[CBW_Exec] CBW Exec Board meeting Agenda +

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Some great news from Peter!


On 3/6/09 11:03 AM, "Adams, Peter" <PAdams2 at ccbcmd.edu> wrote:

> Our big project for the past three years at Community College Baltimore County
> has been the Accelerated Learning Project (ALP).  ALP is a mainstreaming
> program which has unabashedly stolen many ideas from the pioneers of
> mainstreaming basic writers, including our own Greg Glau.  We've assembled
> these ideas in a configuration I haven't seen anywhere else and added a few of
> our own.  The results have startled even us.  We have doubled the percentage
> of developmental students who ultimately pass ENG 101 from about 27% to 62%.
> We do this in one semester instead of two and at slightly less cost per
> successful student.  My coleagues and I will be reporting on the program at
> 10:30 on Thursday, right after the executive committee meeting; I hope some of
> you will be able to attend.
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> We're very excited about the program and about having been selected for CBW's
> Inny award. 
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> Peter 
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> Peter Adams | Professor of English
> Community College Baltimore County
> 410€780€6513 | padams2 at ccbcmd.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of Ashley, Hannah
> Sent: Thu 3/5/2009 10:01 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!
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> 3.      Please note our SIG Agenda, as pasted in below.  The SIG is Thursday,
> March 12, at 6:30pm.
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>         *       Presentation of Innovation Award
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>                 *       Accelerated Learning Project in Writing (ALP) at the
> Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC)
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>         *       Presentation of Fellowship
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>                 *       Leslie Norris, a doctoral student in English at Old
> Dominion 
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> 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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> 2.  Awards 
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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
> 2010? 
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> 4.  CCCC 2010 (Louisville, KY)
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> *       SIG , CBW Preconference ideas
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> 5.  Basic Writing e-journal
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> *       Issue 7.1--congrats
> *       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)
> 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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