraries.
Via a digital libraries grant, he¹s funded a pilot program to the tune of
50,000 so we can establish a CLiC you can point to. We¹ve ordered class sets
of flipcameras, laptops (with loads of great editing software), audio
recorders, harddrives, tripods, and other equipment to support multimodal
composition. Tutors from the writing center are available to work with
students as they write with new media and they will continue to offer great
support to writers working with alphabetic texts as well (very important!).
I¹m teaching a graduate class called ³Writing with New Media² (first of its
kind) and we are using this course to stress test the CLiC project before
before moving from this pilot to the real deal. I¹ll teach an undergraduate
section of it next spring. Over the next year we¹ll be integrating new media
into some sections of first-year composition, with a broader new media
assignment to roll out across the program the following year.

You can see why we need a great new writing center director to push this
vision to the next level. I¹ll remain on board, now as Director of
First-Year Writing and continuing on as Director of the Converging
Literacies Center. We hope to renew our search for the Director of
First-Year Writing next year, so I can turn even more of my attention to
keeping these various programs in deep collaboration.

A great year! A huge one for us.

Looking forward to seeing all of you.

Best,
Shannon 

Shannon Carter
Associate Professor of English
Texas A&M-Commerce
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/

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On 3/5/09 11:10 AM, "Gregory R Glau" <Gregory.Glau at nau.edu> wrote:

> Hi, all,
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> News about me: we moved from Tempe to Flagstaff, AZ, where I now direct the
> University Writing Program at Northern Arizona University.  The climate in
> Flagstaff and at NAU is much better, in many ways.  I get to train and mentor
> about 50 wonderful Teaching Assistants, several of whom are presenting at Cs.
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> Professionally, Chitra Duttagupta and I ­ and with the help of about 100
> others, including many of you all ­ have revised and just sent the 3rd edition
> of the Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing off to Bedford / St.
> Martin¹s.  The last I heard they were planning an August 2009 publication
> date, but I¹m trying to confirm that so I can update you at the Board Meeting.
> I can report on our finances, too, and will bring the INNY plaque and the
> money order for the Leslie Nortis to the SIG.
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> Also, Duane, Barry, and I are about done revising the McGraw-Hill Guide to
> Writing, and the 2nd edition of that text is due out early next year.
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> Thanks, and I¹m looking forward to seeing you all soon,
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> gg
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> Greg Glau
> Director, University Writing Program
> Department of English
> Northern Arizona University
> Liberal Arts Building 18, Room 140
> PO Box 6032
> Flagstaff, AZ 86011
> Office: 928 523 6713     FAX: 928 523 7074
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> From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu
> [mailto:cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of Ashley, Hannah
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:01 AM
> To: Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu
> Cc: cbw_exec at tamu-commerce.edu
> Subject: [CBW_Exec] CBW Exec Board meeting Agenda +
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> HELLO CBW Board! Shannon and I agreed that we would try to make our Board
> meeting efficient and have the best use of our F2F (face to face) time.  Thus,
> we would like to move some of the stuff that we have traditionally done F2F to
> on-line during this week.  If you please,
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>  ON-LINE THIS WEEK...
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> 1.            Send a note out to the whole board on your good news  and
> personal professional updates.
> 2.            Check the agenda for our Board meeting below.  If you have
> additions/changes to agenda, please send them along over e-mail!
> 3.            Please note our SIG Agenda, as pasted in below.  The SIG is
> Thursday, March 12, at 6:30pm.
> ·                    Presentation of Innovation Award
> §                          Accelerated Learning Project in Writing (ALP) at
> the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC)
> ·                    Presentation of Fellowship
> §                          Leslie Norris, a doctoral student in English at Old
> Dominion 
> 4.            If you have nominations for additional new board members, please
> send them along over e-mail this week.
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> Conference on Basic Writing Executive Board Meeting
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> Thursday, March 12, 2009  -- 8:30-10:00 a.m.
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> Location--Meet outside  of the same room assigned to our CBW All-Day Workshop
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> CBW BOARD MEETING AGENDA
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> We will check everyone's contact information, on paper as we go around and
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> 1.   Introductions.  Welcome to new board members
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>         Innovation Award 2009--thank you to committee
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>         BW Fellowship 2009--thank you to committee
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>         Inny 2010; Fellowship 2010-- new chair/committee members needed?
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> 3. Basic Writing social justice policy statement--discussion, link to CCCC
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> 4.  CCCC 2010 (Louisville, KY)
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> o             SIG , CBW Preconference ideas
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> 5.  Basic Writing e-journal
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> o             Issue 7.1--congrats
> o             Issue 7.2--Spring 2009 ideas
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> 6. CBW website
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> Hannah Ashley, Ph. D.
> Associate Professor, Composition and Rhetoric Program, Department of English
> Director, Writing Zones 12.5 (www.wcupa.edu/writingzones
> <http://www.wcupa.edu/writingzones> )
> 551 Main Hall, West Chester University
> 610-738-0499, hashley at wcupa.edu
> "If you're not terrified when you are writing, you're writing about the wrong
> things."  --Dorothy Alison--
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