[CBW_Exec] New EB members?

Sat Mar 7 08:52:44 CST 2009

I strongly support more hands on site for the BWe and CBW websites.  Shannon
has wonderful tech support at TAMU-C, but having more on-site folks onboard
would allow BWe to grow in productive ways that would be very beneficial for
our field.

See you soon,

Susan

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Deborah Mutnick <Deborah.Mutnick at liu.edu>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm persuaded by Shannon's argument--both about the value of having the
> A&M-Commerce team report on their efforts to integrate BW into graduate
> education more seamlessly and having more colleagues right there to help
> with the CBW website and BWe. I also appreciate Kathleen's question about
> representation and think having three reps from one institution should be
> seen as the exception rather than the rule.
>
> Looking forward to seeing everyone next week.
>
> Best,
> Deborah
>
> Deborah Mutnick, Director of Writing
> English Department
> 1 University Plaza
> Long Island University
> Brooklyn, NY 11201
> 718-488-1110
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of tamu commerce
> Sent: Sat 3/7/2009 12:24 AM
> To: kbaca at nmsu.edu
> Cc: cbw_exec at tamu-commerce.edu
> Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] New EB members?
>
>
>
> Ah! Good point. I hadn't thought about that.
>
> How about perspective: Donna is the Director of Graduate English Studies in
> our department, which includes a PhD and MA emphasis in rhetoric and
> composition. With more direct involvement with the CBW EB, perhaps we'd be
> in an even better position to offer top support for graduate education in
> basic writing. We already offer one course. We see the potential to offer
> more extensive support by integrating basic writing scholarship throughout
> the program. Lots shows up in all our comp/rhet courses. But we'd like to
> be
> even more strategic about it.
>
> Tabetha will be directing our basic writing program, and she brings that
> fresh perspective and the excitement we see in new faculty.
>
> The three of us plus one other (Bill Bolin) make up our comp rhet faculty,
> and we will begin an extensive reworking of our PhD program next year which
> will allow us to rename/rethink graduate courses/names to better identify
> what we believe the graduate program at a university like ours can do for
> students training to be college-level teachers. Especially teachers of
> at-risk writers.
>
> Given all we were saying about graduate education in basic writing just a
> couple of years ago, this seems like a good way to make certain this
> organization has a very direct impact on the shape and function of BW in
> one
> highly accessible grad program.
>
> Donna and I are on the graduate faculty, of course. Tabetha will be within
> months of arrival. We'll make sure the impact is very real and then made
> available to the larger community in whatever way we can think to.
>
> That's a heavy representation from one institution, but we do have some
> precedent for it. Not three from any one campus, but two from at least two
> campuses.
>
> If we are uncomfortable with three, perhaps we can go with just one
> additional A&M-Commerce member for now?
>
> To be completely honest, my initial reasoning was really less strategic
> than
> I implied above. (though I really do stand behind all I've said thus far)
>
> Here's the thing: I mainly want some more of the A&M-Commerce folks
> involved
> so they can get involved with the maintenance of our CBW website and future
> issues of BWe. I don't know how Greg did it all those years by his
> lonesome.
> Whew!
>
> Thanks,
> Shannon
>
>
> On 3/6/09 8:47 PM, "Kathleen Baca" <kbaca at nmsu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Shannon and all, my only concern would be having three board members from
> > one institution.  Did I read it correctly that they are both at Texas
> > A&M-Commerce?  kb
> >
> >> They sound perfect to me.
> >>
> >> Thanks, from cold (but not snowy!) Flagstaff,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> gg
> >>
> >>
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> 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 tamu commerce
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:59 PM
> >> To: cbw_exec at tamu-commerce.edu
> >> Subject: [CBW_Exec] New EB members?
> >>
> >> Hi, all--
> >>
> >> I just wanted to put forward two more names for possible inclusion on
> our
> >> Executive Board.
> >>
> >> The first is my colleague and regular collaborator Donna Dunbar-Odom.
> She
> >> came to composition studies by way of basic writing in the field. She
> >> taught basic writing and directed the writing center at a regional
> campus
> >> in Indiana in the 1980s. She knew there had to be something more to
> >> teaching basic writing than grammar drills and sentence-to-paragraph
> >> exercises. So she attended CCCC and ended up at a panel on basic
> >> writing/reading connections with Mariolina Salvatore, David Bartholmoe,
> >> and Anthony Petrosky. She was wowed, as you can imagine.
> >>
> >> So she chose to enter the PhD program at Pitt to study with Barthomae
> and
> >> Salvatore, both of whom ended up on her dissertation committee.
> >>
> >> As she put it when I asked if she'd be interested in throwing her hat in
> >> on this, "Absolutely! I'd be honored. Them's my roots!"
> >>
> >> More on Donna can be found  at
> >>
> http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/litlang/dunbar-odom.asp?menuName=people&pageName
> >> =faculty
> >>
> >> The other is our new Director of the Writing Center and the Basic
> Writing
> >> Program (beginning Fall 2009): Tabetha Adkins. She's doing some
> >> fascinating work in new media and, especially, Amish literacies (the
> >> subject of her dissertation). Lots of really exciting work on ethics in
> >> ethnography and fabulously interesting ways to integrate the student's
> >> lived experiences into the composition classroom. At University of
> >> Louisville, she studied basic writing with Bruce Horner and Min Zhan-Lu.
> >> She'll have tons to add as well, especially as she takes over our basic
> >> writing program here at A&M-Commerce.
> >>
> >> Her vita is available online at
> >> http://tabethaadkins.com/main/page_curriculum_vitae.html
> >>
> >> What cha think? Can we add these two members to our crew? Not only are
> >> they both wicked smart and committed to at-risk students. They are both
> SO
> >> much fun!
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Shannon
> >>
> >> Shannon Carter
> >> Associate Professor of English
> >> Texas A&M-Commerce
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> >
> >
> > Kathleen A. Baca
> > English and Communication Department
> > Doña Ana Community College
> > MSC 3DA
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> > Las Cruces, NM 88003
> > 575-527-7626
> > kbaca at nmsu.edu
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