[CBW_Exec] CBW Exec Board meeting Agenda +

[Sugie Goen-Salter]

Hi all,
Just got back into town to find all of your postings of good news,  
both personal and professional. Congrats to Peter Adams and to all of  
you for the good things happening on your campuses.

Here at San Francisco State, we've had a boon year. This year, Mary  
Soliday has joined our faculty, both in our Composition MA program  
and as our campus WAC/WID director. We were also joined this year by  
two new junior faculty members,  Kory Ching from University of  
Illinois and Tara Lockhart from Pitt. And we have Jennifer Trainor  
who joined us last year before and is now serving as our new graduate  
coordinator. As a direct result of this influx of such talented new  
faculty, our graduate and undergraduate writing programs are changing  
in long-overdue and positive directions, and there is a spirit of  
enthusiasm and innovation in the air that's palpable. What a welcome  
respite from budgetary woes! Meanwhile, our integrated reading/ 
writing stretch program is humming along. The next addition is  
Directed Self-Placement as an alternative to California State  
University's English Placement Test. Implementing DSP is my project  
for the upcoming year.

On a more personal/professional note, I just came off of sabbatical.  
What a genius invention sabbatical is!! How delightful to  get to be  
thoughtful again, and to have a single, sustained focus....what a too  
rare and wonderful pleasure.... I have a new JBW article to show for  
it, along with an edited book prospectus and a chapter in a newly  
published volume called Generation 1.5 in College Composition.

Heidi and I continue to enjoy the right to be legally  married in  
California (we got married on June 25th for the third time...to each  
other!!). The California Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday to  
invalidate Proposition 8, which amends the CA  Constitution to define  
marriage as between one man and one woman. Prop 8 passed in November  
on a narrow margin of 52% to 48%. Based on the justices' questions on  
Thursday, it looks like they will uphold Prop 8, but that they won't  
invalidate the 18,000 marriages that took place since the supreme  
court's last ruling. So for now, we are legally married and will  
continue to fight for marriage equality for all....This summer, we  
load up our 3 dogs into our VW camper van and head off for the wilds  
of Alaksa. Can't wait....

And can't wait to see all of you in our fair city. Til next week,  
safe travels to you all,
Sugie







Sugie Goen-Salter
Associate Professor
English Department
San Francisco State University




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