[CBW_Exec] New EB members?

Sat Mar 7 12:06:00 CST 2009

It sounds to me like nominations and board acceptances need to be on the actual F2F agenda, so why don't we leave the nominations in place, and discuss the needs of the Board and the discipline in SF, prior to making any decisions?  How does that sound?

Hannah

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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From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of Susan Bernstein
Sent: Sat 3/7/2009 9:52 AM
To: Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu
Cc: cbw_exec at tamu-commerce.edu
Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] New EB members?

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

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	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
	>>
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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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	>> [mailto:cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of tamu commerce
	>> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:59 PM
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	>> 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
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	> 575-527-7626
	> kbaca at nmsu.edu
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